…improvements delivered by these communities are many and varied. Communities involved have set up football clubs, support facilities, created community gardens, opened community hubs, increased work-related skills, improved public transport,…
Mental Health: What Wales’ Further Education sector can learn from Slovenia
…several key strategic projects in Slovenia, to understand how they get their nation moving; and experience the benefits movement brings to the country at large and how this can be…
IWA Analysis: The contribution of business to a just energy transition with Wales & West Utilities
…will LEAPs lead to fairer outcomes for economically disadvantaged and marginalised communities? There is evidently scope for greater engagement with the community energy sector to understand the role community owned…
IWA Analysis: Building the Democratic Puzzle – MSs vote to support Senedd Reform
…with comparable democratic nations, not merely amongst other parts of the UK, but on a global level. The Senedd now oversees a budget of over £23 billion. It can create…
Urgent need for clarity on future of UK Shared Prosperity Fund
…for economically inactive people. If the fund ceases, then where will the money come from to support those who remain economically inactivity? When the fund was first made available in…
Wales’ universities hold the keys to unlocking our future potential
…cover the cost of teaching home undergraduates or research and innovation activity. In real terms, the tuition fee is now worth around £6k per head in 2012 prices, but costs…
LONG READ: What Unites Us
…in lace-making and dress-making with the Unemployed Women Sub-Committee and Technical Instruction Committee set up by the Cardiff town council. Various aspects of finding work for the refugees were also…
Citations roundup: Our work debated in the Senedd and the House of Lords
…above 5MW to have between 5 and 33% of community ownership, noting: ‘We have opted for an amendment on regulation-making powers to specify a percentage of local or community ownership…
Older Not Colder: Tackling Fuel Poverty Among Older People in Wales
…and interconnected puzzle. A UK Government commitment to a social tariff is vital, to systemically tackle the energy crisis and to show an understanding of the challenges older people are…