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National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux - Providing assistance with legal problems, including debt and consumer issues, benefits, housing, legal matters, employment and immigration.
The Royal Agricultural Society of England - Charity devoted to the advancement of British agriculture through good science and stewardship. Organizers of the Royal Show, the Town and Country Festival and The Amateur Gardening Spring Show.
On the Line - Educational millennium project involving cultural exchange between United Kingdom and other meridian line countries.
RuralNet UK Rural Development Network - A network run by National Rural Enterprise Centre, an offshoot of The Royal Agricultural Society of England. Aims to create suport networks to help rural interests such as businesses. Online discussion "conferences", details of training services and other support available as well as contact information.
National Rural Enterprise Centre - Part of the Communications Department of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Aims to help rural communities improve their economies by providing research, consultancy and information transfer. Information about projects and initiatives, performed throughout the UK.
Advisory Service for Squatters - Information and a helpline for squatters and those interested in squatting.
Traveller Law Research Unit - Research and publication of Traveller-related legal issues; provide referral to UK-wide network of 'Traveller-friendly' legal practitioners and other service providers.
Great Britain-China Centre - Promotes understanding between Britain and China, particularly in the areas of legal and judicial reform, and labour reform. Provides details of membership, events, background information and an online magazine.
Ethical Exchange - A directory made up of organisations which are managed according to ethical principles.
National Appropriate Adult Network - Works to support agencies who provide appropriate adult services which aim to promote and protect the rights and interests of young people and vulnerable adults in police custody.
Merchant Navy Officers - Information about the British Merchant Marine. Includes history, current issues, collections of photographs and personal recollections.
People for Action - National UK network of housing organisations, committed to ideas and actions that put influence and power into the hands of local people.
Standing Council of the Baronetage - Organization maintaining records of baronetages throughout the United Kingdom. Rules, membership information, list of baronetcies to which no succession has been proven.
ACT Association of Consultants and Trainers in the Voluntary Sector - Promoting good practice in management consultancy and training with arts housing and voluntary organizations in the UK.
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) - Information about the organisation, its services and activities promoting accident prevention at work, home, driving, in school, on water and at leisure. Includes downloadable fact sheets.
Action for Market Towns - The national organisation dedicated to promoting the vitality and viability of small towns.
Citizens Advice - National network of Citizens Advice Bureaux. Provides assistance with legal problems, including debt and consumer issues, benefits, housing, legal matters, employment and immigration.
The Work Foundation - Offer research, practical consultancy and constructive advocacy to make workplaces more effective, more successful and more fulfilling.
The Save British Science Society - Pressure group aiming to improve the scientific health of the UK. Includes information on aims, documents, campaigns, and activities.
The Oxford Trust Home Page - Encouraging the study and application of science and technology.
British Fellowship Club - An association of current and past scholars who have studied in Britain with the help of the British Council.
The Abbeyfield Society - UK organization providing sheltered housing in the voluntary sector.
Open Spaces Society - Organisation that works to protect common land and public rights of way. 
Anglia in Bloom - A floral and environmental competition for communities in the East Anglia region, linked to Britain in Bloom
Town Crier of Guildford - Town Crying and Town Criers in the United Kingdom and worldwide.
The Guild of Registered Tourist Guides - The professional association of Tourist Board Registered Blue Badge Guides in Britain.
CSMA - Private home, leisure and motoring organisation for people who have worked for the Civil Service or an organisation with its roots in the Civil Service. Details of membership benefits and other services.
UrbanRegeneration - Information-source for social landlords looking to regenerate run-down housing estates, to halt the spiral of decline and unpopular neighbourhoods and to improve the quality of life for residents.
Royal African Society - Promotes links and good relations with Africa.
The Community Channel - Providing a digital television channel and interactive website for UK-based charities, community groups and voluntary organisations.
Home Start International - Voluntary organisation which promotes the welfare of families with at least one child under school age. Includes organisation background, bulletin board, publications and links to country-specific pages.
Dreamscheme - Community youth development based on young people carrying out community based work projects for which they earn points, which can be exchanged for trips and activities. History, description, training and contact details.
Britain Nigeria Association - For the promotion of friendship between Britain and Nigeria.
Common Purpose - A networking, development and training organisation that works with civil society, business and political leaders. Information on vision, history, case studies and areas of operation.
Institute for Philanthropy - Aims to promote philanthropy via research, debate, publications and by encouraging the UK philanthropic sector. Includes research and study opportunities, areas of activity, newsletter, resources for philanthropic organizations, and contact information.
UK Metric Association - Campaign group for "a single rational system of measurement." Aims and principles, history of UK metrification, metrication mews and links.
UK Meeting Point - A UK resource for people not tied to their computer. You can find places to visit and people to meet. This asset is constantly being added to by both the authors and the visitors
On the Line - United Kingdom Virtual Journey - Aimed at children and young people, provides a guide to the culture, history and daily life of the UK. Includes facts, figures and quotations.
The British Club Worldwide - News, humour and features for homesick British expatriates. Links, newsletters and membership information.
Cuba Solidarity Campaign, Great Britain - Supporting Cuba - The British campaign to support the Cuban people's right to self-determination.
Pro Venezuela Organization - Non-governmental UK organization promoting solutions for the social, educational, financial, political crisis of Venezuela. Information about human rights violations provided.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Organisations Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Organisations "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Organisations "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Organisations Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Organisations If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Organisations What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Organisations Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Organisations "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Organisations Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Organisations The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words Organisations To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Organisations "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Organisations There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Organisations "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Organisations Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Organisations We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Organisations People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Organisations "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker Organisations A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Organisations Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Organisations There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Organisations
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