The sun's out (for now)🌞

Why not enjoy our May newsletter al fresco🏞️?

Featuring:
👨‍🏭 Good Work conference w/Katy Jones Decent Work and Productivity at Manchester Met Uni & Alison McGovern MP
🚀Launch of our new policy paper
🚨Visit from Deputy Mayor Kate Green

And much more👇
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This is a great piece by Sarah Longlands on the vital role that our anchor institutions - including elected mayors, councils and NHS - can & should play in ensuring economic growth benefits *all* communities and reduces poverty/levels of inequality, as it too often does not 👇

Some inspiring examples in here of how to move the economy towards fairer, more inclusive outcomes (including some great highlights from our beloved Islington, which is a leader in Community Wealth Building!)

🏘️ Tackling hardship in neighbourhoods requires state capacity to give immediate financial relief in crisis.

🤝 But greater impact can be made if central govt approaches it as a shared challenge with neighbourhoods, says Katie Schmuecker.

Read more: jrf.org.uk/neighbourhoods….

Voters are x2 as likely to trust local politicians to improve their area. How can CAsmake good on that trust?

Tom Lloyd Goodwin discusses a new joint paper reflecting on a year's work, alongside @nef, Co-operatives UK and Centre for Thriving Places.

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Voters are twice as likely to trust local politicians to improve their areas than national politicians.

This is according to new polling and report by Reclaiming Our Regional Economies (RORE), a programme developed by NEF, (CLES) Centre for Local Economic Strategies, Co-operatives UK and
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Really great to be collaborating with our friends Co-operatives UK NEF Centre for Thriving Places on how we can build economic innovation alongside accountability within metro mayor authorities.

Take a look at our new report 👀

A must read for anyone interested in the delivery of social value and looking forward to our launch with Manchester City Council this afternoon

Great work by David Burch Helen Power 👏

Great to launch the report (CLES) Centre for Local Economic Strategies has written with Cwmpas for ColegauCymru | CollegesWales on Social Value in Welsh Further Education. Chaired by John Griffiths MS MS and response by Welsh Government Education Secretry Lynne Neagle - read the report here👉 buff.ly/4d3xM1f

'The choices we make about how our economy operates systematically generate inequality and poverty'

Sarah Longlands writes for Joseph Rowntree Foundation blog on the multiple councils, metro mayors and NHS bodies pointing the way to a new economics for the whole country.

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A very salient piece given today’s headlines and makes the point that there are workable alternatives at the local level which do mean placing vulnerable people in desperate situations.

Deportation.What a legacy…🙄

UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

'We need a wholesale change in our economic model, rewiring it so that it generates good lives instead of growth for the few and inequality for many' Sarah Longlands

Fine words from our friends and colleagues at The King's Fund. Agreed, let’s give ICSs a proper go and let’s work with them and Combined Authorities to tackle health inequalities and address the wider determinants.

Great to see our Ellie Radcliffe sharing her thoughts on why we need to socialise the ownership of energy at last month's RWE & Co enteignen People's Summit in Vienna.

Looking forward to this!

Last 24 hours to apply for our latest IPPR North North East role! If in doubt, please apply. It's such a great time to be working on the regional agenda in the North East.

It was an absolute pleasure to meet & speak to RECLAIM about community wealth building and hear about their invaluable work empowering working class young people to drive political, economic and social change 🫡

Go check them out! ✊ reclaim.org.uk

Great day in Cardiff talking about the foundational economy and community wealth building- very energising - Diolch !