A Bull Ring stall, Community Supported Agriculture and a Co-op market
Carol Byrne sells local and organic vegetables that are moderately priced and bought by general customers at her L.O.V.E stall...
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Federation of Small Businesses urges food producers to find local buyers
Richard Haddock, rural spokesman for the Federation of Small Businesses [FSB], has urged farmers to switch to local buyers wherever...
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Council invites local producers to exhibit and sell
A number of Localise West Midlands’ contacts and small businesses have been advocating the reopening of the former Woolworth’s building in Shirley...
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What has PricewaterhouseCoopers in common with Localise West Midlands this month?
A Birmingham Press article reports that PricewaterhouseCoopers [financial services] now commends a trend towards regional procurement - ‘value-sourcing’ - using...
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Local production and local procurement: the key to food security in India and Britain
A New Delhi contact, Devinder Sharma, an agricultural scientist who moved to journalism and then to research related to food...
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The first Stirchley Community Market
Stirchley Community Market will be launched by Loaf, Stirchley Happenings, South Birmingham Food Co-op and Birmingham Town Centre Partnerships on...
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A trend set in – Alternative inflation report for June
It looks like a trend has now firmly set in for us to be the inflationary economy which besides undermining...
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The Green Economy and Local Job Creation
On July 12th our latest speaker meeting sparked a lively discussion on green jobs in the West Midlands- Where will...
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Localism and localisation – a potentially symbiotic relationship?
The June Co-operative Congress, organised by the Co-operative College and Co-operatives UK, backed the concept of co-operative localism. Wooldale Co-op...
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Alternative inflation report – Living standards in the West Midlands
None of our current inflation indices register the unique house price inflation the UK has had. Had they done so...
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Manufacturing
A correspondent in the Stirrer asks if the coalition government cares about manufacturing: “. . . it must be obvious...
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Is there a job in the Green Economy for you? LWM's latest speaker event
Birmingham Green New Deal and beyond: How the green economy can kick-start Birmingham out of recession and create a sustainable...
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Interest in Birmingham’s Green New Deal
Evo Energy and Professional Polishing Services recently asked for information about this development. These are the sort of businesses which...
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Lessons from the Thatcher/Reagan years – an Alternative inflation report
The new government have inherited the highest inflation rate in the G7. And as they consider any sort of increase...
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Own Goal: Lessons for the West Midlands in the Globalisation of Football Finance
Localise West Midland's latest report: Own Goal: the Globalisation of Football Finance, has officially been launched to the press today!...
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Why do local economies matter?
Anna White of Share the World’s Resources explains, referring to the work of Localise West Midland’s co-founder, Colin Hines. Some...
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Setting up locally owned and run pubs and shops
Co-operative and Community Finance has pledged to provide up to £2m of new loans to help 50 communities set up...
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Buy locally grown fruit and vegetables
Earlier in May, though the Co-op store in Evesham and Pershore was stocking asparagus grown in the Vale, local people...
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Finditinbirmingham.com: re-launching the local economy?
Three days ago as I entered a rather impressive marquee I was greeted by hundreds of councillors, businessmen and influential...
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How the banks need to be split up – and how not
The Liberal-Conservative coalition agreement involves the setting up of a cabinet committee on Banking which will be chaired by George...
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