Category Archives: Updates

Manufacturing, built in obsolescence and apprenticeships

When stuff is made to last forever, you’ll need an army of highly trained people to keep them maintained and repaired which would solve sustainability, unemployment and  poverty. So writes Gordon Ferguson, a keen community activist who has been coming to … Continue reading

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Manufacturing Event Info, Powerpoints and Links

Book your place for  our final RAE Ingenious funded event where we’ll take a closer look at the mystery and magic of our manufacturing base from the many ways of punching two holes in a credit card to ways that XBox … Continue reading

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Green Structures – shortlisted for Autodesk Inventor of the Year

Autodesk is choosing the Inventor of the Year and winning would help Tom Lipinski push the UK innovation forward on the world stage. To vote for Green Structures all you have to do is press this link: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/783982/Inventor-of-the-Year and then vote for … Continue reading

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Crowd Wise Ingenious Project: Transport Event Report – 6th December 2011

It’s been quite a while since I’ve had the time or pleasure to write a newsletter, however brief, so I’m delighted to attach our Report on Crowd Wise Ingenious Transport event Sheffield 061211 for RAE Ingenious funded Transport event. PLUS a reminder … Continue reading

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Engineering Sustainable Transport

Our next event in this series of events funded by the RAE Ingenious Fund is themed on Engineering Sustainable Transport with contributions from: Dr Andy Young, Director, Hallam Energy, Principal Lecturer, Materials and Engineering Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University Professor … Continue reading

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Feedback to Cllr Paul Scriven on Youth Crime workshop

We are very proud to say that Cllr Paul Scriven invited Wendy to debrief him on Monday 1st December on major concerns, desired outcomes and potentially realistic solutions to Youth Crime: really understand the root cause which made young people … Continue reading

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Publication of Annual Report 2006/2007 & 2007/2008

We’re pleased to announce the publication of our Annual Report. A copy can be downloaded here, and there is also an update to bring you right up to date with AFI happenings up until June 30th 2008. You might also … Continue reading

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Updates

Since reforming after our Event for the Power Inquiry in 2005 we have: Delivered two Events with high level speakers including: * Nick Clegg, MP, the Liberal Democrat Party Leader; * Rose Ardron, the former Chair of the Burngreave New … Continue reading

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Further AFI Developments

Other AFI Developments We have published our October 2007 Event Report – please see here. Our funder, the Big Lottery’s Awards for All scheme were more than happy with our project management when they closed our funding account for year … Continue reading

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