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Looking for Zero Waste Heroes in Westminster
Thanks to everyone who came along on to our Plan Zheroes action on Saturday. We met with managers and staff of 25 businesses near Trafalgar Square to find out how they dispose of their waste food and got lots of really useful information to help our campaign. Many food retailers, restaurants and cafes told us...
Help Feed Your Neighbour In Just Two Hours!
Just two hours of your time is all we ask. Put the paper down. Turn off the TV. Come and meet the Greener Planet Action Team on Saturday November 6th and help us find out how we can divert the surplus food from supermarkets, restaurants and hotels to people who really need it –...
Community Leaders meet Chair of London Councils
A London Citizens team just met for the first time with new Chair of London Councils, Mayor Jules Pipe. Vastiana Belfon, a leader from St Johns-at-Hackney chaired the meeting and was joined by leaders from East, South and West London Citizens in proposing that London Councils become a Living Wage champion. It was a really...
Tower Hamlets Mayor Candidates united by TELCO around the Common Good
The results of the hotly contested election for the Mayor in Tower Hamlets are to be anounced tonight. Although the winner is uncertain at present what is certain are the candidates commitments to work with the members in TELCO for the good of the Borough.
Shopping centre to become Safe Zone
In honour of young people affected by violent crime, community leaders will gather on Saturday, October 23, 2010, to celebrate the launch of the Lewisham Shopping Centre as a safe zone for those in immediate danger. This bold move by stores and leaders in the Centre comes after months of careful negotiations lead young people,...
The Living Wage Campaign – a decade of success
A decade of success: the CitizensUK Living Wage Campaign ‘Impossible. Illegal. Naive.’ That was what TELCO was told back in 2001 when we launched the Living Wage campaign, dormant as a movement in the UK for over 70 years. Over the last decade, things have changed. ‘An idea whose time has come.’ That was what...
Mayoral candidates back Citizens’ agenda
On Wednesday 6th October, in St Mary and St Michael’s Church, TELCO Tower Hamlets held a big accountability assembly for the 5 candidates that are running for the position of Elected Mayor in the Borough. Over 400 delgates from the 24 member institutions in Tower Hamlets packed the room, to listen and question the candidates on how they would work...
Momentum builds for UK’s first community land trust
The St Clement’s Hospital CLT team gained unanimous support for their bid to build the first ever urban Community Land Trust in the UK from over 500 Tower Hamlets delegates last week. As they prepare for the bid they are beginning to issue local community shares in the project that will replicate the £55,000 in...
Plan Zheroes at Pret A Manger
The next stop for the Greener Planet Action Team’s campaign against food waste, Plan Zheroes, is the HQ of Pret A Manger in Victoria. On Monday Ocotber 4th we will be filming an interview with Nicki Fisher, Pret’s Head of Sustainability. Pret A Manger has a good reputation for diverting their surplus food to local charities...
Living Wage victories as both UCL and Islington Council commit
Malcolm Grant, Provost of UCL, has today given a firm commitment to pay the London Living Wage to all contract staff at University College London. The decision will be implemented over the next two years as contracts are reviewed. This is a huge victory for the Living Wage campaign at UCL, which has involved students,...
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