Rebuilding Riot-Hit London: Funding And Fixing
£50 million from City Hall for long-term investment, as a grassroots rebuilding initiative launches.
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£10m For Thirty Projects In Outer London Boroughs
Cash awarded to help regenerate town centres and high streets.
Wilton’s To Stay Open Thanks To Support From Its Fans
Public donations and sheer determination keep the Tower Hamlets music hall going
British Basketball Backed By FIBA, Funding Cut By Sport England
Our ballers will compete in 2012 but participation in the grassroots sport needs a bit of a bounce.
Arts Council England Announce Funding Decisions
Some arts organisations have been hit hard in the funding announcement. Who were the winners and losers?
Basketball Backed For 2012 Olympics In Basketball Week
Watch out for the mobile basketball court popping up across London this week ahead of NBA games at the O2 this weekend.
Student Protests: The Days Ahead
Further student protests and sit-ins are expected in the coming days as Thursday’s vote on higher education funding approaches. Here’s what to expect…
Science Is Vital: Researchers Rally In Whitehall To Save Funding
Hundreds of scientists, medics, engineers and other researchers will assemble in Whitehall tomorrow to protest about funding cuts. The Science Is Vital campaign has secured support from over 20,000 petition signatories, who believe that funding for research is vital to the UK’s economy and should …
Mark Wallinger Leads Fight Against Arts Cuts
A new campaign to save arts funding gained momentum today with this Banksy-like image from Mark Wallinger. The artist, famous for his 1999 fourth plinth commission Ecco Homo and the giant white horse set to go up in Kent, has spent ten minutes in Photoshop …
London Met Board Resigns To Save University
Image by Gaz-zee-boh from the Londonist Flickr pool Following an almighty balls-up in keeping tabs on student numbers at London Metropolitan University – which netted them £36m in extra payments – all members of the board who were present during what HEFCE’s calling the ‘worst …
Freedom Pass Funding Farrago Hits Councils
Image by *version-3-point-1 from the Londonist Flickr pool Councils are going to be hit hard by a government plan to halve Freedom Pass funding. An agreement made in 2008 was supposed to guarantee £58m for London’s pensioner travel in 2010/11, but Transport Minister Sadiq Khan …
