How to build a good local economy

There are some very good projects and good ideas out there promoting 'local economies': 
Futures Forum: Open Source Ecology >>> Homebrew Industrial Revolution >>> Do-it-yourself sustainable development
Futures Forum: "Small plus small plus small equals big" >>> 'There is a blind spot about economic regeneration in most local authorities'
Futures Forum: Of devolution, local assets and investing locally
Futures Forum: REconomy... and community-led economic development
Futures Forum: The Forest Economy: woodland as New Economy metaphor
Futures Forum: Supporting sustainable local food production in Branscombe >>> planning applications
Futures Forum: "Doing it Ourselves" >>> Forum for a New Local Economy >>>
Futures Forum: The Bioregional Economy

And these are happening right now: for example:
Futures Forum: A Bank of the South West > to serve the everyday financial needs of ordinary people, local community groups, and small and medium sized companies >> Tony Greenham in Exeter: Thursday 26th October

A new initiative has been set up to help such projects and ideas develop:

NEW WEBSITE HELPS COMMUNITIES BUILD ‘GOOD’ LOCAL ECONOMIES

ONLINE TOOLKIT SHOWS HOW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CAN BE DRIVEN BY COMMUNITIES RATHER THAN IMPOSED FROM ABOVE.

16 OCTOBER, 2017

A new website will help councils and community organisations to build ‘good’ local economies.

Launched by the Centre for Local Economic Strategies and the New Economics Foundation, with funding from the Friends Provident Foundation, it brings together case studies from across the UK on housing, finance, energy, procurement and commissioning, and local economics.

Called ‘Building a Good Local Economy’, the website sets out the powers and resources currently available to both local government and local communities to help them improve local housing provision, build up local energy supplies and create a thriving local economy.

Building a Good Local Economy website

Case studies include Homebaked, a bakery in the shadow of Liverpool football club that has become a model of community-led regeneration, and Manchester and Preston Councils’ work using local procurement budgets to build community wealth.

The website is part of the Good Local Economies programme, run by CLES and NEF for the last two years, which this year has worked with five cities – Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol and Leeds – to help them activate and model new approaches to local economic development.

The website aims to become a comprehensive database of projects across the UK that are challenging the dominant approach to local development. If you would like your project to be included, contact Clare Goff.

Visit the Building a Good Local Economy website.

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