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I understand that a system such as Universal Credit (UC) will always have cases where individuals suffer due to the its scale. However, I do not believe I can be one of few such in this instance. The system essentially cripples those who were on monthly incomes at a time they are most vulnerable. TheContinue reading “A Niche Fix to a Big Gap”

Summary: The UK government has committed to become a net-zero carbon emissions nation by 2050. Many businesses and organisations would like to achieve net-zero themselves a lot sooner, so government should setup a national scheme to enable them to do so, helping spur the push to net-zero and dispersing the cost of achieving it. Policy:Continue reading “A Nudge to Net-Zero – Creating a National Net-Zero Certification Scheme”

Summary: The policy response to the under-tapped economic potential of over-50s women should be the creation of a government-sponsored national platform (called ‘Portfolio Women’ or similar, to represent a step-change in career). It would act as an accessible and user-friendly cross between Mumsnet and LinkedIn for women aged over 50, with official backing from theContinue reading “A bespoke networking platform for employment, entrepreneurship and re-training for over-50s women”

Issues with current volunteering process: 1. Often inflexible time options (e.g. lots of opportunities throughout the working day, or minimum time commitments); 2. Often not accessible/inclusive (e.g. travel); 3. Opportunity cost to society when not everyone can afford to volunteer; 4. Slow to achieve impact (manual matching/application process, hard to gather group of volunteers). Solution:Continue reading “Capitalising on volunteering for all – ‘Crowd-resourcing platform’!”

Using the topical meeting of 99yr old Sir Captain Tom Moore and 5yr old Tony Hudgell- inspired this; We merge the social and educational services that currently exist in isolation across our towns, both physically and culturally. Immediately we make use of our empty High Street buildings to reconfigure all schools and community services intoContinue reading “Forward to the Village”

Within our community a Cornerstone was begun as a central place for a community of 3,000 to build on the trust and self-reliance established during the health crisis. The template should be promoted and encouraged across Britain. As in many neighborhoods, towns, and villages, there are underused community spaces. In our case, an empty propertyContinue reading “Create Cornerstones in every community”

A solution to this problem is to use copper-based alloys and paints instead of aluminium or stainless steel which are currently used in hospitals, GP surgeries, dental practices as well schools and offices. The role of copper to eliminate disease has been known since at least ancient Egyptian times but the mechanism only began toContinue reading “The Role of Copper Alloys and Paints to Reduce the Spread of Pathogens”

Despite a strong global economy at the start of 2020, the Edelman Trust Barometer showed a distinct lack of trust in UK government, business and NGOs, calling for more ethical behaviour by societal institutions. But with almost 70 percent of UK public agreeing that “democracy is losing its effectiveness as a form of government”, howContinue reading “Community Power: a redistribution of wealth”

We will change our culture from “regardless of what I do the NHS is there to fix me” to “I am responsible for my own health, the government will support me in my choices and the NHS is there for emergencies.” Whilst being fit is a good idea, you can’t exercise your way out ofContinue reading “Eat for Britain”

Background: The official figure for the number of people sleeping rough on the streets of England is 4,266 of which 1,136 are in London. These figures have increased by 141% and 173% respectively since 2010. It is thought by many that these figures are a considerable underestimate but for the purposes of this proposal theContinue reading “The Salvus initiative”