12th May 2008: The East of England Plan, the Revision to the Regional Spatial Strategy for the East of England, has been published today (12 May 2008).   Government Offices work with regional partners to develop, implement and monitor ‘Regional Spatial Strategies,’ which set out Government’s planning and transport policy for each region for a 15-20 year period. The strategies provide frameworks for determining planning applications, as well as for preparing both Local Development Documents and Local Transport Plans.

9th May 2008: Businesslink East, the East of England enterprise support organisation have revealed details of their voucher scheme for co-operatives and social enterprises.  We have full details of the scheme on our new vouchers page.

25th February 2008: It is the start of Fairtrade Fortnight and all across the country there will be events to help publicise the Fairtrade message.  In Harlow we have an exhibition of Fairtrade celebrity photographs in a special showing at the Gibberd Galley, Civic Centre, the Water Gardens, Harlow, Essex CM20 1WG.  On Tuesday 26th February the Playhouse is putting on 3 screenings of the film "Black Gold".  See the Playhouse website for full details.

12th September 2007: The Harlow CDA can now announce a new service for the people of Harlow and the surrounding districts.  This new approach helps those in need of a service to be much more easily put in contact with those able to supply that service (and locally!).  The suppliers will be mainly working in the social need and not for profit sector, with a number of consultants and trainers that can help with small business launches and growth.  Many courses and seminars will be at low cost, or for free.  Please check out the website http://harlowportal.coop for full details.

	Harlow CDA is generously supported by a grant from Harlow District Council and the Co-operative fund