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National emergency – local responses – positive changes

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“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about” Margaret J. Wheatley (2002) Turning...

#WM2041 Green green paper on the WM response to Climate Change

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So you’ve declared a Climate Emergency. Now what? Now you need to make a plan, set targets, decide your priorities,...

RESO – Supporting growth in Montreal, from within

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We continue our series of blogs exploring best practice examples of Community Economic Development from around the globe, this time...

How Cambridge is supporting public houses in the local community

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Localising Prosperity is a model for integrating community economic development into everyday business and understanding and building upon an area’s...

Future Models for Community Energy

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I recently attended a workshop on Future Models for Community Energy hosted by Community Energy England and Power To Change....

Community Economic Development in Action – The Cleveland Model

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Gloucestershire Gateway Trust

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Gloucestershire Gateway Trust - a groundbreaking partnership between a retailer and local communities - with implications for the way cooperative...

Community Economic Development in Cape Breton

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Alternative Finance – Could the past inform our future?

Mel –

When people think about the economy, one thing that springs to mind is banks and money. And any attempts to...

Localise the West Midland – NOW!

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With politically motivated disruptions to the globalised trading system increasing the risk of another global crash; Localise West Midlands continues...

Localising Corporate Social Responsibility

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Enfield, North London, has been recovering from de-industrialisation during the 1980s and unemployment, low skills and deprivation remain stubbornly high....

Book review – Saving Capitalism for the Many not the Few

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Bold ideas on housing

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This isn’t a blog about the UK's broken housing system – we all know it does not provide decent and...

USE-IT! Toulouse Field Trip

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As part of the USE-IT! project, a group from Birmingham attended a conference in Toulouse called by URBACT. The group included...

The future of mobility

Mel –

Here at Localise West Midlands we've been having a bit of a deep dive into priority policy areas and thinking...

10 Ideas to help your area flourish from within

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Mainstreaming Community Economic Development is about encouraging economic development to develop from within. About understanding and building upon an area’s...