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Forever Manchester: Community building in Moston

Focusing on ‘what’s strong, not what’s wrong’, asset based community development is helping local areas shake off their ‘deprived’ status and build themselves from the bottom up.

The Miners Community Arts Centre has been proving the power of asset based community development before the term was even heard of in the area.

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The Kindling Trust: Creating a virtuous food economy

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Election result delivers little cheer for progressive place making

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Coalitions and collaborations. How exciting are they?

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Raising the volume on poverty and inequality in cities

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Devolution and decentralisation have to be fair, equitable and offer hope

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Manifestos are short on ideas for local growth

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Places have relationships

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The Futurebuilders story must be told if we’re to open the door to new social investors

When I was interviewed to be chief executive of the Social Investment Business (SIB) in the summer of 2011 I was asked whether I had any questions. One was top of my list. Was the financial performance of Futurebuilders really as strong as SIB professed it to be? As I kept probing, the panel became a little irritated with my persistence. ‘Why do you keep asking about this?’ one panel member asked. ‘Because I don’t believe it,’ I replied, ‘and neither does the wider market.’

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With full disclosure banking could be a race to the top

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Placemaking must be framed by fairness and equity

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Risky business: how cutbacks are leading local authorities into ‘exotic’ waters

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Local authorities and housing associations must work together in tough times

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Analysis: From ‘civic’ to ‘civil’ society

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Sandwell: A new hospital at the heart of local economic change

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Black Country Make: Building a digital factory on a 1960s estate