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BAT Industries - Tackling the inner city blues
Sir Patrick Sheehy's report for the Home Secretary on the future management of the police force has put the spotlight onto the chairman of BAT Industries, a £19 billion world-wide business employing 200,000 people.
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Regeneration
At a seminar in London on July 30, a group of community development specialists heard Joan Shapiro from the South Shore Bank of Chicago explain how her bank is making money through reviving distressed communities.
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Employee involvement
Two thirds of employee volunteers (67%) believe it is important that senior management set an example by becoming involved in the community themselves and nearly three quarters (71%) prefer to chose their own area of voluntary activity rather than be led by the company.
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Up to any good in the
community?
June sees the start of the 1993 UK Volunteers Week, as a revamped Employee Involvement Award is launched.
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Pathways to higher
standards
The state of the nation's schools continues to dominate the headlines. A new campaign to get businesses more involved, previewed in the last edition of Community Affairs Briefing, was fully launched in May.
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Aiming higher at school
Britain is falling behind its international competitors: are weaknesses in the education system partly to blame?
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Urban regeneration
A skills development programme for managers and other key players in urban regeneration partnerships, Winning Partnerships, was announced by the then Environment Secretary, Michael Howard MP, at the Cities '93 Conference in Birmingham on May 24.
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Glaxo: A decade of growth
A decade ago, few people would have named Glaxo as one of the UK's biggest corporate donors; today it is in the top ten and growing.
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High costs, low standards
As a new survey reveals the cost to industry of sub-standard schooling, another partnership initiative is launched to get business committed to NVQs and education and training targets.
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Communities &
Community Development
The Community Development Foundation has just published its second annual report examining key national issues facing communities in the light of developments over the last year.
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