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• Eric Pickles visits Tottenham six months on to see riot-recovery in local community

  Communities Secretary Eric Pickles visited Tottenham, an area badly affected by the riots, to meet local traders and member of the community to hear first hand the progress they have made to get their area back on track.

  • Added: 16 February 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Baroness Newlove meets young advisors in Sefton

  Baroness Newlove has this week congratulated young people making a real difference by influencing the key decisions that affect their local communities.

  • Added: 27 January 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Speak up, Speak out: Holocaust Memorial Day 2012

  Communities Secretary Eric Pickles paid tribute to those affected by genocide past and present, at an event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

  • Added: 27 January 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Baroness Newlove visits Northern Ireland to see projects tackling anti-social behaviour

  The Government's champion for Active Safer Communities, Baroness Newlove last week visited Northern Ireland to see for herself the success of the grassroots "Street by Street" project in East Belfast.

  • Added: 20 January 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Communities Secretary Eric Pickles sees ongoing restoration work at Auschwitz-Birkenau

  Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has spoken of the profound and moving experience of visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau.

  • Added: 13 December 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Baroness Newlove: Community action in Havering

  Baroness Newlove has joined local residents in Havering, North East London to celebrate the opening of a new 'Community Shop' set-up to give local people a greater role in solving local problems.

  • Added: 7 December 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Community Budget pilots move one step closer as shortlisted areas named

  Shortlisted areas are named for the 'Whole-Place' and 'Neighbourhood-level' Community Budgets pilots.

  • Added: 2 December 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Green Flag Awards: Views invited on the future

  Lovers of green spaces will get the chance to have a say on the future of the prestigious Green Flag Award at an event next week at the Department for Communities and Local Government.

  • Added: 30 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Faith groups and Eric Pickles discuss 'living well together'

  Communities Secretary Eric Pickles joined the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks and representatives from nine faith communities for informal discussions on the theme of 'living well together in Britain today'.

  • Added: 23 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Grant Shapps encourages communities to high jump red tape and celebrate London 2012 with their own street games

  Local Government Minister Grant Shapps has fired the starting pistol in the race to get Britain warmed up for London 2012 and plan Street Games.

  • Added: 19 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Social Action Week - Baroness Newlove joins the breakfast shift at homeless day centre

  The Government's champion for Active Safer Communities, Baroness Newlove has joined staff cooking breakfast at London's largest voluntary sector day centre for homeless and vulnerable people.

  • Added: 10 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Andrew Stunell sends his best wishes for Eid-ul-Adha

  As Muslims across the country prepare to celebrate Eid-ul-Adha on Sunday 6 November 2011 Communities Minister Andrew Stunell sends his best wishes.

  • Added: 4 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Andrew Stunell meets the trainees at the Café on the Hill project in Ealing

  Communities Minister Andrew Stunell this week met trainees learning new practical skills to help them get back into employment at the Café on the Hill project in Ealing, London.

  • Added: 4 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Baroness Newlove: Local Coventry community benefits from inspirational 'Boot Camp' project

  Baroness Newlove, the Government's Champion for Active Safer Communities, joined local residents in Spon End, Coventry to celebrate the opening of a memorial garden at Wellington Gardens.

  • Added: 2 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Louise Casey CB takes up her new role as Head of a new Troubled Families Team

  Louise Casey CB has taken up her new role as Head of a new Troubled Families Team at the Department for Communities and Local Government.

  • Added: 1 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Andrew Stunell: Your parks and green spaces need you

  Andrew Stunell has announced that next year's Green Flag Award application round is open, and urged groups that manage green spaces and parks, including those managed and created by local communities, to step forward.

  • Added: 1 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Bob Neill: Pulling pints at The Partridge

  Pulling the perfect pint was (lager) top of the agenda today for Community Pubs Minister Bob Neill as he stepped behind the bar to do a shift in his local.

  • Added: 27 October 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Happy Diwali: Andrew Stunell sends his best wishes on Diwali

  As Hindu, Jain and Sikh communities gather to celebrate the Festival of Lights on 26 October Communities Minister Andrew Stunell sends his best wishes to all of those celebrating Diwali and looking ahead to a New Year.

  • Added: 25 October 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Urban green spaces set to grow

  Environment Minister Richard Benyon and Planning Minister Bob Neill have launched the Green Infrastructure Partnership, which will support the development of green networks in urban areas.

  • Added: 14 October 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Baroness Newlove: West Salford Volunteers make a real difference

  Baroness Newlove joined West Salford residents in Eccles on Tuesday 20 September 2011 to celebrate the efforts of volunteers of all ages who are making a real difference to the lives of their neighbours and their wider community.

  • Added: 22 September 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods