The Dacorum Directory
INDEX
1) COUNCILS, GOVERNMENTS AND AGENCIES
2) LOCAL MEDIA
6) FOR CHILDREN
7) ANIMALS
COUNCILS, GOVERNMENTS AND AGENCIES
Code of Practice on Access to Government Information Government Departments have to give a substantial answer (not just an acknowledgement) within twenty working days of receiving your enquiry.
European Parliament (London Office)
Hertfordshire Police Authority No website e-mail: sally.patient@hertscc.gov.uk Hertfordshire Police Authority is an independent body responsible for the police budget; targets and objectives, and appoints the Chief Constable. Its members are county councillors, magistrates and selected lay people.
OECD The Organisation for Economic Control and Development, the group of 29 richest nations. The report on road deaths is worth reading.
ombudsmanwatch exposing the cosy link between the Local Government Ombudsman and local councils
Rotten Borough The antidote to local authority web sites, by Ian Johnston, former councillor, Berkhamsted.
Rottencouncil "It is every citizen's duty to challenge the torment and distress so often caused by local authorities such as North East Lincolnshire Council. Quite often, maladministration, abuse of power and injustice within these authorities are simply left uncontested."
http://www.newspapersoc.org.uk/website/ all the contacts for local papers in the UK
Hemel Gazette http://www.hemelhempsteadtoday.co.uk (also known as hemelonline.co.uk)
Herald Express see Hemel Gazette
Watford Observer http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/
St Albans Observer http://www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk
Bucks Herald http://www.bucksherald.co.uk
The Independent Herts & Essex Newspapers http://www.herts-essex-news.co.uk
Luton News and Dunstable Gazette http://www.bedfordshireonline.co.uk
Hemelweb http://www.hemelweb.demon.co.uk A Hemel website with local information and links.
Hemel Online www.hemelonline.com A local community site for Hemel Hempstead, not to be confused with the local paper who have a similar name.
The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/
The Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk
The Guardian (and The Observer) http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The Financial Times http://www.ft.com
The Times http://www.the-times.co.uk
The Evening Standard http://www.standard.co.uk
Channel 4 http://www.channel4.com
Anglia Television http://www.angliatv.co.uk
Carlton Television http://www.carltontv.co.uk
CASH - Campaign Against Silly Homes
Carbusters international anti-car/car-free movement
Civic Trust Campaigning for better urban conditons
Crystal Palace Campaign A popular campaign against a plan to redevelop the historic site where the original Crystal Palace used to stand.
Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties (UK) a non profit civil liberties organisation
Dacorum Fairtrade Town Action Group campaigning for Hemel Hempstead to achieve FairTrade Town status
Dacorum Energy Savers Save energy, save money and fight global warming all at the same time!
Earth First Direct action for the environment
The Electrohippies' Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD) Website
European Car Free Day 22nd September
Friends of Fields End Against building 550 homes on the Green Belt in Warners End. Gillian Edwards 01442 214948
Friends of Shrub Hill Common Hemel Hempstead's local nature reserve. Roger Prue 01442 254119 e-mail: RPRUE@UK.MDIS.COM
The Georgian Group 0171 377 1722
Green events a pre-eminent activist magazine with a special focus on London and the South East of England but with a global perspective.
Hertfordshire Building Preservation Trust
The Hertfordshire Society County branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England 01438 717587
The National Campaign for Firework Safety 118 Long Acre Covent Garden WC2E 9PA 0171 836 6703 Fireworks cause many unnecessary injuries each year to people and pets. Excessive noise from fireworks causes suffering to both pet animals and wild animals as well as to many people who are elderly or have nervous conditions.
Pedestrians Association 31, Bondway, London SW8 1SJ 0171 820 1010 Local contact for Hemel Hempstead: Derek Podesta 01442 254996
Political Science Resources More Links
Real Nappy Association PO Box 3704 London SE26 4RX Alternatives to disposables
Reclaim the Streets "We are being forced into exchanging a natural, open, green environment for "the consumer experience", an isolating, impersonal, passive and non-participating pastime."
Roadpeace Campaigning against road accidents
Salvo magazine Reclamation and salvage
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Spunk Press Alternative and anarchist
Sustrans Sustainable transport, especially cycling, and cycling to schools.
The Victorian Society 1 Pryory Gardens, Bedford Park, London W4 1TT 0181 994 1019
'Think Globally - Act Locally' North East Direct Action
The Twentieth Century Society protects the best buildings of the century 0171 250 3857
urban75 Britain's leading online counterculture magazine
Alliance for biointegrity USA - Steven Druker was an impressive speaker at Hemel Hempstead's GM debate on 28th February 2000.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
The British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine
The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods US group
Cropchoice news that big companies may not want farmers to hear
DEFRA formerly the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Foodfuture. Food Manufacturers. (NB food is now manufactured, not grown)
Genetix Snowball At the forefront of direct action campaigning against GE in the UK.
Genetically Engineered Food Alert A coalition of organizations united in their commitment to testing and labeling genetically engineered food in the US.
GM free Britain campaign FoE have set up this excellent web site with a pile of useful resource material
Green Alliance "One of the UK's foremost environmental policy organisations, working closely, at senior level, with government, parliament, businesses and other environmental organisations."
Greenpeace True Food Greenpeace has launched a new True Food Web site designed to help people get involved in the issue of genetically modified food. Read the latest news about Greenpeace and GMOs, take online action for True Food, send a FrankenTony postcard to a friend, download a True Food Action Kit and more.
Heart and Soil Campaigning
for real food - super site by Graham Skeggs, inspired especially by Schumacher
and the Distributists
Institute of Science in Society
A group of more than 300 scientists from 39 countries who are calling
for a moratorium on environmental releases of GMOs and support for organic,
sustainable agriculture.
The Millenium Debate and the GMO Campaign
http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/news Monsanto Stuff
Norfolk Genetic Information Network
Organic Trade Services "Up to the hour GM news stories from papers and websites around the world"
Rothamsted Institute for Crop and Arable Research
ToxicAlert 50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods
Chilterns Dog Rescue Society While the rescue centre is just inside the Bucks border in Ashley Green it also serves the Dacorum area for rescuing and rehoming dogs. This is a registered charity that has been in existence since 1963 and in that time has rehomed over 13,000 dogs.
Bittern Builders a Berkhamsted based general builder
Cook's Delight Berkhamsted's Organic Food Shop
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