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Little or large: different approaches to CCI
Is it true that only large firms take corporate community involvement seriously? What do small and medium-sized companies think? New research from Ashridge Management College offers some answers.
Crime and the bottom line
Crime is hitting bottom line profits with a force that is leading to fresh approaches on the part of businesses. Peter Frankental, Development Manager of the Business Against Crime Project, assesses the case for partnership.
 
Shell: Global business,
home community.
The oil giants have long had some of the largest community programmes. With the privatised colossi like BT and British Gas joining the scene, achieving a distinctive approach in a more crowded arena becomes harder, yet Shell in the UK continues to run one of the most interesting programmes.
Employee attitudes
Apparently the British are the most unhappy workers in Europe - can more employee community involvement help to overcome this?
 
Deprivation in the
Countryside
Deprivation and disadvantage is widespread in rural areas, not just restricted to urban areas.
>Tomorrow's Company -
The RSA Enquiry
Set up more than a year ago, the business-led RSA inquiry has just issued an interim report.
 
Planned Partners in
Education
Carol Kay, Chief Executive of SCIP, charts the future of business education links and sets out her vision of how companies can help create a learning society.
Tate & Lyle: Past and
present
Tate & Lyle's Neil Shaw has been chairman of Business in the Community for three years - how does his own company's community involvement measure up?
 
Lottery looms on the
horizon
New figures show corporate donations holding up well, while hopes and fears over the lottery mount in the charity world.
Local economic
development
As the economy moves out of recession, the advice needs of new and expanding small businesses become more urgent, while the scope for local economic strategies grows more promising.
 
The training revolution
Criticisms are mounting about the government's new system for training and qualifications, despite the support many companies give to the TEC movement.