Civic Voice launches with Love Local campaign
Civic Voice - the new national charity for the civic movement –– is launched today (Saturday 17 April) with fresh evidence of our passion for making the places where we all live more attractive, enjoyable and distinctive.
The first results of Civic Voice’s new Love Local campaign are available on Civic Voice’s new website at http://www.civicvoice.org.uk/campaigns/love-local/ where everyone is being invited to say what they love about where they live and why.
The results show that a friendly and active community with peaceful green spaces nearby, a wide range of cultural activities and independent shops and markets, a strong sense of history in buildings and architecture, and people willing to get up and do something for their local area score highest. People are also fearful that they will lose historic buildings and street pattern, green fields and open spaces and the independent shops and markets that they love about their area.
Speaking at the launch of Civic Voice, Griff Rhys Jones said, “Civic Voice is being launched as the nation debates its political future and communities are campaigning for more care and control over what happens in their local area. The time is ripe for a powerful new voice that helps turn local action into national movement to make the places where we all live more attractive, enjoyable and distinctive.”
Tony Burton, Director of Civic Voice said, “Everyone has the right to live somewhere they can be proud of. The civic movement should be in the driving seat of a new politics which responds to the pride people have in the place where they live. Civic Voice will campaign nationally and work locally to protect the best local places and to improve those which should offer more to their communities.”