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Janette Kirton-Darling Memorial Awards

In March, we announced the Janette Kirton-Darling Memorial Prize, to celebrate the initiative of organisations who have developed local community initiatives as effective means to #ShiftThePower to people whose voices are rarely... Read More

Staffordshire University hold first Action on Poverty Conference

The Staffordshire University Action on Poverty and Hardship team, CHAD research centre and Connected Communities team are holding their first Action on Poverty Conference on Monday 20th June 2022 9am to 5pm. This conference aims to... Read More

The impact of Basic Income Month

Compass and the Basic Income Conversation have published their report Basic Income Month: The impact of London Solidarity Funds and the case for local basic income schemes. The Basic... Read More

Janette Kirton-Darling Memorial Prize

The Prize The Janette Kirton-Darling Memorial Prize will be awarded to an organisation that has demonstrated outstanding leadership, creativity and impact in developing a local community initiative developing effective... Read More

Delivering universal basic services in Scotland

IPPR Scotland last week published their report Universal basic services: Building financial security in Scotland. Over a series of publications, IPPR Scotland has argued that in order to tackle... Read More

Reports on wellbeing in Northern Ireland

Carnegie UK and the CO3 have published their report Rethinking Northern Ireland: Reports from a seminar series on wellbeing in Northern Ireland, based on seven workshops that took place... Read More

Realising a community-powered transition to net zero

IPPR North and partners Scottish Power this week launched their new report on Net zero places and developing a community-led response to the climate crisis. The report argues that... Read More

Democratising Innovation Policy: a report from Nesta & Citizens UK

In December, Nesta and Citizens UK published their new report, Democratising Innovation Policy: How community organising can help build a more inclusive economy. It states that innovation policy has... Read More

A shorter working week: A Future Fit for Wales?

The Future Generations Commissioner for Wales and think-tank Autonomy this month published their new report, A Future Fit For Wales: The roadmap to a shorter working week. It characterises... Read More

Democratic wellbeing: a new report from Carnegie UK

Carnegie UK published their report GDWe: A spotlight on democratic wellbeing last month. Gross Domestic Wellbeing (GDWe) is an alternative measure of social progress to the dominant measure GDP, as set... Read More

Gross Domestic Wellbeing: a more relevant measure than GDP?

Carnegie UK Trust last December published their report Gross Domestic Wellbeing (GDWe)™ An alternative measure of social progress, which proposes GDWe as ‘a more holistic and relevant’ measure of... Read More

We are proud to be a Good Help organisation

Rethinking Poverty are proud to be featured on Good Help’s newly launched website. The organisation define ‘Good Help’ as a method of support that helps ‘people to feel hopeful,... Read More

#BuildBackBetter coalition launched

The #BuildBackBetter coalition, which consists of 350 organisations from business, trade unions and civil society, was launched on 29 June. On its website it is described as ‘a platform for... Read More

Now is the time to talk about a good society, argues Compass paper

Compass last week published a paper Towards a Good Society, written by Ruth Lister, Labour peer and the outgoing chair of the Compass board. Cries of ‘we cannot go... Read More

CLES counter the ‘dangerous’ community paradigm

The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) have published a new policy provocation, An economy for all: the role of community power, which questions the calls ‘for communities to... Read More

CPAG explore the growing depth of child poverty

The Child Poverty Action Group have published a new report, DRAGGED DEEPER: How families are falling further and further below the poverty line, which examines not only ‘the rate... Read More

NEF reviews 2019 and their missions to transform our failing economy

The New Economics Foundation have published their Review of the Year, which looks at all their activity in 2019, with a particular focus on their ‘three missions to transform... Read More

Carnegie UK and The Wheel explore enabling Participating People

Carnegie UK and The Wheel have published Participating People, the final report of their series The People’s Conversation, which ‘presents a blueprint of actions to support a more inclusive... Read More

NEF on how to rebuild trust for transition

The New Economics Foundation has published its report Trust in Transition, which argues that the ‘rebuilding of trust in transition to a zero-carbon economy is perhaps the central political... Read More

How we can create better futures, by the people, for the people

Nesta have released a new report, Our Futures: By the people, for the people, which describes itself as ‘a guide to how mass involvement with shaping the future can... Read More

CLES manifesto sets out how the next government can truly serve people, places and planet

The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) has launched ‘The manifesto for local economies’, setting out a vision for ‘how the next government should create local economies that serve... Read More

NEF proposes three missions to transform our failing economy

The New Economics Foundation (NEF) has published a new report, New Rules for the Economy, which propose ‘three missions to transform our failing economy’. The report depicts the UK... Read More

Rethinking Poverty and The Orwell Youth Prize 2020 – The Future We Want

‘To take a rational political decision one must have a picture of the future’ (George Orwell, 1944) The Orwell Youth Prize, supported by Rethinking Poverty, has launched its 2020... Read More

Put people at the heart of the green transition, argue IPPR and WWF

The IPPR and WWF have published a collection of essays, Putting people at the heart of the green transition, which sets out what ‘a Green New Deal (GND) could... Read More

The New Economic Zine: we need to change the rules

The New Economics Foundation has released the first issue of its new publication, the New Economic Zine. The debut issue seeks ‘to showcase new ideas and platform voices outside... Read More

How can public policy support an ‘infrastructure of kindness’ in Scotland?

A new report from Carnegie UK, Public policy and the infrastructure of kindness in Scotland, explores the decision to put kindness at the centre of the Scottish National Performance... Read More

How community businesses can help build an inclusive economy

A new report from the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and Power to Change, Building an inclusive economy through community business, ‘explores how community businesses can support the... Read More

Failure to fully understand structural inequalities holding us back

University College London and the Resolution Foundation have published a new report, Structurally Unsound, which explores the structural inequalities faced by different groups in the UK and seeks to... Read More

Rewilding a key pillar in our fight against global heating

Green New Deal for Nature, by Simon Lewis, of University College London and University of Leeds, forms part of Common Wealth’s Green New Deal (GND) series. The report advocates... Read More

Younger generations to bear burden of climate breakdown

The Institute for Public Policy Research has published Inheriting the Earth? The unprecedented challenge of environmental breakdown for younger generations, the second discussion paper in a series that ‘seeks... Read More

Workers must be the ones to design a just transition

A new report from Ellie Mae O’Hagan outlines the role of trade unions in a Green New Deal. It is part of Common Wealth’s Green New Deal (GND) report... Read More

Shifting ownership to avoid climate catastrophe

Johanna Bozuwa and Carla Skandier of Democracy Collaborative have contributed to Common Wealth’s series on the Green New Deal with their piece, Shifting Ownership for the Energy Transition in... Read More

How Community Wealth Building can help the Green New Deal

Last month we announced the launch of Common Wealth’s Green New Deal project, a series of reports that will aim to serve as a ‘comprehensive road map for a... Read More

Report advocates shorter working hours for improved well-being

A new report, How to achieve shorter working hours, commissioned by the Labour Party and written by Lord Skidelsky, was published last week. It argues that ‘a reduction in... Read More

CLES on climate emergency: ‘the time for action is now’

The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) have published ‘CLES on… climate emergency’, the third piece in their new series of provocations. It argues that while movements such as... Read More

Living Hand to Mouth gives a voice to children experiencing food poverty

A new book, Living Hand to Mouth, ‘details the lives of children whose parents can’t afford to put regular meals on the table’. Using the first-hand accounts of 51... Read More

We need to transform our institutions to deliver a Green New Deal

Common Wealth have published another report in their Green New Deal series, this time looking at political movements and institutions. Written by Miatta Fahnbulleh of the New Economics Foundation,... Read More

CLES on a new paradigm for regeneration

The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) have published the second provocation in their new series, ‘CLES on… regeneration’, arguing regeneration needs recalibration ‘in order to root the development... Read More

Publicly owned energy for a Green New Deal

Common Wealth have recently published the report Why We Need Publicly Owned Energy for a Green New Deal. Written by Cat Hobbs, founder and director of We Own It,... Read More

CLES on achieving genuine progressive devolution

The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) have launched a new series of provocations, ‘CLES on…’, drawing on their thirty years’ experience of ‘working to develop stronger local economics... Read More

Children’s well-being lowest in eight years, report finds

The Children’s Society annual report, The Good Childhood Report, published this week, has found a significant decrease in children’s overall happiness. The report, now in its eighth year, is part... Read More

JRF on becoming a ‘social change organisation’

Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) last week published a blog titled ‘Creating a social change organisation from a leading foundation’ sharing their ‘story so far’ of the ‘process of organisational... Read More

How CLES and Preston City Council ‘built community wealth in Preston’

A new publication from the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) ‘tells the story of community wealth building (CWB) in Preston’, reflecting on eight years of collaboration. CLES set... Read More

Common Wealth launch a road map for Green New Deal

The think-tank Common Wealth this week launched their Green New Deal project, a series of reports to be published over the coming months that will serve as a ‘comprehensive... Read More

Report sets out how to deliver inclusive growth for Scotland

A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) sets out how productivity could deliver inclusive growth for Scotland. In 2015, the Scottish government launched a new... Read More

New think-tank dedicated to democratising ownership in face of climate crisis

A new think-tank, Common Wealth, ‘dedicated to democratising ownership’, seeks to ‘rapidly and justly transform our economy in the face of climate breakdown’. The organisation sets out its ‘simple... Read More

New book explores wellbeing in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Wellbeing and Devolution: Reframing the Role of Governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, by Jennifer Wallace, Head of Policy at Carnegie UK, looks at ‘why each of the... Read More

CPAG calls for changes to Universal Credit to reduce child poverty

A new report, Universal credit: what needs to change to reduce child poverty and make it fit for families?, from Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), calls for changes to... Read More

‘Time to Build an Inclusive Local Economy’ in Northern Ireland

A new charter, Time to Build an Inclusive Local Economy ‘sets out key steps to harness the power of communities to create resilient local economies’. Developed by Development Trusts... Read More

Land for the Many report seeks to change the way UK land is used

This week saw the publication of a new independent report, Land for the Many: Changing the way our fundamental asset is used. Written by George Monbiot and six others... Read More

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