Just got home from Coventry, where I spent the weekend on the final module of the ‘Fast Track’ programme of the Improvement and Development Agency’s (IDeA’s) excellent Leadership Academy for local councillors.
Since January, myself and other “young” councillors from all over the country have travelled up to the University of Warwick for some really great training on our role as councillors and almost everything involved Continue reading “On the Fast Track with the Leadership Academy”
Helen Porter, from Waltham Forest Friends Of The Earth, has sent me details of the Art Exhibition FoE is hosting on Sunday 22nd July 2007, at the Lloyd Park Theatre, Forest Road, Walthamstow, E17.
The exhibition will be held on the same day as the borough’s annual ‘Green Fayre’ and Helen is inviting submissions from local artists, community groups and individuals, who’d like to take up this great opportunity to display their work.
If you’re interested or know someone who may be, click here to download a submission application form.
I got back from Manchester, my own university stomping ground, earlier today, after travelling up to a special conference to announce and celebrate the Labour Party’s new Leader and Deputy Leader.
Although Jon Cruddas, my preferred candidate, came third in the final result for Deputy Leader, like other Cruddas supporters, I am delighted with his result.
Jon Cruddas may not have won the Deputy Leadership post yesterday but he most certainly won the campaign Continue reading “Celebrating Labour’s New Leaders”
Well done to the Mayor of London, the non-Tory members of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority, the trade unions, the churches, and thousands of decent Londoners for standing up to the London Tories, and opposing their disgraceful decision, to try and block a living wage for London Fire Brigade’s hard working – and predominantly female – cleaners.