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Carnegie UK Trust has long championed the needs of rural communities across the UK and Ireland. The provision of affordable housing has proved to be the most pressing issue in rural England. Assisted by funds from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), Carnegie UK Trust, in partnership with Community Finance Solutions, are issuing invitations to tender for organisations to act as the Community Land Trust National Facilitation Body.

Community Finance Solutions have developed a short Community Land Trust training course in conjunction with Carnegie UK Trust aimed at providing communities and their key partners with the tools to set up and run a successful Community Land Trust housing project.

 

Trafford Hall, Cheshire - 21st to 22nd April 2010

Carnegie UK Trust in partnership with Community Finance Solutions will be running this seminar in April 2010. This is being funded through the Department for Communities and Local Government Empowerment Fund under the strand 'Community Involvement in Planning.' This seminar aims to provide a learning opportunity for CLT Practitioners and gives a chance to share skills and gain support and inspiration. The full programme is attached below. If you would like to book a place at the seminar please contact Kirsty Tait: kirsty@carnegieuk.org

Carnegie UK Trust has long championed the needs of rural communities across the UK and Ireland. The provision of affordable housing has proved to be the most pressing issue in rural England.

November 2009 to April 2010

‘We have recognised that the most important elements driving regeneration are people-based: ideas, attitudes, culture and narratives. This is a hopeful message in some ways because investing in people is cheaper than huge infrastructure projects – but it is much harder to do and to justify. Our research points to the need to redress the balance of regeneration programmes, away from expensive capital projects to investment in locally inspired action.’

A Manifesto for Rural Communities- Inspiring Community Innovation

Over 100 delegates enrolled in the fifth Carnegie Rural Convention which was held in Kendal, Cumbria on November 23rd and November 24th, 2009. In the end 96 individuals actually attended: a remarkable turnout in view of the fact that the event coincided with the major flooding in Cumbria.

Monday 23rd to Tuesday 24th November 2009- Castle Green Hotel, Kendal, Cumbria

Carnegie's Annual Rural Convention is an extraordinary networking event for rural activists, professionals and policy-makers.  This programme brings together experts, pioneers and fieryspirits from across the UK and Ireland (and beyond.)

This year’s convention focuses on mixing the insights from the Carnegie Rural Programme (the recently completed Rural Action Research Programme and Fieryspirits Community of Practice) with the on the ground delivery of the European funded LEADER programme. We want to open up some of the big issues – to see how local action might address themes such as climate change, food and farming, community action planning, building local resilience and asset acquisition and development.

Thursday 19th November, St Martins in the Fields, London

The International Association for Community Development (IACD) in partnership with Carnegie UK Trust is launching a collaborative inquiry process into asset-based approaches to community development. This launch event will explore the applicability, challenges and potential of asset-based approaches to community development in the UK/Irish context without losing sight of the global connections.

Wednesday 21st October, St Martins in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London

London 21 October- The experiences of pioneering rural communities in championing sustainable lifestyles can inspire neighbourhoods everywhere according to a report published today by the Carnegie UK Trust, building on evidence gathered through a collaboration with Big Lottery Fund and forty-four organisations and communities on the front line.

The rural programme of the Carnegie UK Trust organised a seminar on “Protected Landscapes- Do National Parks Deliver for the People?” at the Festival of Politics held in the Scottish Parliament on August 22nd, 2009. Vigorously chaired by Lesley Riddoch, the  sixty strong seminar gave a good airing to the debate on whether national parks in Scotland have delivered for the people.