10 Ideas to help your area flourish from within
Mainstreaming Community Economic Development is about encouraging economic development to develop from within. About understanding and building upon an area’s...
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Inclusive Economy Case Study 11 – Cash Smart Credit Savvy
We’re highlighting some of the inspiring Civil Society case studies gathered for our ‘Connecting Cranes with Communities, How can the...
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Inclusive Economy Case Study 41 – The Lucas Plan
We’re highlighting some of the inspiring Civil Society case studies gathered for our ‘Connecting Cranes with Communities, How can the...
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Civil Society consultation on WMCA Inclusive Growth plans
In 2018 to early 2019, we consulted Civil Society about its role in Inclusive Growth in the West Midlands. Although...
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Could a sports organisation be our next anchor institution?
Anchor institutions are a core part of some community wealth building models. We've previously blogged about how, by considering their...
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Where next for the High Street?
With recent news that retail jobs have fallen in every UK region outside of London and that Amazon is trialling...
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Inclusive Economy Case Study 38 – Talk English
We’re highlighting some of the inspiring Civil Society case studies gathered for our ‘Connecting Cranes with Communities, How can the...
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Spatial Inequalities
Everyone having more doesn't make us more equal. This week LWM took part in a focus group with the 2070...
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Could a Green New Deal work in the UK?
Climate change is now a global emergency and we are running out of time in the battle to protect the...
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Lets get over Uber
As Uber lists on the stock exchange today with an estimated value of $100billion, perhaps it’s time we looked beyond...
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News from the International Alliance for Localization: the localization of our food systems
Here at Localise West Midlands, we are excited that Local Futures are encouraging individuals to set up inspirational 'viewing' nights...
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Working with Neighbourhoods
Birmingham city council published a white paper Working with Neighbourhoods in January 2019. The paper recognises that there isn't a single fit...
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Junk fashion on steroids
So Birmingham was out in force this morning to celebrate the opening of ‘the world’s largest Primark’ store, ignoring Birmingham’s...
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Welcome to LWM
Hello! I'm Mel, the new joint Project Coordinator at Localise West Midlands. I joined at the end of February and...
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Best approaches to peer learning
Localise West Midlands are currently carrying out a feasibility study, which is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, which...
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‘Project Hope’: rebuild local economies
David Fleming drew on the wisdom of Elinor Ostrom, who published ‘Governing the Commons’ in 1990. An article in the Economist...
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