by Alison Seabrooke | Oct 15, 2013 | CDF
This summer, out of the blue, I received an invitation to attend the Remaking Cities Congress in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I could only surmise how the invitation had found me. On the face of it, it appeared to be very much about buildings and the urban...
by Alison Seabrooke | May 31, 2013 | CDF
Cuts to welfare payments could deal another blow to struggling local economies, with the Government’s reform programme, which aims to move people off benefit and into jobs, taking an estimated £19 billion a year out of working age social security between now and 2015....
by Alison Seabrooke | Apr 30, 2013 | CDF
You may – or may not – know that CDF has been a grant funder for nearly 15 years and during this time we have provided funding to communities on behalf of many Government Departments. These include the Cabinet Office, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural...
by Alison Seabrooke | Feb 28, 2013 | CDF
The effects of the financial crisis on local communities The shock waves of the financial crisis are still being felt in our local communities. It is estimated that over four million individuals are borrowing from lenders charging interest rates of between 450% and...
by Alison Seabrooke | Dec 13, 2012 | CDF
Many of you will know that I am a trustee of Local Trust, the organisation running the Big Local project. And some of you may also know that I lived in Selby District in North Yorkshire for 19 years and both me and my family worked, shopped and socialised in the town;...
by Alison Seabrooke | Oct 30, 2012 | CDF
Over the last six months I have been party to events, discussions and insights into projects across the country that are working with young people who have tough lives and difficult circumstances. These young people will almost all live in areas which lack investment...
