What is Sustainable Development???  What can it do for me and for Sheffield? follow-up meeting by invitation only for workshop participants once again very generously hosted by DLA Piper LLP Sheffield office, 1 St Paul’s Place, Sheffield S1 2JX (click post code for maplink)  @ 12.15pm – 2.00pm on Tuesday 15th June 2010.

Workshop discussion raised on various topics and major issues in their own right as follows:

• planning, retail giant’s manipulation of planning regulations and its effect on small traders.
• transport, buses, regulation, congestion charging and the use of parking to incentivise more constructive
• housing, fuel consumption, charging, fuel poverty and incentivising reduced fuel consumption
• practices surrounding food, food waste, cooking, the connection between food and animal husbandry

Invitation for up to 30 people.

• Discuss issues for New Economics Foundation’s events
• Review Sustainable Development workshop outcomes
• Decide what to do next
• Present our Plans and Annual Report

As we only have place for 30 people, we will apply our cancellation policy of £15 for no-shows and people turning up without a reserved place.

New Economics Foundation has asked us to run a series of say six events in Sheffield with their new product Crowd Wise which uses ‘consensus voting’ to create better decisions and priorities acceptable to more people, made quicker.  Crowd Wise takes account of a full range of preferences in a tested, flexible format for a wide range of issues and decisions by creating constructive dialogue and consensus voting. Please drop us a line with the issues you’d like us to put forward for one of these events and we’ll keep you posted on developments.

Visit us at the University of Sheffield’s first Big Green Fair on Monday 10th May 10am-3pm at the Octagon Centre, Weston Bank which we anticipate will bring many opportunities for linking up in the future.

Our workshop:  What is Sustainable Development???- What can it do for me and for Sheffield? was a resounding success. 

Rachel Wileman,Partnership Co-ordinator for Sheffield First Environment Partnership, was among over 80 people who met to learn about living in a more sustainable way and to see our exhibition of Sheffield’s award-winning eco-friendly organisations.

We had a fantastic mix of people from diverse backgrounds including: students, researchers, project managers and Directors from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Transition Porter Valley, Corus, East End Quality of Life Initiative, Burngreave Community Action Forum and Nether Edge Neighbourhood Group.

We are proud to announce our Open Planning Meeting on Tuesday 24th June 2008 from 4.00pm – 7.00 pm.

Room 1237, 12th Floor of Sheffield Hallam University’s The Owen Building, City Centre Campus

Guest Speaker:  Darryl Dawson of award-winning PR Consultancy Firm, Connexions PR will talk on the value of USPs (Unique Selling Points) and its affect on AFIs activities.

We are also proud to present AFI’s plans for future activities, growth and income generation developed in association with Sheffield Community Enterprise Development Unit (SCEDU) as well as our Annual Report.

To confirm your place please call or text Wendy on 0788 280 3550/07946 453 258 or use our contact form.

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 Deal for Communities Board; Peter Bradfield, a researcher at the think tank, Demos;
* Magda Reed, a former Consultant with Council for Ethnic Minority Voluntary Organisations (CEMVO) & Director of MRA;
* Ashley Sweetland, Trustee of UK Youth Parliament & Director of Corporate Culture;
* Perry Walker, Head of Participation & Democracy at the leading think tank, nef (new economics foundation).

Developed ground-breaking research on the issues affecting inclusion for people with communications disorders.

Contributed to research undertaken by the University of Sheffield research on the misconception of “hard to reach groups”.

Contributed to The Hansard Society’s report on Digital Dialogues Pilot Study for the Department of Constitutional Affairs in April 2007.

On a more practical footing, we have actively and heavily helped our Sheffield communities affected by the recent floods.