Good Local Economics

Community-owned or merely ‘based’ in the community?

Early research findings suggest the cuts are impacting on the sustainability of community-led housing programmes.

Public sector cuts are threatening the resilience of community-led regeneration, according to Rob Rowlands & Mike Beazley

Cast your mind back ten years. Labour ministers were trumpeting the investment in community-based organisations as the way forward for embedded housing-led regeneration.

Communities Good Local Economics Regeneration

Young people are a powerful force for good

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Tackling discrimination must be at the heart of debate on ageing

Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

It’s time to dispel a few myths around outsourcing

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

No quarter given

Communities Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government

Making sense of the white paper’s finer details

Communities Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government

Open door policy

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

A new economics agenda for a new minister for cities

Communities Good Local Economics

Co-producing policy to eradicate poverty

We are all undoubtedly living in challenging times, in which poverty in all its insidious guises is set to increase. The Social Action & Research Foundation (SARF) envision a different society than the one we are currently offered that privileges the market above all else. We want one in which the economy is made to work for society. In order to achieve this, our shared public services must be co-produced alongside communities contributing their essential knowledge to create an effective and accountable welfare state, which promotes active equality at a local level, and in which the voice of those experiencing poverty is truly valued.