Common Ground (www.commonground.org.uk) highlights local initiatives all over the country.

"Is it going to dry up other local and state initiatives?"

The hall had been built by local initiative, each house in the area paying for one brick.

But such local initiatives were also described as a Catch-22.

"I am trying to inspire local initiatives, so people make changes independently from me."

And the whole process is all going to turn on local initiative.

Small local initiatives do - except when they get crushed by big government programs.

It has since been restored by local initiative for cultural purposes.

It is entirely a matter of local initiative and choice.

The budget is $12 million, equally divided between the local and national initiatives.