{"id":1808,"date":"2010-09-22T15:47:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T15:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2010-09-22T15:47:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T15:47:43","slug":"civic-voice-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"Civic Voice: update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Civic Voice is the new national charity for the civic movement in England, and an update on progress is provided below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<\/span>We launched in April 2010 after a comprehensive debate about what  the civic movement needed to build a stronger future following closure  of the Civic Trust in April 2009.\u00a0 We are immensely grateful to everyone  who helped in these discussions. Civic Voice believes everyone has the  right to live somewhere they can be proud of.\u00a0 We work to make places  more attractive, enjoyable and distinctive and to promote civic pride.\u00a0  We speak up for hundreds of civic societies and local communities all  across England.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nearly\u00a0260 civic societies have joined in our first five months, with  nearly 70,000 individual members.\u00a0 We are well represented in cities,  suburbs, towns and villages.\u00a0 Local groups pay \u00a31.50 per member up to a  maximum of \u00a3500.\u00a0 There is also a growing membership of individuals  (\u00a310) and organisations, with more details on our website.\u00a0 This is a  strong start and key to Civic Voice gaining financial independence by  having its core costs covered by membership and donations from within  the civic movement.\u00a0 We also receive funding from CLG, Esm\u00e9e Fairbairn  Foundation and English Heritage.\u00a0 Our President is Griff Rhys Jones, our  Chair is Paula Ridley\u00a0and our Director is Tony Burton.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You can keep in touch with what we do through our website (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.civicvoice.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.civicvoice.org.uk<\/a><\/span>) and on twitter (@civic_voice) and through issues of <em>civic <\/em>or join us and get involved.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For Civic Voice\u2019s first ever convention and AGM, on 8-9 October see: <a href=\" http:\/\/www.civicvoice.org.uk\/news\/civic-voices-first-ever-agm-8th-and-9th-october-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.civicvoice.org.uk\/news\/civic-voices-first-ever-agm-8th-and-9th-october-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civic Voice is the new national charity for the civic movement in England, and an update on progress is provided below. &#8216;We launched in April 2010 after a comprehensive debate about what the civic movement needed to build a stronger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1808\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}