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Graham Bell Associate News
- Edinburgh festivals face cash crisis as SNP can't commit to Expo Fund September 3, 2010
- New evidence that economic recovery may have peaked September 3, 2010
- Tax breaks for games firms urged September 3, 2010
- No lifeline for the trams under Labour September 2, 2010
- Transport budget warning September 2, 2010
Projects
Dragons Den on Transport Solutions for Scotland: Getting Scotland to Work
The Centre for Scottish Public Policy (CSPP) held a fringe event at the SNP Autumn 2009 Conference in Inverness on the future prospects for the country’s transportation. Entitled ‘Transport Solutions for Scotland: Getting Scotland to Work’. The event took the form of the popular television series, Dragons Den, in which five key stakeholders in Scottish... »
Friends of African Nursing
Friends of African Nursing (FoAN) was started as an organisation by two individuals, Lesley Fudge and Kate Woodhead, who had family contacts in Africa and due to their professional nursing backgrounds, had taken an interest in the health systems in African countries which they had visited whilst on holiday. I have had no hand... »
Forest Gardening
Before the ‘communications age’ we had an industrial civilisation. Our capacity to invent and make tools took us to these advances. Before all of that we developed our agriculture – perfecting techniques of husbandry for animals and production of field scale crops, from grain through vegetables. Before all that we were hunter gatherers. »
Know and Love Quinces
Public demand leads me to add a section on our long term work to popularise the Quince. Quince ‘Vranja’ 2007 Cydonia oblonga is what we are talking about here, a ramshackle rambling kind of tree with large white flowers (with typical form of the Rosaceae) in the spring and yellow fruit look a little like apples, but... »
Cyrenians
December 2007: Have given some time recently to help the Cyrenians in Edinburgh develop their public profile, and build the capacity to do that amongst their team. Hope the input was appreciated and yields results. I’ve helped in projects for the homeless before, doing Crisis at Christmas in the early eighties and always assist... »
Scottish Apples & Apple Day
I became interested in Scottish Apples in the 1980’s. Apple trees are a real asset in that they produce edible fruit. They are also a model for creating and managing diversity. Anyone who grows their own will tell you about the joys of taste and seasonality. In an ideal world we would all enjoy food that... »
Neatwork International Limited
In 1988 my partner, Nancy Woodhead and I, with three month old baby Ruby, departed the wilds of South London for the Scottish Borders. We bought an old estate steading with another family, the McGurns, with the idea of establishing an intentional community. In a range of stone buildings in various states of repair... »
Edinburgh Junior Chamber of Commerce
I am pleased to be a patron of JCI Edinburgh. It says on their website: “JCI Edinburgh has been recognised internationally as the Best Junior Chamber in the world in 2003, 2004, and 2005. There are 6,000 chambers worldwide and Edinburgh continues to push the boundaries to provide outstanding development opportunities for young people in... »
Business Mentoring
Business Mentoring is a partnership between Scottish Enterprise (the national body charged with aiding business development) and Scottish Chambers of Commerce (the private sector’s leading business representative body). Anyone in business can apply for a mentor. They can be a business owner, a Director or an upwardly mobile manager (or one who wants to be!). Two... »
Development Accord
This is a work in progress. It started with a realisation that we had a very polarised debate on the built environment in Edinburgh. Developers were ‘bad’, history was sacrosanct. Whoa! Stop there. We already have the makings of a full debate. Who says what to whom? Who does what to where… Edinburgh is a World... »
