Archive for July, 2010

The financial reality for families with disabled children

Children & Family

Contact a Family provides advice, information and support to all UK families with disabled, children regardless of the disability or health condition. Through a national helpline and family support service, Contact a Family provide advice on any aspect of raising a disabled child, including help with finances, benefits and debt issues.

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Charley Boorman on a childhood spent with dyslexia

Charley Boorman

Charley Boorman is an actor, adventurer and a writer. He is also dyslexic. He says it was his father, the film director John Boorman, who spotted the signs – not his teachers, who wrote him off.

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Brum social enterprises urged to support each other

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A new campaign has launched to help social enterprises and community trading organisations buy goods and services from each other. Shop for Change is the brainchild of the Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs (ISE) and aims to keep the third sector in Birmingham flourishing at a time of public spending cuts.

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The future is local, says commission

Community Safety

Experts believe neighbourhood partnerships are the best way to bring about the improvements needed to improve quality of life and safeguard towns and cities against climate change. A new report from the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) says a neighbourhood-based approach is the most cost-effective way to upgrade local infrastructure.

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‘OPINION’ articles wanted for the CN4B website!

Campaign opinion

Do you have a burning topical, social or strategic issue that you would like to share with our readers? Then why not submit an article to us for addition to our ‘Opinion’ section! We feature a new story periodically in this space, and it’s your space to make your points and be heard.

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