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New Year’s Honours

Posted on 12/30/201508/05/2024 by Jess Steele

Big congratulations to Jericho Road Solutions founder Jess Steele, who has been awarded an OBE for Services to Community Assets in the UK in the New Year’s Honours list.

Read more here.

Jess Steele OBE

Posted in Jericho Road Solutions, Spinning Plates

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Locality 2015
1,000 Days
2021
  • The New Cross Massacre / The Deptford Fire / The Black People’s Day of Action
2020
  • Thoughts about Hastings Pier 10 years after the fire
  • Crisis, Recovery, Transition, Legacy
  • Thoughts in a crisis
  • Whoever is Hastings’ new leader, let’s go to Wigan!
2019
  • The Lion & the Unicorn
  • Heart Break – Ore Valley let down again
  • A Great Leap Forwards
  • Statement regarding Hastings Pier
  • A working life as a community activist
2018
  • How the Money Works Part 2: Rock House
  • How the money works
  • Hastings Pier – where our hearts are
  • Pride in Hastings Pier
  • Hastings Pier… 3 things you can do to help
  • Water OMG!
  • Investing Upside Down (ppt)
  • Friends Again!
2017
  • I am losing my heart to Ore Valley
2016
  • The Battle for Hastings Pier
  • 1,000 Days
2015
  • New Year’s Honours
  • Locality 2015
  • America Ground Pow Wow!
  • What’s happening to Hastings?
  • Two Piers and a Lesson for Local Government
2014
  • Colwyn Bay Pier – next in line and it needs your help
  • Developer Stress
  • Ground Control?
  • Roller-coaster week
  • Turning the Tide
  • 21 years of regeneration – revisited
  • Deptford Dockyard Clock in Thamesmead
  • Deptford Dockyard clocktower
2013
  • Sitting in a ditch watching stars
  • Precious Buildings
  • Delinquent ownership – a PS about the council role
  • The People’s Piers
  • Tackling irresponsible ownership
  • No resting place but a challenge constantly renewed
  • Stories as Community Action
  • A month on the Jericho Road
  • The Spaces Between – Boundary Spanning 20 years ago
  • Pier-to-Pier peer learning
  • Manchester Greater
  • Speech at the launch of Jericho Road Solutions, 15th May 2013
  • Is this real? The evil of targets
  • East London – 10 years of regeneration
  • Welfare reform & communities
2012
  • Ba-Ba-Boom! Huzzah! Wow! OMG! Thank the Gods!
  • Self-renovating neighbourhoods
  • Ministerial list, 5 Sept 12
  • Scattering virtual ashes
  • Last day in Chicago
2011
  • Chicago 5: Generations of organizers
  • Chicago 4: Grounded Theory
  • Chicago 3: All kinds of walking
  • Chicago 2: Oodles of inspiration
  • Chicago 1: The South Side & Regina
  • Detroit 3: The Funders
  • Detroit 2: Grace Lee Boggs & the Angels
  • Detroit 1: Motown
  • NYC 3: Training Day
  • NYC 2 – Occupied Wall Street, Good Old Lower East Side & University Settlement
  • New York City 1: Queens Community House
  • Transparency
  • Feeling weird about the media
  • Hosting Community Organisers
  • Civil service lessons
  • CoCollaborative
  • Biting & Feeding
  • Homage to Yorkshire
  • Twitchforks and the real story
  • Recruitment underway
  • Demob happy – fragments
  • Compulsory Purchase
  • A Week Away, Brain-food from Hay
  • How dare the Lord?
  • Kickstarters & Hosts
  • Community Organisers – clarifications
  • Transparency, creativity, power & responsibility
  • Back to the Seaside
  • I mean it about open… but there’s no need to be nasty!
  • More on #thepeoplespier
  • Big Society – definite or indefinite?
  • The Beauty of the Feedback Loop
  • Policy and Practice – still bridging after all these years
  • Community Organisers – another step forwards
  • JUST SAY YES TO THE PEOPLE’S PIER
  • Starship Organisers Week 2
  • Community Organisers – Programme Manager’s blog
2010
  • Decentralisation & the DTA
  • DTA conference 2010
  • STEP up
  • Seasider
  • Seaside Enterprise Partnership
  • King of the Seaside
  • Lessons from Southport
  • Too busy to blog…
  • ‘Bradford Sur Mer’
  • Scarborough – quintessential seaside
  • Cromer
  • Great Yarmouth
  • Pretty, pretty Southwold
  • Seaside Tour Blog
  • We’re off to the seaside!
  • Australia’s Leading Meanwhilers
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