Sentences with phrase «help local councils»

He told the Commons funding would be available to help local councils rebuild and said the review of this summer's flooding would look at any lessons to be taken from the past few days.

Oral Questions - Tackling wildlife crime - Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer; Comparing the level of railway fares in the UK with those in Europe - Lord Bradshaw; Impact of the # 250 million fund set up to help local councils in England maintain or restore weekly bin collections - Lord Storey;

«Millions of homes in the UK do not have off street parking, so this funding is important to help local councils ensure that all their residents can take advantage of this revolution.»

By cancelling Whitehall advertising and consultancy budgets, a Tory government would help local council's freeze council tax for two years.

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Check in with your local Girl Scout council and see what type of help they'd like.

Five of the Yale ministers had been instrumental in helping to organize local councils.

Broadcasters encouraged the formation of local and regional councils of churches to help them cope with this issue.

The Council holds workshops for parents, couples, single people, and young people; helps to develop local community leaders; provides training in counseling for ministers and qualified laymen; and serves in an advisory capacity to the neighborhood educational system.

Many individual clergymen are providing valuable services in alcoholism education, working with local Councils on Alcoholism and helping alcoholics and their families.

Working on the principle that it is better to teach a man to fish than give him a fish or a sandwich, people, like the local council, can criticise us for encouraging the poor rather than helping them to escape poverty.

As we have said, five of them had helped to organize local Councils on Alcoholism.

Church members have helped establish local Councils on Alcoholism and have served as volunteers to «man» the information centers.

Laymen should be encouraged to serve on local Councils on Alcoholism, work as volunteers in enlightened treatment facilities and halfway houses, both because such help is often needed and because the experiences will help to modify relationship - blocking stereotypes concerning alcoholics.

A minister with migrant workers could be called to a metropolitan council of churches; involved local pastors could move to denominational commissions (and help create UTC) More than one seminary president ascribes his organizational skills to Alinsky training.

Frankly, as an allergen heavy family, I may want to write a check directly to support my local troop, but as a leader I know that it will not help support my local council or the organization as a whole as the cookies do.

Decide What Care You Need Finding respite care can be as simple as asking friends and family to help out, or as thorough as hiring a special needs caregiver or senior care aide, contacting a state agency or finding help thorough a local volunteer group, local councils on aging, senior center or your faith community, says Edgar.

Following that she spent eight years with the National Association of Home Builders and most recently served as their Director of the Executive Officers Council where her responsibilities included helping NAHBs 800 local chapters become more efficient and effective in the areas of membership, governance and communication.

You'll normally get warnings and offers of help from the local council first.

Ruth Kelly has today pledged # 5 million to help counter extremism in Britain's Muslim communities at a local level, though councils and voluntary groups.

Betts has now called on the Department for Communities and Local Government to intervene in order to help Rotherham council support the victims more effectively.

SNP policies designed to «make life easier» for families include; flexible working, improved access to childcare, investment in education including small class sizes, first - time buyers» grants worth # 2,000 to help young buyers, abolishing the council tax, more police and protecting local health services.

This is on top of a record # 6Bn for maintaining local roads, # 7Bn for the Local Growth Fund, # 1.25 Bn for local transport schemes and a further # 250M to help councils tackle road issues in their alocal roads, # 7Bn for the Local Growth Fund, # 1.25 Bn for local transport schemes and a further # 250M to help councils tackle road issues in their aLocal Growth Fund, # 1.25 Bn for local transport schemes and a further # 250M to help councils tackle road issues in their alocal transport schemes and a further # 250M to help councils tackle road issues in their areas.

Communities and councils can bid for funding to help transform the environmental performance of a street or local area.

Activists are slogging round council estates every weekend, asking about and solving local problems, often unglamorous ones such as helping rejected asylum seekers, carers needing respite and gypsies threatened with eviction.

Ministers are now calling for local authorities to do more to help reduce carbon emissions and tackle air quality, and are writing to council leaders to remind them about the scheme.

«Government could deliver a much bigger, and more beneficial, boost the construction industry by removing the cap on local authorities» housing investment which would help councils build up to 60,000 new homes.»

But it takes just minutes for them to warm to him, helped largely by the fact that he mentions that he's from «The Barn», the name used by locals to describe the Standens Barn council estate in the town.

The Chancellor recently announced that in order to help make his «Northern Powerhouse» idea reality that the Greater Manchester City Region would see itself gain an elected, «London - style» Mayor, despite residents of Manchester City Council narrowly rejecting proposals for an Directly Elected Mayor for their local authority in 2011.

The Council even reduced the budget for the local LINk which has such a vital role, anything I can do t5o help, please let me know.

Local government minister John Healey said: «It is right that councils do all they can to help people through these tough economic times - including keeping any council tax down.

The #NoCuts Coalition is comprised of the following groups and individuals: Community Voices Heard, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, Manhattan North District Council of Presidents, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), New York Communities for Change, The Black Institute, CASA - New Settlement, MFY Legal Service, Coalition for the Homeless, Pratt Center for Community Development, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Center for NYC Neighborhoods, GOLES, FUREE, Legal Aid Society, Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition, CAAAV, Brooklyn For Peace, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Community Service Society, Center for NYC Neighborhoods, Transport Workers Union Local 100, National Action Network, Racial & Economic Justice, Red Hook Initiative, Goddard Riverside Community Center, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), DC37, Picture The Homeless, Greater New York LECET, Unique People Service, United Neighborhood Houses and Supportive Housing Network of New York.

GREENWICH VILLAGE — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined community leaders at a local subway station early Thursday to help catch a suspect in last week's vicious sexual assault inside a massage parlor.

The local council's priority project this year included a focus on providing employers with on - demand access to advanced cloud computing resources, modernizing water infrastructure to help industrial businesses improve efficiency, and creating jobs through expanding the region's manufacturing industry.

QUEENS, NY — Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Stop & Shop, with help from students of I.S. 93Q, today unloaded 1,000 Easter hams off an 18 - wheeler in front of Borough Hall, donated in time for preparations for the upcoming holiday to five local Queens organizations: Catholic Charities Queens North Community Center of Astoria, Chinese - American Planning Council's Nan Shan Senior Center of Flushing, Hour Children of Long Island City, Korean Community Services Senior Centers of Corona and Flushing, and Queensbridge / Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement Senior Center of Long Island City.

Jen has worked to make utility costs more affordable, helped local governments save energy and taxpayer dollars, and organized dozens of town and city councils across the political spectrum to stop new crude oil pipelines from endangering our communities.

Jen has worked to bring down utility costs, helped local governments save energy and taxpayer dollars, and organized dozens of town and city councils across the political spectrum to stop new crude oil pipelines from endangering our communities.

Among the external players, the most powerful are the counties of Queens and the Bronx, who collectively control a large block of votes in the Council — 14 members are from Queens, another eight are from the Bronx — and have strong organizations with the ability to help move forward, or hinder, a local politician's career.

The Health Inequalities Intervention Tool is designed to help local health services and councils identify areas affected by poor health and suggest simple steps to rectify it.

Government then has a legal duty to reach agreement with councils and the Local Government Association on how it will help them.

He helped gather 4,000 signatures from locals determined to keep them operating in the town centre, forcing the city council to back down.

As you may know, the Act enables councils working in co-operation with their communities to get Government help to assist them in reversing the decline of local services, dealing with fuel poverty, protecting the environment and obtaining greater involvement in civic activity.

To make the living wage a reality, Tompkins County would need to pass a «home - rule» request to New York state seeking the authority to implement a local minimum wage; and to help leverage the decision, a copy of the resolution would be forwarded to the Tompkins County Legislature, the Tompkins County Council of Governments, state Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, D - Ithaca, Sen. Tom O'Mara, R - Big Flats, and Cuomo.

However, the housing minister said new guidance to councils will enable them to help people who have been waiting the longest and those in rural areas who have strong local or family connections.

It comes as it emerged ministers will tomorrow announce that local authorities will be allowed to raise council tax bills by 6 % over the next two years to help raise cash for social care.

«Instead of chastising and denigrating local authorities through the media, the government should deploy all its effort to help councils minimise the impact on vulnerable communities and front - line services.»

Monday: George Osborne announces two year freeze in council tax for local councils that help to deliver economies (Watch).

The Legislature voted to have the state fire prevention and building code council report on standardizing state and local building codes to help increase installations of solar and wind energy generating systems.

CITY HALL — Local leaders from East Harlem and the South Bronx are calling on City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to help redraw District 8 council lines they believe will be fairer to both neighboCouncil Speaker Christine Quinn to help redraw District 8 council lines they believe will be fairer to both neighbocouncil lines they believe will be fairer to both neighborhoods.

Westminster Council leader Cllr Colin Barrow says that among other things they are paying their bills early, freezing Council Tax, boosting apprenticeships and helping local shops.

«Cornwall Council has been working closely with local Jobcentres to ensure that there is help and support available for those who may have difficulties when they start claiming Universal Credit.