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100 years of pioneering philanthropy

In the centenary year of the Carnegie UK Trust, chief executive Martyn Evans looks back over its 100 years of innovative social change and argues for the need for greater partnerships to tackle today’s social issues.

Q. Andrew Carnegie’s purpose in establishing the Trust in 1913 was ‘the improvement of the wellbeing of the masses of the people of Great Britain and Ireland’. How has the trust stuck to and developed this purpose in the last 100 years?

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government

Ideas for Change: A Local Endowment Fund

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Philanthropy goes local

Communities Finance Good Local Economics

Lessons from Holland: Helping citizens with debt management pays off

Communities Finance Good Local Economics Housing Local Government

Roads or housing? Which is your priority?

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government

Economics and governance for city bounce

Communities Finance Good Local Economics Regeneration

Making community economic development mainstream

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government

Are we letting a good crisis go to waste?

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Regional growth fund jobs: Strangled by red tape?

The regional growth fund was aimed at kick-starting private enterprise and rebalancing the economy. But as applicants struggle with bureaucracy and high costs how many jobs will it realise? Sarah Longlands reports.

Communities secretary Eric Pickles famously declared, ‘If you want to rebuild a fragile national economy, you don’t strangle business with red tape and let bloated regional quangos make all the decisions’. But he may live to eat his words as evidence emerges of the difficulties applicants to the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) have faced in securing their final awards from government.