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• National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal

  An implementation strategy drawing on the Social Exclusions Unit's Policy Action Team work in 1998. The aim is to add value through local public agencies working actively together across departmental boundaries applying Local Strategic Partnerships.
• New Deal for Communities

  A Central Government initiative that supports the intensive regeneration schemes that deal with problems such as poor educational attainment and poor job prospects in a small number of deprived local authorities

• New Generation Agricultural Co-operatives

  A form of producer co-operatives whose major focus is on "value added" processing rather than limiting themselves to marketing commodities/

• Non profit or not-for-profit

  Terms used to describe companies which may well make a profit, but do not distribute their profits to shareholders, instead using them for social or community benefit or reinvestment in fulfilling their social aims.