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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Listening to The Swell Season first album now. RIP Glen Hansard.

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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🔋☀️ Community investment is powering the UK's clean energy future. @lowcarbonhub.bsky.social has raised more than £640K for the UK's first community-owned solar park battery, surpassing its original target and increasing community ownership of the project 👏 www.thenews.coop/fundraising-...

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Nonprofit Tech for Good @nonprofitorgs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Introducing Claude Corps! 🎉 anthropic.com/news/claude-... @anthropic.com will teach 1,000 fellows how to use Claude well, match them with nonprofits across America, and pay them $85,000 + benefits to spend a year—full-time, in-person—helping host organizations advance their missions.

anthropic.com

Introducing Claude Corps

We’re launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program for people early in their careers who are passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

www.theguardian.com/business/202... and so it goes on Feels unlikely to me that neither the charity nor the private company knew of the bonus payments....but this saga is nothing if not surprising in many different ways....

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City & Guilds bosses awarded themselves millions in bonuses, investigation finds

Report finds Kirstie Donnelly and Abid Ismail paid bonuses ‘without authorisation or knowledge’ of superiors

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Important research by our team at @thesocialinvest.bsky.social on the ongoing impact of energy bills on charities, social enterprises and community groups. Such a crucial area for action - where environmental, financial and social benefits combine. www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/charity...

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I hope he pointed out the light fixture next to the font is a smaller model of the font. Holst as well. And obvs William Huskisson memorial - first railway accident fatality.

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Yes! Buyers' remorse is in full effect. Even Tucker Carlson is backtracking on support for Trump these days!

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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I had a tour of the new 224 Youth Zone for South Bristol, and it was very impressive. Have a look here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

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First look inside incredible new £12m '224 Youth Zone'

"It’s top of the range stuff - it shows we believe the young people are important to invest in"

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Am in Starbucks for the first time in a while. I considered ordering an Iced Ube Vanilla Velvet Matcha Latte with additional Protein Cold Foam. But settled for a black Americano. #coffee

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

‘Why did the USSR, with its fantastic scientists and engineers and heavy investment in STEM, nevertheless stagnate?’ Excoriating from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social on the undervaluing of social science and humanities research blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Geoff Mulgan
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The myth of STEM only growth holds back the UK

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Such a concerning case - though the fact that *banning these enormous cars from near schools* isn’t the main point of learning still feels bizarre to me.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 01/04/2026

Four weeks ago I asked billionaire Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital if they'd been issuing fake electrical safety papers to their tenants. Why? Because when we went door-to-door, we kept noticing the paperwork was curiously identical. And tenants said they'd never seen an electrician. Little thread:

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Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

V glad Mr Nobody Against Putin won best documentary. Excellent and enlightening film

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Update - LBFEW now has an 'Acting Chair' according to the website (cc @hetanshah.bsky.social )

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I think what's also bizarre is that the remaining charity (now with the proceeds of the sale) is going ahead recruiting a CEO & a Chair. Which seems an interesting decision given the context - micro.green-park.co.uk/city-guilds-...

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Yes, I'm afraid so. Even though it bears little resemblance to the vast majority of charities up and down the country - indeed, I don't think I've ever seen a case like this in 25 years in the sector. A charity CEO/CFO moving with the asset they are selling - and getting £1m+ golden hello on arrival

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Times also misses that Dame Limb is also still chair of Lloyd’s Bank Foundation of England & Wales

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It’s been in Guardian, FE Week and charity sector press (belatedly). But FWIW I think it is potentially an extremely significant charity scandal. Tom Bewick (education specialist) Substack has done vg coverage

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I think I went off on something of a late night rant; which at least distracted me from the risk register I was trying to finish...

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Oh no, wait, I'm just constrained by the "horizon of the thinkable, shaped by a late-stage industrial paradigm". aka wanting things to happen But as your community floods, your community building can't pay its energy bills, and no-one has a job, you can always remember "when in fog, hold hands"

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I've just read a blog post on the emergent futures/imagination infrastructure which ends with a clarion call for capacity (to do this work); I don't disagree; I'm not sure a *45 minute* blog post screams "we're really aware of everyone's capacity stretch".

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It's like a theoretical game with a self-reinforcing group of people, all well-funded but delivering the square root of absolutely no tangible outputs. No lives changed - or even lives touched. But eyeballs dried out? Brains fried? Check.

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I listened to a podcast with the Systemic Investment people on recently; and they literally say "we spent 18 months coming up with the conceptual framework; then we thought - we must think about how this is applied in practice"; when asked what success would look like in 3 or 5 yrs, no answer!

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Almost as bemusing: the best minds of my generation in the social sector/impact economy seem to be "thinking about how to write the longest and most complicated blog posts or essays which use the word 'systemic' or 'emergent'" whilst doing nothing practical of the requisite scale or urgency.

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I can't remember who said "the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people to click ads"; maybe it should now be "how to increase productivity to the point of maximum wealth inequality and minimal human labour"

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 22/02/2026

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

londoncentric.media

Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction?

He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Can see my comms team thinking I should do something similar for social investment.

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The link is to WMCA’s specific social economy work, which not everyone knows of. Sorry if not helpful. Good luck with it all.

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I'm not sure the risk of snake oil is that high, but that aside - I'd start with orgs in the area - Murray Hall got COF £ and Power to Change £; then there's wider Black Country (BHCG dudleyci.co.uk/services/sav... // All Saints - www.asan.org.uk/enterprise/c...) & WM www.wmca.org.uk/what-we-do/e...

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I agree - though seems like learning/people also involved in ICON. TNLCF running Community Wealth Fund instead.

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Maybe, although lots of experience/tested approaches - we've been running the Youth Investment Fund for govt for last 3.5 years, working with hundreds of small community organisations *and* local authorities - on new community buildings (in this case youth centres)...

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

….and PiP isn’t devolved/endowed outside govt in the way Big Local was. There’s also an urgency and scale to some of what we face (now) that also highlights the trade-off with pace that comes with some community development.

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

FWIW, it’s an interesting & pertinent read. I think it underestimates pace & time horizons a bit; by the time PiP £ gets to communities, we might not be that far out from an election….

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Surely the starting point would be the very agencies / existing networks you mention in the piece? (Locality, Power to Change et al). One thing we aren’t short of is consortiums of community-led development….

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FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🚨City & Guilds chief executive Kirstie Donnelly and chief finance officer Abid Ismail will be 'absent' from their roles 'for a short time' feweek.co.uk/top-two-city...

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Top two City & Guilds execs placed on leave

City & Guilds’ chief executive Kirstie Donnelly and chief finance officer Abid Ismail will "be absent from work for a short period”, staff were told

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Not sure why this is not getting more attention in charity sector. If Guardian reporting is correct, we're talking about a charity CEO & FD benefitting personally from £1m+ bonuses, having sold off a charitable asset. cc @thirdsector.co.uk @civilsociety.bsky.social See also tombewick.substack.com

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Just wrong. Zipcar flex cheaper than an Uber every time. And you’re underestimating the convenience factor for longer trips. Gladly pay more to not have to spend ages going to car hire place, fill out forms, etc etc

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is deeply crap news. Not had a car in London for 20 years, and use Zipcar all the time….bah!

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Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

More inspiration for our next team away day #leadership

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