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Unleashing the potential of community business

In the week of our first birthday, here are some reflections on what we have ...

Communities

Managing land for the common good: What works?

Social enterprises all across the UK are successfully managing land to deliver social, economic and ...

Economic Development Good Local Economics

The state doesn’t have the answer to Welsh economic woes

I wanted to change the emphasis on the state believing it was the answer to ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government

What are the qualities of ‘tomorrow’s people’?

Rogers also spells out what he saw as the ideal qualities of what he called ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Making sense of the business rates conundrum

George Osborne’s plans for business rates devolution have so far thrown up more questions than ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Tackling local poverty needs national system change

Local systems change is vitally important to tackling poverty. However, without a supportive national system ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Taking ownership of apprenticeships

Sir Michael Wilshaw’s most recent broadside was aimed not at schools, but the apprenticeship sector. ...

Communities Economic Development Housing Local Government Regeneration

Back to the future?

Now that the state has decided not to provide homes at subsidised rent and to ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Housing Local Government Regeneration

SURVEY: Can councils and residents work together to achieve lasting change in communities?

New Start is partnering with Local Trust to explore how residents and local authorities can ...

Communities Good Local Economics Local Government

A persuasive vision of a future economy

It was a persuasive vision of a future economy – more connected, democratic, using peer ...