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The next CLT Practitioner's Residential Seminar is kindly being hosted by Cornwall CLT Ltd and Carnegie partner, the Eden Project in November. Looking into themes such as Housing and Beyond; How Housing Associations can assist CLTs and Accessing Appropriate Finance, the seminar also offers a study visit to some of the operating CLTs in Cornwall.

We are very keen to welcome newcomers to CLTs to this seminar and will run sessions like: 'Everything you need to know about CLT’s but were afraid to ask' and 'Involving Your Community.'

Carnegie UK Trust partner's Falkland Centre for Stewardship are running the Big Tent- Scotland's Environmental Festival on the 23th to 25th July this year. 

Set on the beautiful landscape of Falkland Estate in the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland, Big Tent is a fantastic weekend of music, arts and family activities mixed with stimulating debates on social and green issues. Wash this all down with incredible food and drink in the One Planet Food Village which celebrates the best in organic food and drink and you have a very special weekend.

Community land trusts deliver community aspirations. They offer an affordable way to provide housing and locally-owned business and community buildings, using a new set of legal, financial and resource management tools that are relevant to a wide range of existing as well as new organisations

Organised by New Start, Community Finance Soutions and Carnegie UK Trust -  'Solving Economic Development and Housing Needs' will offer an opportunity to hear back from leading policymakers and to learn from Community Land Trusts (CLTs) on the ground. It will demonstrate how CLTs can be a sustainable solution in a wide range of settings - encompassing housing, economic development, community empowerment and co-operative development.

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

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.

This event will be hosted by Elin Jones AM, Minister for Rural Affairs and is being co-ordinated by the Welsh Council for Voluntary Action. Carnegie Trust UK has enabled two important 3 year action research pilots to be carried out on how community-led planning is a key component for Rural Can-Do Communities in Wales.  The work by PLANED and PAVO in community-led planning is exemplary in the UK.

This is the last in the Zerocarbonbritain2 seminar series hosted by Carnegie partner's the Centre for Alternative Technology.

Held on the 30th September, this seminar explores how Britain can invest in the necessary transition, on a similar scale to bank bailouts; we can decrease our energy waste and meet the real demands through powering up renewable sources. Such visionary measures will not only stimulate the economy through increased jobs they will create a very tangible dividend of energy saved and generated. This final seminar will look at both international and national frameworks that can be adopted to bring about the level of change required.

In the last thirty years we have seen massive upheavals in social structures across the globe: the collapse of major industries, the rise and fall of ideologies and governments, the shifts of economic power, and changes to the way we live that were unimaginable thirty years ago.

Change is a constant. Yet communities across the UK still struggle to come to terms with the loss of their primary industries and identities: fishing ports with no boats, mining towns with no mines, and market towns with no market.