Place: North West

Claire Norman from Westmorland and Furness Council discussing their strategy ‘Together we are powered by communities’.

5th February, 2026

Community engagement • Community Power • Participation and co-production • Strategy

Hearing about the Together we are powered by communities strategy at Westmorland and Furness Council

2nd December, 2025

Community engagement • Partnerships • Place

Integrated working across services, delivered within trusted community spaces, is a powerful way to provide better support for residents. Community assets such as libraries and cultural venues are often ideal […]

1st December, 2025

Community Power • Partnerships • Place

Tell us about a typical working day at Westmorland and Furness Council It’s a varied role. The work areas I cover include Community Grants, Community Power, Social Enterprise, the Community […]

12th November, 2025

Claire Notman • Community Power • Westmorland and Furness Council

Building trust and lasting relationships between councils and communities across a place starts with genuine engagement—bringing staff and local stakeholders together to listen, learn, and co-produce solutions is a vital […]

16th September, 2025

Community engagement • Participation and co-production

Working collaboratively with communities and partners to help create vibrant and thriving places is a focus for many local authorities. Bringing everyone along on the journey and doing this during/following local […]

16th July, 2025

Community Power • Partnerships • Place

Laura Billings tells us how TPXimpact developed community power standards with Manchester City Council.

15th May, 2025

Community Power • Manchester City Council • Strategy and leadership • TPXimpact

This roundtable event will hear the findings from Carnegie’s report and discuss how focusing on collective wellbeing can help to shape better policy decisions. Now in its second year, the […]

17th February, 2025

Democracy • Environment • Inclusive Economy • Strategy and leadership • Wellbeing

New Local worked with partners in Yorkshire and Cumbria to develop a learning programme that puts communities at the heart of health and care.

5th November, 2024

Community Power • Health and social care

New Local worked with the newly formed Westmorland and Furness Council to develop a vision, strategic approach and delivery plan to put communities at the heart of its operating model.

12th August, 2024

Community engagement • Community Power • Local government • Strategy and leadership

Helen Chicot from Rochdale Council introduces a three-year project which has used Good Help principles to tackle the council’s most pressing challenges, transforming the way the way it works and its relationships with residents.

24th November, 2023

Community engagement • Community Power • Health and social care • Local government • Public Services

We worked with Stockport Council and its partners to inform future neighbourhood working arrangements, particularly in relation to local area working among communities, health and social care teams.

20th October, 2023

Community engagement • Community Power • Health and social care • Local government • Strategy and leadership

We worked with Stockport Council, Healthwatch Stockport and the People and Community Voice Sub-Group in Greater Manchester to shape proposals for how people and communities can be put at the core of the new ICS model and Locality Board...

12th September, 2023

Community engagement • Community Power • Health and social care • Integrated Health Systems • Local government • Strategy and leadership

Shuff Tariq and Sarah Cooke explain how Manchester delivered one of the most successful homelessness projects in the UK.

4th April, 2023

Community engagement • Council Voices • Homelessness • Poverty and inequality • Public Services

In the latest of our ‘How We Did It’ event series, Claire Vibert shares her experience of setting up and running a complex and collaborative Poverty Truth Commission in Trafford, Greater Manchester.

20th September, 2022

Community engagement • Community Voices • How to guide • Interview • Poverty and inequality

Why do we keep sending people back to the conditions that have made them ill in the first place? This question is at the core of GP Dr Mark Spencer’s […]

13th May, 2021

Case study • Community Power • Community Voices • Health and social care • Podcast • Public Health

Jaiden, 19, is a trustee at Rekindle School - the South Manchester-based supplementary school where everything - from the curriculum, to safeguarding, to funding, will be youth-led. Before speaking at this year's Stronger Things event, Jaiden reflects on the...

1st March, 2021

Community Power • Education and skills • Stronger Things • Video • Young people

Built in the 1930s, the Grade II-listed Bryne Avenue Baths had fallen into a state of disrepair when the council made plans to knock the building down. That was until […]

10th March, 2020

Community Power • Powerful Communities

Elizabeth Mitchell explains how Manchester City Council is creating a more inclusive city.

11th February, 2020

Economy and business • Inclusive Growth • Place building • Public Sector Voices