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Community leaders must offer hope, not gloom

The last few years have been deeply challenging for almost all of the voluntary and community sector (VCS), especially small community-based groups and their local infrastructure bodies.

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Can fintech innovation help indebted families?

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Unleashing the potential of community business

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The state doesn’t have the answer to Welsh economic woes

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How inclusive is the Northern Powerhouse?

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In 2016 the social sector must renew its resolve and its solidarity

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Turner Prize win shines light on community business

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Spending review: The voluntary sector needs to re-boot and re-launch

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Let’s begin the reinvention of city economies

The title of this new report is provocative. The questions of ‘good’ city economies should not only be taken as a measure of whether economic policy can be effective in producing growth. The deeper question to grapple with is, is there a kind of local economics that can be built on values and, in the way it works and what it produces, does good?