Future of the Arts conference – TUC London East & South East

This event will focus both on how the sector can weather the current economic storms, but more importantly, how a long-term and sustainable future for the arts can be secured to the benefit of society as a whole. TUC LESE Culture and Leisure Industries Committee has published an action plan called 'Making Culture Ours', which is a progressive manifesto for […]

Campaign For Trade Union Freedom & Institute Of Employment Rights

From Pentonville to P&O: Union Rights & Tory Wrongs Campaigning For Free Trade Unions The conference will focus on the need to mobilise and support a major trade union campaign to fight against attacks on workers’ and union rights and the need to ensure a full implementation by Labour of the New Deal for Working People as agreed at the Labour […]

Young & unrepresented – an LCER Youth event

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All young people welcome for this LCER Youth event as we explore how Proportional Representation can help us achieve the policies we need for our futures. First Past the Post consistently gives older, home-owning voters in marginal seats disproportionate power over British politics - while young people's voices are ignored. To make sure young people's voices are heard - and to bring […]

Unison – Champions Day

UNISON will be holding our first-ever Champions Day, designed to raise the profile of local government workers and highlight how much we appreciate them and the work they do. All year, local authority staff play their part in holding our communities together, supporting us through every stage of our lives – this is the perfect opportunity to recognise and celebrate […]

Democracy Network Annual Conference 2022

On December 7th & 8th, 2022, we are bringing together all the organisations across Great Britain and Northern Ireland working on issues of power, democracy and voice for an exciting schedule spanning two days. We will have a series of workshops, provocations and activities with collaboration, connection and celebration at the core of the exciting agenda. We want to recognise […]

State of Health and Care Conference 2022

Our health is in crisis. 20th century improvements in UK population health are reversing; UK health is lagging behind other advanced countries; and the NHS faces the toughest winter in its history. At the same time, the economy faces big, fundamental and long-term weaknesses. The labour market is struggling; productivity has failed to recover from the financial crash; and we are experiencing […]

THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS – Pontefract

One Man Magic Lantern show of the classic book THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS by Robert Tressell Actor Neil Gore brings this humorous and absorbing book to life in his one person magic lantern show. Based on the 1914 novel by Robert Tressell, its story is set in the building trades of Edwardian England where painters and decorators struggle to maintain […]