In looking for a convenient place to meet up with somebody the other month we found ourselves back in Thame, Oxfordshire and used the opportunity to look back on our retail distinctiveness work from 2010. From a distance we had heard through twitter and facebook the growing appeal of Thame’s Food Festival and that the [...]
As the UK economy officially returned to recession this week – the first time since 2009, it felt like a good time to take stock of why the dreaded double-dip recession has indeed hit as was so often promised, as well as looking forward to see what current thinking suggests what the rest of 2012 [...]
Almost three years has passed since Miller Research left the North Staffordshire town of Newcastle Under Lyme, so a trip to the home of the iconic oatcake was in order to review how the Council and its partners had embraced some of key ideas on improving the town centre offer through our retail distinctiveness work. [...]
On Thursday I will be travelling to New York to embark upon a 3-month sabbatical in the Division for Sustainable Development at the United Nations Head Quarters in Manhattan. I will be working with the policy and networks team on a number of projects to support the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The [...]
Over the next few months we will be spotlighting Miller staff to get a feel for their motivations, hobbies and highlights of their time at Miller. This month we focus on Senior Consultant Kerry Lewis. If you weren’t doing this, what would you have liked to have been? I would like to have trained as [...]
The Welsh Government has once again reopened applications for the Communities and Facilities Activities Programme (CFAP). CFAP is a European and Welsh Government funded programme to assist community and voluntary organisations provide facilities and/or carry out activities which will help promote and further the regeneration of Welsh communities. CFAP was launched in 2002 and has [...]
Welcome to the fourth of six videos that were filmed at the Abergavenny Food Festival Conference 2011. The videos are posted periodically and hope to attract an audience far larger than those fortunate enough to attend. The event is about a sharing of ideas and we believe those ideas shouldn’t be confined within the walls [...]
There has been widespread news coverage of numeracy in England this week, raising the issue that although adult literacy levels continue to increase, numeracy skills are both declining and often perceived to be less important. The point is frequently made that it is quite acceptable to say “I’m no good at maths”, whereas to admit [...]
Welcome to the third of six talks that were filmed at the Abergavenny Food Festival Conference 2011. The talks are posted periodically and hope to attract an audience far larger than those fortunate enough to attend. The event is about a sharing of ideas and we believe those ideas shouldn’t be confined within the walls [...]
Lots of talk in recent months about the decline of our High Street, loss of big names, rise of the internet, who’s got the highest vacancy rate. Mary Portas assembles the issues for us and sets out some ideas that either haven’t been grasped hold of or have been in our toolkits for years. Does the [...]
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