Community

Grow Wild has a number of small grants available for community groups which are trying to plant up community sites with native plants. The project may involve turning round a neglected or rundown area or turning a new space into ...

So there’s this company learndirect, and it says it’s a “a truly national provider […] with 400 delivery locations”, which apparently gives it

The empty slogans trip off the tongue: it’s the poor who are bearing the brunt of austerity… women suffer disproportionately from the cuts…

Beckton- based Richard House Children’s Hospice has won a gold medal at the London Garden Society awards for the second year running. The repeat victory came in the “small garden” category.   Richard House supports children and young adults who ...

Oxfam’s seventh annual “Oxjam” music festival takes place throughout next month – with warm-up gigs taking place in the last days of September. The main events in October will be run by volunteers: over 6,000 of them, working in over ...

A couple of centuries ago, do-gooders would wander round the East End on a Sunday (flower posies held to their noses to ward off the stench of the poor), to

Councillors in London will enjoy an extra three weeks in office this electoral cycle, with the announcement that the 2014 elections will be held on

The Conservative-led Coalition Government has defended its controversial “welfare reforms” on the basis that most welfare benefit claimants are undeserving, work-shy scroungers who have been living a life of luxury funded by the hardworking tax-payer. Back on planet earth, the ...

Aminur Nazir Khan, 19, from Robin Hood Gardens has been charged with the murder of Ajmol Alom... Why?

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