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ABSTRACT: A network of autonomous Daily Communal Restaurants (DCRs) serving bulk-cooked, affordable, nutritious food would cultivate deep community spirit and generate far-reaching benefits. 2020 brought us widespread isolation, atomisation and disunity. To capitalise on a common urge to make up for lost time and repair wounds, DCRs can bring people together by recreating long-lost communityContinue reading “Daily Communal Restaurants can bring communities back together, stronger than ever, improving lives, ending poverty”

The policy proposal for the NHS Capacity challenge identified in Q1b above is to create an NHS Reserve or Territorial Army akin o the military’s TA. Objective: To build a trained and experienced reserve team, able to to support the NHS in times of crisis or seasonal work overload. Principles: The NHS would identify specificContinue reading “A Territorial Army for the NHS”

As identified in section 1, there is a great opportunity to capitalise on the willingness of individuals to help the community. This would be achieved by utilising the vast pool of knowledge and experience held by recently retired teachers to help tutor children in home-schooling, whilst they are in isolation at home, when their schoolsContinue reading “How to build a register of ‘qualified’ volunteers to help tutor with homeschooling.”

The coronavirus pandemic is a physical health emergency on a global scale, such as we have never seen in our lifetimes. But it is also a mental health emergency. Both the coronavirus illness itself and the measures governments have had to take to contain it are placing enormous stress on people’s emotional health and wellbeing.Continue reading “Mental Health for all: Responding to the urgent need for systems designed for equality”

As the pandemic grew, people abandoned urban areas for new lives in hamlets, villages and towns across the UK. Properties values in these areas grew, especially those areas with a convenient city link, as demand for larger living spaces which suited a work from home environment became a new priority. Meanwhile businesses across the UKContinue reading “Revitalise communities through government backed, shared work hubs for the “work from home” future.”

Tackling obesity and its causes requires coordinated interventions on three fronts, educational, health and commercial/regulatory, bringing together different participants like health professionals (including GP’s), schools, supermarkets and food producers. On the educational front, encompassing both the education sector itself and wider public messaging , there are a number of interventions. Young people from a veryContinue reading “OBESITY-THE SOLUTION”

All creative development involves risk. Whether in video game development, a play script, a new rap artist. Yet this is not the sort of risk that banks, VCs or the City are prepared to invest in as it is ‘unproven’, ‘risky’, with uncertain outcomes. Investment is generally made by the creators themselves, small companies, byContinue reading “Widening of the HMRC R&D tax credit mechanism to encompass creative development”

To tackle the problem of air pollution, particularly in urban areas, we need to improve our green infrastructure. In particular I am suggesting that urban hedges should be planted to reduce air pollution. In the 2019 general election political parties competed in their pledges to plant millions of trees to combat climate change and toContinue reading “Turning over a new leaf: a plan for cleaner air”

Current food labelling is not fit for purpose, and the ‘traffic light scheme’ labelling (which is currently voluntary) is so often abused as to try and hide the actual level of calories inside a package of food. So often they will show the calories/fat/salt for 1/4th of a pack of a food you would neverContinue reading “A unified governmnent strategy to get the nation counting calories, and reduce Obesity”

It has been estimated that there are some 2.4 million adult illiterates in the UK. Many of them are within the ranks of the unemployed or are convicted criminals. These are people who have been let down by the education system not equipping them with a fundamental life skill. We can correct this. First, weContinue reading “A QUICK WIN: ONE MILLION VOLUNTEERS TO TEACH ONE MILLION ADULT ILLITERATES TO READ.”