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[email protected] Carnegie UK Trust Head office Andrew Carnegie House Pittencrieff Street Dunfermline This report is one in a set of three Fife, KY12 8AW Futures for civil society (summary) London office The shape of civil society to come 2nd Floor, Downstream Building Scenarios for civil society 1 London Bridge www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk London, SE1 9BG Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland References 19 Henley Centre HeadlightVision, “Beyond Boundaries”, report for the Orange Future Enterprise Coalition, 2007. Downloadable from http://www.business.orange.co.uk/ servlet/Satellite?pagename=Business&c=OUKPage&cid=1144404026002 20 OECD Employment Outlook 2007, http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/29/26/38749245.pdf [accessed 1 August 2007] 21 To use the social capital jargon – diversity might mean that like ‘bond’ with like but to develop effective social capital these individuals and groups also need to ‘bridge’ or connect to other groups (multi-faith forums) and ‘link’ to power (state and market). 22 Peter Steiner, The New Yorker, 5 July, 1993 (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20) 23 In the pre-internet era Jonathan Raban explored this idea in his influential book Soft City (1974).