Guest Blog: John Griffiths is a Director of Rocket Science UK Ltd and the co-author of The Evolution of London’s BIDs (2016). Last month he attended the second annual London Business Improvement District summit at City Hall, and in this blog, he offers some thoughts about how civil society could harness the potential of BIDs to be partners in supporting communities.
Changes in the Children’s Centre structure and funding have brought uncertainty in the early years’ sector and many community venues have closed. Enfield Voluntary Action shares with us their innovative ‘discover and share’ project, which is making a positive impact to the lives of young parents in the borough.
At their current rate of spend in 2017, Greenwich CVS would cease to exist by 2020. However, Greenwich CVS have survived funding cuts of over 50% due to merging with METRO. METROGAVs share their learning from the merging process with us.