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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Laurie Knell. It was first published in February 2021.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit:

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Course image: https://wordart.com

Figure 1: Pixabay https://pixabay.com/ photos/ team-friendship-group-hands-4529717/

Figure 2: Community Empowerment Act (Scotland) https://www.dtni.org.uk/ op-ed/ time-change-time-ni-community-rights-act

Figure 3: Localism Act 2011 England https://www.dtni.org.uk/ op-ed/ time-change-time-ni-community-rights-act

Figure 4: Pixabay https://pixabay.com/ photos/ child-boy-people-emotion-park-774063/

Figure 5: Pixabay https://pixabay.com/ photos/ agree-agreement-asian-black-1238964/

Figure 6: courtesy: Scottish Community Development Centre https://www.scdc.org.uk/

Figure 7: poster: ‘The Big Dish Out’ a local example that was delivered by the ‘Waste No Time Team’ with support from the Causeway Coast and Glens local council.

Audio-visual

Video 1 and 2: Angela McCann © The Open University (2020)

Video 3: Robert Örell © The Open University (2020)

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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