Driving cars can be fun. The personal freedom, the wind in your hair and the stereo switched up to 11 while singing to Gary Numan.
No doubt that in years to come – probably with family and friends over a small glass of wine – someone will ask “Where were you when Gordon Brown left Number 10?”
Going forward into cash-strapped times, there will be increasing pressure to deliver better public services for less.
The second camp of phase two of Nesta's Creative Councils programme, hosted by Wigan Council, began at Sunshine House community centre in Scholes with an introduction to some of the most innovative work already happening in Wigan and the surrounding area.
The video games industry is changing rapidly. Established studios are going to the wall and new players, focusing on social and mobile, are getting in on the action. Read on to find out how the landscape is changing, and the challenges that lie ahead for the UK games industry.
It's now two years since we first came to NESTA with our working carers network idea. Building on the services that we provide through the Employers for Carers forum, we were looking to develop a model with the London Fire Brigade for an employee carers network which could be tailored and rolled out to other employers in the future.
As one of the ten Age Unlimited projects, our mission is to help employers support carers through our Employers for Carers service. Thanks to support from NESTA, we're building on this offering by helping older carers extend their working lives and combine their caring and work commitments healthily and productively.
The trees are up, the mince pies out, and the garlands hung. As the days get shorter and colder, we at Nesta have begun to look forward to the new year and reflect on our progress, challenges and achievements over 2012.
What is the best way to solve the crisis facing the UK economy and encourage growth?
Between October 2010 and March 2011 Cassie Robinson and I worked with NESTA's Big Green Diffusion (BGD) programme, evaluating the journeys taken and impact made by seven projects seeking to explore how their successful environmental initiatives could be spread to other communities more quickly and at greater scale.
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