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24/05/2013

TestTown finalists revealed

Carnegie UK Trust has revealed the shortlist of young entrepreneurs and their companies who will compete in the final of TestTown, Britain’s biggest town centre enterprise challenge, this June. 

21/05/2013

Series of events launched to support new business models for local media

Co-operatives UK, the trade association for co-operative businesses, in partnership with Carnegie UK Trust, has today launched a series of free events to invite communities to take control of their local media through new co-operative approaches to ownership.

16/05/2013

Carnegie UK Trust announces Neighbourhood News winners

Carnegie UK Trust has revealed the five winning projects of its £50,000 ‘Neighbourhood News’ initiative which was set up to help develop innovative ways of producing local news.

10/05/2013

Carnegie UK Trust calls for a new approach to innovate Welsh public services

Findings published today by two of the countries’ leading think tanks have called for a radical new approach to innovate the management and delivery of Welsh public services.

02/05/2013

HRH The Princess Royal marks our centenary

HRH The Princess Royal visited Andrew Carnegie’s hometown of Dunfermline yesterday to help mark the centenary of the Carnegie UK Trust.

30/04/2013

Top level judging panel revealed for TestTown

Carnegie UK Trust has unveiled the judging panel for the innovative TestTown project.

23/04/2013

Tackling digital exclusion - Trust publishes new research

The Trust has today published a new report examining the low level of internet take-up in Glasgow.

17/04/2013

Pioneering Philanthropy - our centenary book launched today

Today we launched a book which marks our centenary year and describes some of the Trust's most interesting and wide-ranging achievements.

07/04/2013

International celebration of philanthropy launched with priceless Andy Warhol exhibition

A priceless Andy Warhol exhibition will form the centrepiece of a week-long celebration of Andrew Carnegie’s philanthropy after the Carnegie UK Trust and the Scottish Parliament announced a deal to bring over 40 Warhol pieces to Scotland, many of which are being shown in the country for the first time.

05/04/2013

Carnegie UK Trust receives great response to Neighbourhood News project

The Carnegie UK Trust has thanked local commercial media and civil society organisations for the great response it has received to its £50,000 competition to improve local news reporting 'Neighbourhood News'.

11/03/2013

New report - future investment in rural broadband

The Trust and the Community Broadband Network launch joint discussion paper

28/02/2013

Trust launches Test Town

£10,000 prize competition for young people to help rejuvenate town centres

19/02/2013

Deadline approaching for Neighbourhood News

There are now only two weeks left to apply to Neighbourhood News, the Trust’s £50,000 competition to improve local news reporting.

29/01/2013

Carnegie UK Trust sponsors Respublica conference - Future of the Press: Does hyperlocal deserve the hype?

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16/01/2013

Invitation to Tender - Feasibility study on economic literacy training

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10/01/2013

Carnegie UK Trust launches competition to improve local news reporting

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