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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Community wealth building in Hartlepool
Hartlepool has been hit hard by austerity; in 2017 it was one of ten local authorities with the highest unemployment rate...
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Feasibility Study of mutual learning in community economic development
The West Midlands is bristling with creativity when it comes to community economic development. There is no shortage of people...
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Community Researchers Vacancy
Localise West Midlands (LWM) are looking to recruit a number of individuals who have knowledge of the community economic development...
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The Lake District has a new local currency
Jerome Starkey reported earlier this year that Lake District artists, poets, painters and authors have been chosen as the faces...
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Coordinator Jobshare Vacancy
Can you help us build a better economy? Vacancy: Coordinator (jobshare) Localise West Midlands Salary: £24,757 pro rata Hours:...
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Leaving LWM!
I’ve been in post as coordinator at Localise WM for sixteen years, and have decided the time has come to...
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Cllr Laura Price says: “This is about real localism – us doing things for our community who would otherwise be abandoned.”
A year ago the residents of Hawes were in the news after launching their own Little White Bus in 2011...
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Relocalisation of food production and distribution: the ‘strategic alternative’
In the Friend, 19th October 2018, Clíodhna Mulhern remembers living in a market town in Ireland in the 1950s: “We shopped...
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Economics of Happiness 2018
I was fortunate enough to attend the Economics of Happiness conference 2018, in Bristol on the 19th and 20th of...
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Local Industrial Strategy Consultation
The West Midlands Combined Authority is currently consulting on the Local Industrial Strategy for the West Midlands. This is your...
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Move beyond left/right, Brexit/Remain thinking, and build a movement for economic change
In similar vein to a recent post on this site, Helena Norberg-Hodge writes: Ever since the Brexit referendum was first...
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Birmingham Council’s policy of ‘Local Wealth Building’ through new municipal services and local procurement
. Introducing a fifteen-page paper ‘A REBIRTH OF MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM’ IN BIRMINGHAM? by RICHARD HATCHER Speaking to Labour Councillors in...
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A civil society strategy is announced
An inquiry into civil society, chaired by Julia Unwin, former chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, found that many...
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Los Angeles: a public bank with a mandate to serve the people?
Voters in Los Angeles will be the first in the United States to choose whether to set up their city’s...
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New impetus for community energy
The Financial Times reports that the falling cost of renewables, advances in battery storage and the prospect of selling electricity...
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WMCA’s new Inclusive Growth Unit
We’re really pleased to be part of the WMCA’s new Inclusive Growth Unit https://www.wmca.org.uk/news/linking-cranes-with-communities-wmca-launches-inclusive-growth-unit/. It’s an opportunity to go beyond...
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