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This article focuses on information specific to the United Kingdom. Please see our CASwiki resources page for an overview.

Resources

  • Citizens Advice (previously Citizens Advice Bureau and also known as Cyngor ar Bopeth in Welsh) is a network of 338 independent charities throughout the United Kingdom that give free, confidential information and advice to assist people with money, legal, consumer and other problems. The twin aims of the Citizens Advice service are "to provide the advice people need for the problems they face" and secondly "to improve the policies and principles that affect people's lives" a research and campaigns agenda known as "social policy". W
  • Community How To, doing more with digital
  • Just Act, "practical advice for anyone wanting to make a difference and improve their community."
  • yourrights.org.uk, Liberty's guide to Human Rights. Liberty (formally known as the National Council for Civil Liberties]) is an advocacy group, which campaigns to protect civil liberties and promote human rights – through the courts, in Parliament and in the wider community. W
  • You’ve got the power: a quick and simple guide to community rights gov.uk

Citizens data initiative

DataShine:Census

UK Environmental Change Network

Full Fact, independent factchecking organisation

Neighbourhood Statistics, Office for National Statistics

Open Data Communities, Datasets

OS OpenData

TheyWorkForYou, "takes open data from the UK Parliament, and presents it in a way that’s easy to follow – for everyone."

WhatDoTheyKnow, make and browse freedom of information requests

Campaigns

Open Rights Group, works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues and by fostering a community of grassroots activists. It campaigns on numerous issues including mass surveillance, internet filtering and censorship, and intellectual property rights. W

Commons UK

Funding

  • 95 tips to help your community crowdfund, Just Act
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Legal resources

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Environmental Law Foundation

EarthRights Solicitors

Maps

Environment and Health Atlas - Map of Green Britain, Friends of the Earth - MAGIC website providing geographic information about the natural environment from across government. The information covers rural, urban, coastal and marine environments across Great Britain - UK Tax Haven Map - Waste of space map, campaign (July 2014) to raise awareness of the ‘brownfield first’ solution - Wellbeing mapper

Commons: Atlas of the United Kingdom

Networks

Research

Video

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News and comment

2017

This is how we take back control: from the bottom up, George Monbiot, Feb 8 [1]

2015

My data is bigger than yours - five steps towards better data projects - RSA, December 10 [2]

How the Soup project is changing the UK , October 3 [3]

Rekindling Kindliness: Learning from Hebden Bridge, March 31 [4]

2013

Simple Map Making With Google Fusion Tables, May 1. Attribution: Tony Hirst. [5]

Edge Fund: a new grassroots fund for social justice, April 3 [6]

2012

A long-held ambition realised as the ODI opens officially, December 4 [7]

See also


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