18 September 2009

FoDL: Monday 21 September: How to get the government to improve your community!

Monday 21 September

DURNING LIBRARY

167 Kennington Lane SE11 4HF (020 7926 8682)

6.45 for 7.15pm

All welcome

Free admission

Suggested donation £2

Refreshments

How to get the government to improve your community!

Not everyone has even heard of a newly-passed law that set up a ‘bottom up’ process for communities to drive government action to create all sorts of benefits for their area. The Sustainable Communities Act has been called “the most radical new law for a century”. Learn how to use it! Steve Shaw, national co-ordinator of the Local Works coalition, explains how it works.

Steve is a specialist in grass roots mobilisation and citizen outreach. He has worked on several national campaigns, most notably in his five years as National Co-ordinator of the Local Works coalition. To bring in the Sustainable Communities Act he organised over 100 public meetings and built a broad coalition of over 90 national organisations. Now 100 principal councils are using the new process of governance it enshrines.

Steve has also worked as a coalition co-ordinator on the successful Climate Change Act campaign and the Fuel Poverty Bill campaign, and for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Intelligent Energy.

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