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Council Leader names picks
Written by Milind on 16 May 2012
Edinburgh Labour has confirmed its appointments to the Labour-SNP coalition administration. The Council will agree appointments to posts over its two meetings on Thursday 17th May and Thursday 24th May. The picks announced on the Edinburgh Labour website are as follows: Leader: Andrew Burns Provost: Donald Wilson Convener of Education: Paul Godzik
Your Vision for Edinburgh?
Written by Milind on 11 May 2012
PEOPLE tend naturally to want progress. Humans have an in-built motivation to do better. Most of us also want progress for ourselves and for our neighbours. Some might call that community development, others social justice. The Edinburgh Partnership has articulated its Vision for Edinburgh in terms of an overarching vision and Four High-Level Outcomes. Now
Date with Democracy 03 May – Local Council Elections
Written by Milind on 23 April 2012
IT is an old platitude that ‘we get the government we deserve!’ An engaged and informed electorate will likely choose a government with policies which benefit most people. Conversely, an apathetic and disengaged electorate is likely to get a government chosen by very few, with policies which appeal to a minority. With reports of an
Which Way Welfare?
Written by Milind on 23 April 2012
FACED with tough choices and the urgent need for action on Welfare Reform, what would you do? Caught between UK Welfare Reform explicitly driven by the imperative to save money on one hand, and the emerging impacts of the financial recession and low/slow growth which drive up demand on the other – what provisions will
In Search of Sustainable Funding
Written by Milind on 11 April 2012
AT the last of EVOC’s series of #TwilightTalks, where the city’s Third Sector met Councillors and prospective Councillors, representatives of the SNP committed themselves to working with the Third Sector to find more sustainable ways of funding the vital services the Sector delivers. On behalf of Edinburgh’s Third Sector Interface, EVOC hosted a series
International passion
Written by Ella Simpson on 5 April 2012
Last week I met with a group of people from Norway. They work for an organisation called Fruvillighetnorge which is much like EVOC in its function. Our debate covered short term funding, creating sustainability, the social as well as service value of the sector, measuring our impact and outcomes and working with local and national
Person-Centred Politics, Trust and Neighbourhoods
Written by Milind on 28 March 2012
ON Tuesday 27th March representatives of Edinburgh’s Third Sector met up with candidates from the Scottish Liberal Democrat Party Councillors Paul Edie and Robert Aldridge for a frank exchange of views covered in a wide-ranging discussion. The fourth #TwilightTalks event at EVOC brought a core of committed Third Sector players together to build on the
Time to Raise our Game; Time to End Poverty
Written by Milind on 23 March 2012
OVER two days last week I was privileged to join hundreds of people keen to tackle poverty at The Poverty Alliance’s third Poverty Assembly. Details – and plenty of multimedia – via YouTube and at PovertyAlliance.org and via #PovertyAssembly for those of a twitterary bent. I was heartened and encouraged by what I saw and
Edinburgh Conservatives promise a Third Sector Champion
Written by Milind on 22 March 2012
AT the third of our #TwililghtTalks on Tuesday, with representatives of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, three candidates who are currently councillors put forward the Conservative approach to Edinburgh’s Third Sector and responded to a range of issues raised by Third Sector representatives present. Looking forward to the Council Elections on Thursday 3rd May
If it’s Tuesday…
Written by Milind on 14 March 2012
It must be time for #TwilightTalks! Indeed, it was. Yesterday evening, EVOC welcomed the Edinburgh Labour group – in the form of Forth Councillor Cammy Day and Craigentinny/Duddingston Councillor Ewan Aitken – for a wide-ranging and stimulating discussion about the Third Sector’s aspirations and Edinburgh Labour’s ambitions for the Council Elections 2012. The Edinburgh Labour
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