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The Cambridge Citizens’ Academy
“The City of Cambridge Citizens Academy is designed to teach interested citizens how the Cambridge government is structured and works, and to build a group of citizens prepared to serve for the betterment of the city. The goals are to encourage active citizenship and develop civic ambassadors for the city.” “Splendid! Where is it?” City…
If power without preparation serves no one, how are we preparing communities for devolution?
The former head of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit in Tony Blair’s Government wrote that ‘Power without preparation serves no one’ at the end of his recent blogpost. Taking that statement and applying it to ’empowering communities’ across the country, what preparations should they/we be making? “I’ve been struck this year by several comments and…
*Cambridge, can we set up groups like these?* On growing social infrastructure
‘Wouldn’t it be nice if that social group from that reel had a base in Cambridge as well as London’ …is something I often find myself thinking. Which is why this blogpost reads as a meandering brain-dump. That said, at the end we find very recent research (October 2026-recent) shows many of the things listed…
