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2 weeks ago | 
thebristolcable.org | Alex Turner
Since coming to Bristol in the 2000s, photographer Colin Moody has become a celebrated chronicler of the city – including in the pages of the Cable. Famously, he is one of the people who documented the fall of Edward Colston’s statue during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, capturing the moments when the slave trader’s likeness was rolled into the Floating Harbour.
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4 weeks ago | 
insidehousing.co.uk | Alex Turner
News8.00 AM Sheffield City Council is to consult on a new five-year temporary accommodation strategy as it seeks to end B&B placements and rein in losses due to housing benefit subsidy rules.
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1 month ago | 
insidehousing.co.uk | Alex Turner
News4.15 PM Lewisham Council has unanimously approved a £470m draft retrofit strategy for its own housing stock. Lewisham town hall (image: Google Street View)SharelinesLewisham Council has unanimously approved a £470m draft retrofit strategy for its own housing stock #UKhousing The decision, taken at a cabinet meeting on 12 March, proposes that the south London council adopt a “phased” approach to decarbonisation across the borough.
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1 month ago | 
insidehousing.co.uk | Alex Turner
News9.30 AM The government is not taking the potential impact of its cladding remediation plans on housebuilding targets seriously enough, according to a Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
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1 month ago | 
insidehousing.co.uk | Alex Turner
News4.30 PM The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) is consulting on a £400m, five-year housing strategy, the “backbone” of which is based on learnings from the Grenfell Tower disaster.
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1 month ago | 
civilsociety.co.uk | Rob Preston |Alex Turner
A free guide published today has called on charities to move beyond equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) practices to tackle racism in the sector. ACEVO and Voice4Change England’s An Anti-Racism Companion Journal says warns that increasing a charity’s employee ethnic diversity may change who does its work without changing what the work is. The guide warns that this can leave in place “civil society’s failures to support Black and minoritised ethnic populations at large”.
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1 month ago | 
civilsociety.co.uk | Alex Turner
Three social investment funds previously managed by Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisations (GMCVO), which entered administration in late 2024, have been taken on by a specialist community investor.
The news, announced on 12 March, will see the Sheffield-based organisation handling the GMCVO’s Growth Fund, Enterprising Communities Fund and Proper Good Investment Fund.
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1 month ago | 
thebristolcable.org | Alex Turner
As we pause between seasons of Bristol Unpacked, we are raiding our long-running podcast’s archives to resurface a few gems – and what better way to start, with this weekend having marked International Women’s Day, than the 2022 chat between Neil and Jayde Adams? Bristol comedy legend Jayde, who needs no introduction these days, went from a job in Asda Bedminster – where her mum also worked for years – to a period as an Adele impersonator, and on to international fame.
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1 month ago | 
thebristolcable.org | Alex Turner
The sport of cock-throwing in Elizabethan England, as imagined by a 19th century illustrator. Pancake Day isn’t really up there with the big holidays. Some of us might mark it by making pancakes because, well… tradition? Because pancakes are good? Because making them will be fun for the kids? But many of us won’t crack any eggs or search for the vegan pancake mix at the back of the cupboard. It will be just another Tuesday. Reporting on the stories that matter to you. Only with your support.
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2 months ago | 
thebristolcable.org | Alex Turner
“It’s about the most serious thing, now we don’t have the death penalty, that any judge can do,” says this week’s Bristol Unpacked guest, barrister Lucy Reed, on the state’s powers to remove children from their families and take them into care. The family courts in which these decisions happen, and where couples who are separating hammer out custody arrangements for their children, have until recently been extremely private – many would say secretive – places.
