Local Democracy Week is all about empowering citizens to shape the places where they live, work, and learn. Across Kirklees, we’re celebrating the people who make a difference every day and inviting everyone to get involved in local decision-making.
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Kirklees Council are the winners of a national award from Locality for our innovative community engagement and working alongside our partners. We’ve been awarded the ‘Keep it Local’ Award at the national Locality Awards 2021. The award, which the Democracy team are dedicating to our inspiring community organisations in local places across Kirklees, is in recognition of how the council
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Thousands of never-before-seen archives that tell the story of the development of places across the entire Kirklees area during the 19th and 20th centuries will become accessible to the public for the first time, following an award by The National Archives.
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People make our places great. We’re supporting citizens and community organisations across Kirklees to get great ideas off the ground through crowdfunding. You can help to support one of the projects, or share an idea of your own.
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Everyone has their own experience of a place. How do you feel about Huddersfield town centre now, and what are your hopes for the future?
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