Childrens Rights

The Children and Young People’s Rights page from Liberty. A powerful resource.

Who Gets Bullied?

These pages from Kidscape offer advice, guidance and support around these difficult and sensitive issues.

LifeSizeOrange - picture perfect

If you are having a community or project event, family occasion or awards ceremony and want to preserve those photographs - then the LifeSizeOrange service offers digital enlargement, framing and delivery. You can do it all on-line at a range of prices.

ImagineNewmarket

A new site for a community partnership building an Imagination Centre in the East of England. A site that records the growth of the trust, the volunteers and the programme of work. Good links to other centres. SmithMartin sponsor the ImagineNewmarket web pages.

Woodland Ways

This East Anglian environmental charity does great work with schools in its area. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and local authorities the charity is a model of winning sustainable service level agreements for its work. Currently building an easy access footpath through Natterer's Wood. Can you see the bat?

4Children Network

4Children's Vision - Our vision is for every child, in every community, to have the opportunities to realise their potential – to learn, develop and be with friends – and for every parent to access the support they need to build a better future for their family. (..detail from 4Children web site - worth a look)

Children in Scotland

The site is packed with information. It is the national agency for voluntary, statutory and professional organisation and individuals working with children and young people in Scotland. Everyone really under the same umbrella!

Coram Family

Coram Family is a leading children’s charity based in London, not far from King’s Cross. It works in a huge range of issues in the care of vulnerable children and their families. Many services related to working with those experiencing trauma and separation and particularly working with the family to prevent problems . They are a pioneer organisation prepared to take risks. If you are walking through Coram Fields and find yourself anywhere near you will sense the tremendous work that is going on next door.

Stagework

A BAFTA award winning site. Follow plays and productions at the National Theatre and other locations. Tour through the productions, see the people involved, find out about the whole process of putting on the plays. Excellent video of rehearsal of Coram Boy and other plays. Listen to the head of the National Theatre Studio talking about the National’s Performance Laboratory, where writers, directors and actors work collaboratively before a production ever gets to the rehearsal stage. Fantastic….Coram activities...why not do the whole thing… Buy the book. See it at The National Visit the Coram Family website Find yourself back in the dark days of an eighteenth century world with all the fears, corruption and exploitation that you could find yourself caught up in.

British Council Community Arts pages

...these pages give a thumbnail sketch of how arts for social and community purposes have flourished in the UK - especially how they have fed into urban regeneration programmes and "social engineering" projects which aim to make UK society a more equal place where all sections of society have access to the arts, and wider social advantages...

BBC Arts Pages

Varied, informative and refreshing.

British Arts Festivals

The diary and information pages of the British Arts Festivals. Look for an event near you.

Bridges Community Ventures

Bridges Community Ventures is the UK’s first community development venture capital company, established to invest in ambitious businesses in the most under-invested parts of England.

Social Enterprise Coalition

The Social Enterprise Coalition is the UK's national body for social enterprise The Social Enterprise Coalition represents a wide range of social enterprises, regional and national support networks and other related organisations. We believe that social enterprise is the right way to do business...

Wikipedia definition of Social Enterprise

Clear, concise, informative and with good links for research.

Setting up a Social Enterprise

Information and links from Business Link in the UK. A social enterprise is a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners...a clear and robust source of up to date information.