Culture
11 May 2012
A music competition has been launched giving bands and DJs across the UK the chance to play at this year’s Sunrise Celebration festival
01 May 2012
An online service is helping provide unique travel experiences by connecting visitors with like-minded locals who act as guides or share their knowledge. Jini Reddy tries it out and discovers the hidden jewels of the Yorkshire coast
UK / Arts, Culture, Sustainable Development
14 Apr 2012
Sunrise festival hopes to inspire a shift in consciousness to enable a more sustainable world to be created
10 Apr 2012
With an eye on the changing social and economic landscape, folk artist Martha Tilston is leading a revival of the protest song, discovers Caspar Walsh
05 Apr 2012
Sunrise Celebration promises to be a vibrant party while raising awareness about issues such as Tibet
05 Apr 2012
A pilot section has opened on the Mary Michael Pilgrims Way, a new 250-mile walking route being established between Cornwall and Norfolk
04 Apr 2012
A festival of of Anglo-Indian art, music and philosophy will celebrate the life of India’s Nobel Prize-winning poet and philosopher Rabindrinath Tagore, over the Easter weekend
27 Mar 2012
An arts venue and cafe in Peckham worked with the Royal Court Theatre to bring its productions into the local community
27 Mar 2012
Tania Ahsan visits the first major exhibition of new large-scale landscape works by David Hockney RA, at The Royal Academy of Arts
Trust calls for independent media regulator
05 Mar 2012
One of the UK’s most well known charitable trusts has called for a global independent media regulator, with “substantial, non-statutory powers.”
London to improve cyclists’ safety
Global, UK / Sustainable Development, Travel, Wellbeing
14 Feb 2012
Cycling phenomenon Critical Mass celebrates two decades of reclaiming the roads
Africa, Europe, Global / Travel
24 Jan 2012
Completing the first leg of a unique around-the-world journey through the length of six continents, Steve Fabes found Africa to be a life-affirming place
22 Jan 2012
A new desert retreat with ‘Extreme Pilgrim’ Peter Owen Jones in the Sinai wilderness offers the chance to get a different perspective
06 Dec 2011
Advances in our knowledge and understanding of animal sentience are compelling us to reconsider our prejudices toward animals
02 Dec 2011
Red-nosed performers are bringing laughter, joy and theatrical mayhem to children living in refugee camps, orphanages and conflict zones