How can we best work together in Ashbrow?
Live or work in Ashbrow? Come and share stories about how we can best work together to make our local places better. Join in our workshop on Tuesday 18 June at The Top Club.
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Growing Great Places
Growing Great Places is our new community crowdfunding programme to support citizens and organisations who have great ideas for making our local places even better.
Restoration begins on Batley’s historic Charter
Kirklees Council and West Yorkshire Archive Service are delighted to announce that as part of the Batley 150 celebrations we’re working together to restore the remarkable document that created the Borough of Batley exactly 150 years ago.
Working Group – 16th January 2019
Our Working Group discussed Civic Pathways for Young Citizens, including our work with NCS, apprenticeships and work placements, projects with schools, voter registration activities, Kirklees Youth Council and work with the University of Huddersfield.
Working Group – 28th November 2018
Here’s an overview of the Kirklees Democracy Commission Working Group meeting on Wednesday 28th November 2018. We discussed work to improve our content about council decision-making and work to involve our young citizens in local democracy.
Letter from Rishi Sunak MP, Minister for Local Government
During Local Democracy Week 2018, we wrote an open letter to Rishi Sunak MP, Minister for Local Government and Lord Porter of Spalding, Chair of the Local Government Association about our recommendations for Government and the LGA about support for councillors. Here is the response we received from Rishi Sunak MP.
Working Group – 24th October 2018
Here’s an overview of the Kirklees Democracy Commission Working Group meeting on Wednesday 24th October 2018.
Face to face with our councillors and officers
We’ve invited some of our officers and councillors to go face to face in a new series of videos.
Putting councillors at the heart of what we do
We’ve started some practical work in Kirklees to put councillors at the heart of our organisation.
An open letter to Rishi Sunak MP, Minister for Local Government & Lord Porter, Chair of the Local Government Association
We’ve written an open letter to Rishi Sunak MP, Minister for Local Government and Lord Porter of Spalding, Chair of the Local Government Association about our recommendations for Government and the LGA about support for councillors.