Category Archives: Community Allowance

Speech at the launch of Jericho Road Solutions, 15th May 2013

Posted on May 17, 2013 by jesssteele

Welcome, and thank you for coming to wet the baby’s head. I’m going to revisit a speech I first gave in November 2010 which was the first time I used the Jericho Road quote. Goes to show you never know … Continue reading →

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Welfare reform & communities

Posted on March 4, 2013 by jesssteele

Today’s second speech was at Respublica’s event to launch Julian Dobson’s excellent report “Responsible Recovery: A social contract for local growth”. Welfare reform and communities Jess Steele, Locality Innovation Director & Chair of CREATE Consortium I’ve worked for the past … Continue reading →

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East London – 10 years of regeneration

Posted on March 4, 2013 by jesssteele

I gave two speeches today. The first was at an event organised by Community Links in Canning Town. REGENERATION OF EAST LONDON [I’m going to see if you can multi-task! While I’m talking, sketch a little map of a bit … Continue reading →

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Chicago 1: The South Side & Regina

Posted on November 20, 2011 by jesssteele

Tues 15th November 2011 A beautiful sunny, warm day in ultra-civilised Chicago began with a wander in Grant Park. Everything takes just a bit longer than you expect because of waiting to cross the enormous roads. So then I hurried … Continue reading →

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Detroit 2: Grace Lee Boggs & the Angels

Posted on November 18, 2011 by jesssteele

Sunday, 13th November 2011   I was so delighted to get a call on Sunday morning from Rich Feldman of the Boggs Centre for Nurturing Community Leadership. He had received last night’s email and could meet me today and hoped … Continue reading →

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Demob happy – fragments

Posted on June 15, 2011 by jesssteele

Off tomorrow to Prague to celebrate 10 yrs with DH (v dear, not quite H). Very excited, but before I go, I need to record a few fragments of conversations from today: I’ve been to JRF’s ‘Communities Under Pressure’ report … Continue reading →

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Decentralisation & the DTA

Posted on September 15, 2010 by jesssteele

David Prout (Director General for Communities, CLG) at #DTAconference10 yesterday described: 4 kinds of decentralisation – centralised decentralisation (government says how to do it) – eg GPs, elected police commissioners bottom-up decentralisation (seeking additional decision-making powers) – eg community-based budgeting, … Continue reading →

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