She Hopes to Change That. A young activist is providing shelter for stray felines while challenging many Ugandans' stereotypes about the animals. EDNA NAMARA, GPJ UGANDA Hoping to dispel negative beliefs surrounding cats, Ella Nankoma and her father set up a shelter...
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In 1997 the Robert Owen Group launched a co-operative school centred initial teacher training project through the Marches Consortium and in partnership with the University of Gloucester. The scheme rapidly grew and became the largest of its type in the United Kingdom , successfully training over 3,700 post graduates who now work in our schools and colleges with many at senior leadership levels. Alongside this we launched a Master’s level programme for trainers in schools and for former trainees and teachers to access as career progression.
It became clear that the absence of an institute of higher education in the Marches sub region posed a real impediment to developing research, seminal thinking and platonic discourse. We often ignore the valuable infrastructure that comes with a quality centre of higher education. The Directors of the Marches Consortium developed a Robert Owen Learning Academy in Leominster and encouraged many ‘hub’ schools to have satellite post graduate libraries for their ‘clusters’.
This is all now background history but our 1998 creation of “query” as a radical journal of left field thinking has now in 2021 led to the addition of this section to the Marches Hive website. We want to stimulate thinking, discussion and the sharing of relevant news and knowledge.
We called the original 1990’s journal query because our minds turned to the creation in the 1870’s of the Tredegar Medical Aid Society which started life as as ‘Health and Education Fund’. In 1920 Walter Conway , Aneurin Bevan and others formed the radical Query Club as a new development. The Club was a cross between a debating society, a mutual support group , a focus for sharing contemporary knowledge and a body set on advancing radical thinking to address the issues of the day. In those times adult education was very much in cells following on the model of the early Methodist house groups.
We believe the challenges of today in many ways mirror those of one hundred years ago and we do encourage everyone’s to engage with query and to share your thoughts, views, knowledge and understanding so that we can all grow together . Thank you
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A “TALENT SCOUT”
FOR RACIALIZED YOUTH CHANGEMAKERS
The Challenge: Montreal North is one of the most impoverished communities in Canada. As a direct result, it suffers from the highest coronavirus infection rate in the city. This health crisis exposes and exacerbates the systemic inequalities faced by impoverished and...
TIME TO BOOK……..COUNTING DOWN……………….
The Big Society and the co-operative contribution to Sustainable Communities A FREE virtual event via Zoom on 2nd July 2022 from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm. Following the considerable success of the Inaugural Lecture in 2021 we would like to invite you to join us at the...
Shifting Gender Roles — and Reducing Deforestation
The process is a slow one, but biogas digesters are quietly driving change in a Zimbabwean village. Lovemore Ncube demonstrates the use of the biogas digester at his home in Ntabayengwe village. VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE — When Chumani Sibanda-Ncube was a little girl,...
I started a social impact venture during a pandemic.
Here are three things I learned For so many of us, the pandemic was a chance to revisit our passions, ambitions and dreams for the future. For me, it was also a chance to try starting my own enterprise – a social impact venture in the education sector. ...
BUILDING SKILLS, STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY
The Challenge: Social isolation is a real, and growing, risk to Canadians’ wellbeing. More and more of us live alone, while opportunities for institutionalized community gatherings have steadily declined. In Atlantic Canada, a welcome increase in immigration also...
A special centenary – the first female chair of Co-op Congress
Ruth Cohen looks at the achievements of Margaret Llewelyn Davies and the Women’s Co-operative Guild One hundred years ago, in 1922, something quite unheard of took place at the UK’s annual Co-operative Congress. A banner headline in the then-weekly Co-operative News...
Playground for the New Economy: Stir to Action gets ready for its festival
Preview of 'a three-day residential setting for people to build and form relationships, make connections, and challenge ourselves as a sector' Among the many summer festivals taking place, the Playground for the New Economy is something a little different....
COUNTING DOWN……………….
The Big Society and the co-operative contribution to Sustainable Communities A FREE virtual event via Zoom on 2nd July 2022 from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm. Following the considerable success of the Inaugural Lecture in 2021 we would like to invite you to join us at the...
Shrub low-carbon co-op launches £8,000 crowdfunder
The Edinburgh community organisation needs match-funding to secure a lottery grant to support its sustainability projects A community co-op in Edinburgh which is working to build a low-carbon society has launched an £8,000 crowdfunder to enable to access National...
