The Fun-abil8y project at the St James Centre, in Normanton, is one of the leading groups in Derby supporting young disabled people to “live life to the MAX”. I wrote previously that […]
Bright new “Hive” for young disabled people in Normanton.
Council clueless about costs of Moorways Swimming Pool
The closure of Moorways Swimming Pool has prompted much public annoyance throughout the City, and is the subject of a high profile campaign and petition to the Council. The fact that Derby’s […]
Faith Hope Enterprise: Helping the whole homeless person
“It’s that kind of relationship that really helps people change, and they know we care about them, not that we’re simply doing our job. Some of the social activities are helping people […]
Myth of the Council’s “statutory service” rhetoric
Over the last few months the Council leadership has repeated the position that the Tory budget cuts have meant that, now, only statutory services can be supplied, and that all non-statutory activities […]
Voluntary Sector Grants: Council confirms no facts were used in making decision
In a previous article I questioned whether the Council had full knowledge of the facts in support of their decision to cut Voluntary, Community and Faith (VCF) Grants. The first of my […]
Derby Soup – local crowdfunding of small projects – with something to eat.
Raising money to fund small projects, locally, can be bureaucratic, something of a mystery, and arguably, undemocratic. It always leaves questions as to where the money went, was it really a good […]
Derby students pamper the elderly at the Indian Community Centre
Just over a dozen students, and ex-students, from the Littleover Community School and Derby Moor College made an impromptu visit to the Indian Community Centre (ICC) today. 30 minutes before the Centre […]
Ravi: A Blessing from the Indian Community in Derby
For Ravi, “the future is just another big day”, but sitting in an anonymous airport lounge, on her own, waiting to board a flight for the first time, to go to a […]
St James’ Centre – Community Development through Commitment, Dedication and Passion.
The St James Centre is one of the remaining vestiges in Normanton of the Derby Pride scheme of the early 90s which created the modern Pride Park complex. An opportunity to regenerate […]
Dr Patrick Boateng: Coping with racism with a clear sense of identity.
Patrick was born into an affluent African family in the city of Kumasi in Ghana. When he was born in 1948, it was the start of the self-government movement, which led to […]
Policing the Community is about Police in the community
There is only one certain thing about policing the Normanton and Arboretum wards in Derby, and that is the level of unpredictability. As with the majority of deprived inner city areas it […]
Derby City Council Voluntary Sector Grant Aid: Reports of cuts “have been greatly exaggerated”.
There seems to have been much confusion and misunderstanding around the position on Grant aid from the Derby City Council to the Voluntary and Community and Faith (VCF) Sector. The worst extent […]
Dignity Action Day 2015 at Indian Community Centre
Dignity Action Day is an annual event, UK wide, which provides the opportunity for health and social care workers, and members of the public to uphold people’s rights to dignity and provide […]
Artcore launches the “Open Hands Project” at the Indian Community Centre in Derby
Reducing crime through Art, probably doesn’t sound like the most obvious of connections but then employing more Police to do the same isn’t a guarantee of success, either. Using a variety of […]
Multi-Faith Centre: 10 Years of promoting Cohesion and Understanding
On September 11th 2004, Derby’s Multi-Faith Centre (MFC) was opened. This date in September was not engineered to coincide with the events of 3 years earlier but, in retrospect, it is extremely […]
The Baltic Community Group in Derby is launched
Derby is home to many people from the Russian speaking nations of the ex-Soviet Union. Principally they are from the Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the remainder being from Russia […]
Why is Derby so attractive to some migrants?
Letter to Derby Telegraph. Barbara Wiltshire’s Soapbox “There is no room and no jobs, so what is so attractive to migrants” neatly summarises many of the myths and prejudices that seem to […]
