Below are links to LWM activities and publications from 2002- 2012. For our more recent work, please see our publications page or our current activities.
Birmingham Procurement 2009-9 – the Sustainable Procurement Compact and other BeBirmingham Sustainable Procurement
Fair Deal Awards: a positive awareness raising campaign for “UK fair trade”, highlighting good practice in paying suppliers a fair price. An old campaign but sadly still relevant today.
Supporting the European Food Declaration
Progressing a Better Economy -LWM’s 10th anniversary speaker event 18th Oct
Impact of a new retail development on Shirley, West Midlands, 2006
Sustainability and Resilience for Herefordshire – planning workshops 2011
Community Land Trust training – and Digbeth CLT – 2011
Level 4 Courses on Local Food and Engaging Communities in Climate Change for Aston University’s Lifelong Learning Centre
Course on Growing Low Carbon Communities
Extending Localisation – a research project into regional good practice
Making Government work for local Communities – a paper on decentralisation by Jon Morris & George Morran (2007) and its summary: Political and administrative decentralisation (2007)
Decentralised Energy for Birmingham 2007
Local finance for social housing 2004
Localism & local economic development
Local Enterprise Partnerships – guiding principles for supporting local economic renewal (2011)
Extending Localisation – 2010
Introduction to Extending Localisation
Extending Localisation – Food
Extending Localisation – Retail
Retail
New Heart of Shirley? An independent retail and community impact assessment
BeBirmingham sustainable procurement projects:
Sustainable procurement compact 2008
Full report: Developing Sustainable Procurement in Birmingham 2007
Summary: Making Procurement Work for a Sustainable Birmingham 2007
Newsletters
Annual Reports
LWM annual report April 2012 -March 2013
LWM annual report April 2011 – March 12
LWM annual report April 2010 to March 2011
LWM annual report: April 2009 – March 2010
LWM annual report: April 2008 – March 2009