Tag: poverty
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Enduring pride
Durham Pride has been in the news – mainly because it nearly didn’t go ahead. The event used to get some funding from the local council, but after Reform UK took over last year, the party said it would no longer fund “politics in fancy dress”, as Metro reports. Then trade unions started fundraising to…
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“Everyone did their bit”: Band Aid and beyond
Paul Vallely, author of a doorstopper of a book, Philanthropy A to Z, was set to speak at Faversham Literary Festival recently, so I got myself a ticket. Only later did I realise he was speaking alongside Bob Geldof: turns out that Vallely has worked alongside the musician (and Faversham resident) for decades and has…
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Chess, 3D printers -or doing nothing: public libraries as “shared living rooms”
“Hanging out at Oodi without a reason is welcomed and even recommended.” So says the brochure for Helsinki’s Central Library, named Oodi (meaning ‘ode’) – a vast ship-like, spruce-clad building that opened five years ago. It describes itself as “an open space for culture and creation”, and “everyone’s shared living room”. I don’t think that’s…
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