Time was, the proverb went “Where there’s muck, there’s brass.”
But now Calderdale is part of a West Yorkshire hotspot for positive investors – people who invest their savings in businesses that create positive social and environmental results, as well as making money.
This information is included in Positive Investing in the United Kingdom, a report by Ethex, the UK’s first online exchange for positive investments.
Changing More Than Lightbulbs’ main writer & editor is attending the UK Coops/Carnegie Trust workshop in Manchester, to find out about their Make Local News Work scheme. Hoping to learn more about how CMTL can develop into a hyperlocal news coop – along the lines of the pretty great Brixton Blog.
A CMTL steering group is forming, to work out how this can happen.
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Cardiff Community Journalism Conference says hyperlocal media – like Upper Calder Vallyey’s very own Changing More Than Lightbulbs – are brilliant!