Five cities, 55 projects: Mapping ‘good’ local economics in the UK
New Start, CLES and the New Economics Foundation, with funding from the Friends Provident Foundation, are travelling the UK during 2015 and 2016, visiting its eleven core cities to map what a ‘good’ approach to local economics looks like.
Northern Ireland’s economic development is heavily focused on cities and urban industries but much of the country remains rural. The counties of Derry, Antrim and Tyrone have imbibed a culture of self-help and developed local programmes that are sustaining towns and villages, from profit-for-purpose Workspace Group to the Lough Neagh Fisherman’s Cooperative.