62 h. ago How Gary Sinise is helping the nonprofit CreatiVets build ‘a place to go when the PTSD hits’

The nonprofit CreatiVets is transforming a once-abandoned church in Nashville into a 24-hour arts center for veterans and a community hub

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5 d. ago East Kilbride Community Trust unveils plan for new building at K

The new ‘Community Football Spaces Building’ is set to enhance the existing sports hub through the delivery of a range of indoor services not currently available

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6 d. ago Threats, fear and hope as Mumbai slum dwellers await the bulldozers

Dharavi’s 1m residents say community hub could become a playground for the rich under Adani Group’s redevelopment planFor months, the threatening phone calls kept coming. First, allegedly from an ex-police officer and a retired army general, and then from the police themselves. Finally, Mohammad Khurshid Shaikh claims, he was summoned to the police station and told clearly: keep quiet or there will be real trouble for you.Shaikh is among those fighting a multimillion-dollar project in which Dharavi – one of India’s largest and most storied slums – will be bulldozed and redeveloped by the multinational conglomerate Adani Group. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Coatbridge community hub in £10k funding boost to grow its services

Kirkshaws Neighbourhood Centre has secured the cash through the Scottish Procurement Alliance’s (SPA) Community Benefit Fund.

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9 d. ago Bid to transform old church hall in Paisley into community hub could take major step forward

Request for community asset transfer of the former St Ninian's Church Hall set to go before elected members.

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1 week ago Nike and Palace Open Manor Place, a London Hub for Sport, Creativity and Community — NIKE, Inc.

Nike and Palace Open Manor Place, a London Hub for Sport, Creativity and Community — NIKE, Inc.  About Nike

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2 w. ago Artist ‘nearly fainted’ when she found out commission was gift for Queen

Camilla was delighted to receive portraits of her beloved rescue dogs during a visit to a new community hub in Wiltshire.

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3 w. ago Former Balloch tourist information centre subject of community hub plans

The group behind the asset transfer proposals are urging the residents of Balloch and Haldane are urging locals to get behind the plans for the former station building and car park.

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3 w. ago Clydesdale community hub gets cash from Renewable Energy Fund

Hope Hub SCIO (HHS) has been given almost £60,000 to put in solar panels and batteries which will help it reduce running costs, carbon emissions and make the facilities more sustainable.

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3 w. ago Historic town founded by Black Colombians fleeing slavery eyes second ‘independence’

San Basilio de Palenque calls itself ‘the first free Black territory in the Americas’ – a referendum next month could win its own local governmentThe Caribbean Colombian village that proudly calls itself “the first free Black territory in the Americas” is on the verge of freeing itself once again – not from the Spanish crown, as it did in the early 18th century, but from local government control.Just over 300 years after Spain recognised San Basilio de Palenque as a slavery-free territory, residents of the community, just 30 miles away from the touristic hub of Cartagena, are set to vote on finally becoming an independent town.Young people rehearse their musical performance for the night of the Drum festival in San Basilio de Palenque Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Country diary: Racing peregrines among the rusting mills | Richard Smyth

Manningham, Bradford: Twenty-six years after this great industrial hub closed down, it still has resonances with the community via its thrilling wildlifeA peregrine comes bombing down from the ornamented parapet of the 76-metre mill chimney Lister’s Pride, and a hundred pigeons scatter. I’m on Patent Street, Bradford, by the west wall of what was once the biggest silk mill in Europe, called Lister’s Mill, or sometimes Manningham Mills. It was thrown up in the 1870s by Samuel Cunliffe Lister, and for more than a century was one of the great industrial palaces of the north. Since shutting in 1999, about half has been restored as offices and high-end flats; the other half is derelict. Forests of buddleia cover the concrete floors, and fox trails wind through the weeds.Peer through steel grilles into the basements, and see hart’s-tongue ferns as thick and green as cabbages in a vegetable patch. Rust is everywhere (what John Ruskin called “living” iron: “It is not a fault in the iron, bu...

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3 w. ago Opening West Ham’s community hub was one of my proudest days in football – we even had a 90s pop star on the guestlist

THE GUEST LIST at the official opening of our brand new community hub The Foundry this week read like a who’s who of claret and blue. West Ham heroes past and present, coaches, directors, charitable partners, local MPs, mayors, Prem representatives, budding entrepreneurs, hopeful young starlets in our Girls’ Academy, a 50-strong choir of senior...

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