Sentence examples for council activity from inspiring English sources

Council activity should not be in rarefied big blocks like the town hall.

With a cut of 27% in grant funding over the period to 2014-15, there will need to be a massive re-configuring of council activity.

To do all this, we have to act as social entrepreneurs: the money we receive from the city council is only a start, since it is as subject to cutback or non-growth as the budget of any council activity, and we have to raise funds from central government, arts board and other public sources - notably lottery funding - with a small proportion coming from charities.

He added: "If you dig down into the detail of that poll, you see that six out of 10 of the key areas of council activity, the majority of respondents actually thought we were doing a good job.

This significant trend is also mirrored in a matching reduction in formal Council activity.

Regional blogs and network expert Sarah Hartley came on board as launch editor, and worked on a new role, the beatblogger: someone who would cover a city with particular attention to council activities and citizenship.

That departs from the traditional model, where council activities were largely supported by the proceeds from cookie sales and the headquarters was financed by sales of merchandise like uniforms.

There will still be plenty of that on guardian.co.uk – for example, in our growing army of local cutswatchers, monitoring local council activities – but we felt, in that spirit, that we should share the thinking behind the local experiment with you, the readers who have been involved all along.

More than 100 staff handle 35,000 calls a week from 8am to 10pm and at weekends.They deal with rent and council-tax inquiries and payments, rubbish and pest-control complaints, student grants and loans, tourism information, voters' registration and many other council activities.

Mike Starkie, standing as an independent, said he would run the council as a business, commercialising council activities, and pursuing "a policy of self reliance rather than dependency".

He also was a director on a student council activities group.