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• Communities Minister Andrew Stunell wishes British Sikhs a Happy Vaisakhi

  Communities Minister Andrew Stunell wishes Happy Vaisakhi to all British Sikh communities celebrating the start of the New Year.

  • Added: 12 April 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Communities Minister Andrew Stunell wishes Christians a Happy Easter

  Communities Minister Andrew Stunell reflects on new beginnings and the spirit of helping others as he wishes Christians across the nation a very happy Easter.

  • Added: 5 April 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Downing Street launch for Troubled Families Scheme

  Local Authority leaders and frontline community workers were this week invited to a reception in Downing Street to mark the start of the Government's groundbreaking initiative to turn around the lives of troubled families.

  • Added: 30 March 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Eric Pickles welcomes Asian cuisine apprenticeships

  Eric Pickles has welcomed the launched of five Centres of Excellence for Asian and Oriental Cuisine.

  • Added: 30 March 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Andrew Stunell meets young business champions

  Communities Minister Andrew Stunell was honoured to announce the winners of the Mosaic Enterprise Challenge Grand Final which celebrates small business ideas from young people from ethnic minorities.

  • Added: 16 March 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Ministers see riot-recovery underway in Greenwich, Manchester and Salford

  Ministers have visited more towns that were badly affected by the riots, to see progress six months on and meet the local people, traders and council workers getting their communities back on track.

  • Added: 24 February 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Eric Pickles visits Tottenham six months on to see riot-recovery in local community

  Communities Secretary Eric Pickles visited Tottenham, an area badly affected by the riots, to meet local traders and member of the community to hear first hand the progress they have made to get their area back on track.

  • Added: 16 February 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Baroness Newlove meets young advisors in Sefton

  Baroness Newlove has this week congratulated young people making a real difference by influencing the key decisions that affect their local communities.

  • Added: 27 January 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Speak up, Speak out: Holocaust Memorial Day 2012

  Communities Secretary Eric Pickles paid tribute to those affected by genocide past and present, at an event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

  • Added: 27 January 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Baroness Newlove visits Northern Ireland to see projects tackling anti-social behaviour

  The Government's champion for Active Safer Communities, Baroness Newlove last week visited Northern Ireland to see for herself the success of the grassroots "Street by Street" project in East Belfast.

  • Added: 20 January 2012
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Communities Secretary Eric Pickles sees ongoing restoration work at Auschwitz-Birkenau

  Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has spoken of the profound and moving experience of visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau.

  • Added: 13 December 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Baroness Newlove: Community action in Havering

  Baroness Newlove has joined local residents in Havering, North East London to celebrate the opening of a new 'Community Shop' set-up to give local people a greater role in solving local problems.

  • Added: 7 December 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Community Budget pilots move one step closer as shortlisted areas named

  Shortlisted areas are named for the 'Whole-Place' and 'Neighbourhood-level' Community Budgets pilots.

  • Added: 2 December 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Green Flag Awards: Views invited on the future

  Lovers of green spaces will get the chance to have a say on the future of the prestigious Green Flag Award at an event next week at the Department for Communities and Local Government.

  • Added: 30 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Faith groups and Eric Pickles discuss 'living well together'

  Communities Secretary Eric Pickles joined the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks and representatives from nine faith communities for informal discussions on the theme of 'living well together in Britain today'.

  • Added: 23 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Grant Shapps encourages communities to high jump red tape and celebrate London 2012 with their own street games

  Local Government Minister Grant Shapps has fired the starting pistol in the race to get Britain warmed up for London 2012 and plan Street Games.

  • Added: 19 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Social Action Week - Baroness Newlove joins the breakfast shift at homeless day centre

  The Government's champion for Active Safer Communities, Baroness Newlove has joined staff cooking breakfast at London's largest voluntary sector day centre for homeless and vulnerable people.

  • Added: 10 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Andrew Stunell sends his best wishes for Eid-ul-Adha

  As Muslims across the country prepare to celebrate Eid-ul-Adha on Sunday 6 November 2011 Communities Minister Andrew Stunell sends his best wishes.

  • Added: 4 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Andrew Stunell meets the trainees at the Café on the Hill project in Ealing

  Communities Minister Andrew Stunell this week met trainees learning new practical skills to help them get back into employment at the Café on the Hill project in Ealing, London.

  • Added: 4 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods

• Baroness Newlove: Local Coventry community benefits from inspirational 'Boot Camp' project

  Baroness Newlove, the Government's Champion for Active Safer Communities, joined local residents in Spon End, Coventry to celebrate the opening of a memorial garden at Wellington Gardens.

  • Added: 2 November 2011
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods