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Blue Spaces - Wales, Mannau Glas – Cymru: Call for expressions of interest
Blue Spaces – Wales is a new initiative to support imaginative approaches to looking after local freshwaters – rivers, streams, lakes, canals and ponds. As part of this, we're launching an open call for ideas and projects in Wales.
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Working in partnership to support Blue Spaces in the UK
Esmée’s Freshwater Partnerships Development Manager, Jenny Wheeldon, shares our plans for a Blue Spaces programme to support people and organisations to take imaginative approaches to looking after their freshwater environments.
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Reflections on the Commission on Culture and Local Government
Following the publication of the Commission on Culture and Local Government’s final report, Cornerstones of Culture, Veda Harrison, Esmée’s Director of Creative, Confident Communities and A Fairer Future, shares her reflections.
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Healthy UK seas and thriving coastal communities
Jenny Dadd, Funding Manager and Esmée's lead on our fishing in tandem with nature priority, writes about the range of work we're supporting towards healthy UK seas and thriving coastal communities.
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Invitation to tender: Communications support for community-led freshwater campaigns
We are seeking a PR and Comms agency to support an informal network of community-led freshwater campaign groups who share our goal of improving and protecting freshwater environments, and whose voice and work are critical to achieving it.
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Insights from place-led funding
Read our Insights report where we share learning from the place-led funding we’ve done over the past five years, which has informed and shaped our strategy in Creative, Confident Communities.
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Creative, Confident Communities: update to our strategy
As our work for Creative, Confident Communities has developed, we have updated our strategy to better reflect what we hope to achieve and the types of work we are looking to support.
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LocalMotion Learning and Knowledge Exchange Partner: invitation for proposals
Together with a group of funders, we set up LocalMotion, a place-based initiative to support communities tackle deep-rooted causes of injustice in a more joined up, radical way. We are now looking to appoint a "Learning and Knowledge Exchange Partner". Read the Invitation for proposals to find out more.
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Plunkett Foundation
We visited Siop Griffiths in Penygroes to learn how, with the support of Plunkett Foundation, they were able to develop their community owned café and shop, and help boost the confidence in the future of this rural village.
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