Good Local Economics

How to… create resilient local communities

Resilient communities have resilient, co-produced institutions at their heart, argues Julian Dobson.

‘Bouncebackability’ is a favourite term of the former Northern Ireland footballer Iain Dowie. Given that one of his main claims to fame is the headed own-goal that put West Ham out of the League Cup on a miserable night in Stockport in 1996, he probably knows what he’s talking about.

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Leeds Empties: A template for tackling complex social problems

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Why bother with innovation?

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How cities can reduce poverty through local growth

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Nurturing strong communities, the ABCD way

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Abolishing the social fund: when ‘local’ simply means ‘less’

Communities Good Local Economics

How to…provide a people-centred alternative to the social fund

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Heseltine slows drift in economic development

Communities Finance Good Local Economics Regeneration

A new framework for local involvement

In their new book, Rethinking Community Practice, Gabriel Chanan and Colin Miller set out a powerful new approach to bringing people and public services together.

We believe there can be major improvements to people’s lives, even under conditions of austerity, through a new framework to link up and boost the wide but fragmented community involvement legacy of the past twenty years.