Category: Events
How do you effectively communicate innovative approaches to working with your communities? How do you engage groups that have been sidelined or feel disconnected? And how do you craft a compelling story of place that resonates with everyone? In...
6th December, 2024
At this event we will talk through our latest research report, Constructing Consensus: The case for community-powered development and regeneration. Unblocking the planning system is a top national priority, and there is wide support for the Government’s mission to...
22nd November, 2024
Join us for an inspiring, peer-driven session designed to tackle the real challenges and opportunities councils and communities face today. Our Innovation Exchanges offer a unique, interactive session led entirely by the experiences of your fellow council officers and...
11th November, 2024
Join us for an inspiring, peer-driven session designed to tackle the real challenges and opportunities councils and communities face today. Our Innovation Exchanges offer a unique, interactive session led entirely by the experiences of your fellow council officers and...
11th November, 2024
It is vital that public spaces work for the residents and communities that live and work in them. Whether the public spaces are high streets, parks, public service buildings, they all are part of the bigger picture of how...
11th November, 2024
The complexities of transforming health services are vast with many different priorities and variables to consider. Place-based systems leadership can unlock barriers and open doors within services to help deliver change. One of the key factors in ensuring all...
11th November, 2024
Community Power • Health and social care • Integrated Health Systems
Building community cohesion where trust and a sense of belonging are paramount is imperative to help communities and places thrive. We have seen recently what happens without a long-term commitment to maintaining strong relationships, or investment in social fabric...
11th November, 2024
Using outcomes-focused relational working to reduce demand on statutory services can be difficult, but it has the potential to help local authorities effectively deliver preventative interventions.
11th November, 2024
Childrens' Services • Health and social care • Prevention • Public Services
Discover actionable strategies and innovative solutions in this interactive ‘How we did it’ network session, where we’ll delve into a real-world case study from council officers who’ve successfully navigated complex challenges. This session offers a unique opportunity to learn...
11th November, 2024
Discover actionable strategies and innovative solutions in this interactive ‘How we did it’ network session, where we’ll delve into a real-world case study from council officers who’ve successfully navigated complex challenges. This session offers a unique opportunity to learn...
11th November, 2024
Discover actionable strategies and innovative solutions in this interactive ‘How we did it’ network session, where we’ll delve into a real-world case study from council officers who’ve successfully navigated complex challenges. This session offers a unique opportunity to learn...
11th November, 2024
Discover actionable strategies and innovative solutions in this interactive ‘How we did it’ network session, where we’ll delve into a real-world case study from council officers who’ve successfully navigated complex challenges. This session offers a unique opportunity to learn...
11th November, 2024
Discover actionable strategies and innovative solutions in this interactive ‘How we did it’ network session, where we’ll delve into a real-world case study from council officers who’ve successfully navigated complex challenges. This session offers a unique opportunity to learn...
11th November, 2024
At this event we will talk through our latest research report, Constructing Consensus: The case for community-powered development and regeneration. Following the launch of the report, we would like to give our members the opportunity to hear more about...
7th November, 2024
New Local is looking for senior officers from across our Network, who are at the cutting edge of Community Power and are working to make it a reality in their area. This intimate and select group is made up of senior...
23rd October, 2024
Community Power • Practice Network • Strategy and leadership
New Local is looking for senior officers from across our Network, who are at the cutting edge of Community Power and are working to make it a reality in their area. This intimate and select group is made up of senior...
23rd October, 2024
Community Power • Practice Network • Strategy and leadership
New Local is looking for senior officers from across our Network, who are at the cutting edge of Community Power and are working to make it a reality in their area. This intimate and select group is made up of senior...
23rd October, 2024
Community Power • Practice Network • Strategy and leadership
New Local is looking for senior officers from across our Network, who are at the cutting edge of Community Power and are working to make it a reality in their area. This intimate and select group is made up of senior...
23rd October, 2024
Community Power • Practice Network • Strategy and leadership
New Local is looking for senior officers from across our Network, who are at the cutting edge of Community Power and are working to make it a reality in their area. This intimate and select group is made up of senior...
23rd October, 2024
Community Power • Practice Network • Strategy and leadership
Get ready to celebrate and get inspired at Your Next Generation Celebration. After an exceptional year of connection and growth, we are delighted to offer participants of our Next Generation programme one final opportunity to come together. This celebration...
23rd October, 2024
Our coaching programme brings together the rising stars from councils to collaborate on real-world challenges they encounter in their roles. It’s an invaluable opportunity for professional growth, while also fostering innovative solutions that can benefit your council. The core...
22nd October, 2024
Our coaching programme brings together the rising stars from councils to collaborate on real-world challenges they encounter in their roles. It’s an invaluable opportunity for professional growth, while also fostering innovative solutions that can benefit your council. The core...
22nd October, 2024
Our coaching programme brings together the rising stars from councils to collaborate on real-world challenges they encounter in their roles. It’s an invaluable opportunity for professional growth, while also fostering innovative solutions that can benefit your council. The core...
22nd October, 2024
Our coaching programme brings together the rising stars from councils to collaborate on real-world challenges they encounter in their roles. It’s an invaluable opportunity for professional growth, while also fostering innovative solutions that can benefit your council. The core...
22nd October, 2024
We put Hal Khanom in our ‘How We Did It’ hot seat to hear how the London Borough of Barnet has developed its equalities strategy, A Fairer Barnet.
17th October, 2024
Community engagement • Community Power • Equality • Local government • Strategy and leadership
Working towards a fairer share of wealth across a locality helps bind communities together and gives the impetus to help drive forward the local economy.
15th October, 2024
Creating a strategy that is shaped by frontline services as well as those accessing them is vital for local authorities.
15th October, 2024
New Local is working with independent funder The Rayne Trust to undertake research into the role that community assets such as community centres have in public life. Local authorities have an important part to play in the future of...
1st October, 2024
Join us for this member only Lunch and Learn session with Catherine Mangan, Professor of Public Management and Leadership at the Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham and New Local Board member. It’s 10 years since...
23rd July, 2024
Making the case for preventative services can be difficult, so it is vital that interventions can evidence their efficacy. Bridges Outcomes Partnerships have been working as part of the changing systems in children’s services in Norfolk and Suffolk where,...
23rd July, 2024
Colleagues throughout local government are still stuck between the rock of shrinking resources and the hard place of rising demand in many (if not all) service areas. The effect of the cost of living crisis is creating increased volatility...
23rd July, 2024
Tackling inequalities within communities is a vital issue for all local authorities. But often equalities strategies do not deliver for residents in a way that they expect or need. How can you centre equity in your Council’s work to...
22nd July, 2024
Neighbourhood ways of working are being considered by many councils as a way to bring them closer to their communities. The opportunities it can foster include building better relationships and delivering services alongside communities. At this How We Did It...
19th July, 2024
Councils have long aspired to engage residents in hyper-local decisions and collaboration through local democratic structures like Area Forums. There are great examples out there, but amidst a huge trust gap between citizens and public institutions, many councils are...
18th July, 2024
Maximising and building a strong local economy is essential to help communities thrive. Councils can use economic levers and work with their communities, anchor institutions and businesses to help drive forward their local economy. At this session we will hear...
18th July, 2024
Lydia Hutchings and Beth Kilheeney explain how the Greater Manchester Better Outcomes Partnership works with young people to prevent homelessness and how the project is being evaluated.
11th July, 2024
Community Power • Homelessness • Measurement and Evaluation • Public Services • Young people
Real-time data is a powerful tool for councils. Throughout the life cycle of a project, data can show what works and what doesn’t, leading to better decision making and improved outcomes.
10th July, 2024
Our latest research project has focused on exploring Community powered regeneration. The project is in partnership with Browne Jacobson and Local Partnerships. We have been exploring how the current approach to development could create more opportunity for participation and...
11th June, 2024
Our latest research project has focused on exploring Community powered regeneration. The project is in partnership with Browne Jacobson and Local Partnerships. We have been exploring how the current approach to development could create more opportunity for participation and...
11th June, 2024
Radical Leaders has now happened! If you are interested in hearing about similar events, please sign up to our mailing list. 19-20 September 2024Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London We’ve noticed a trend. Across local government, the most senior...
26th April, 2024
Join us for this member only Lunch and Learn session. New Local’s recent policy paper Place-based Public Service Budgets set out a case for ensuring better value for public money across all spend in an area. The report set...
28th March, 2024
Many councils are recognising that for planning to truly deliver regeneration and inclusive growth well, they need to adopt a community-centred approach to building and develop places that work for residents. Bringing communities into the consultation and conversation from...
3rd January, 2024
The unrelenting demand crisis facing our public services demands radical innovation. This is what a Sussex NHS physio practice achieved with resounding success through a Community Appointment Day. We hear from the people who turned a bold vision into...
14th December, 2023
Measuring and feeding back as a continual cycle to projects, gives the opportunity to improve outcomes for communities. A vital element of setting up any new project is how to measure impact and how to demonstrate the individual voice...
28th November, 2023
Community engagement • Community-led • Measurement and Evaluation
Councils and their employees can transform levels of trust and build towards positive relationships with residents through each interaction. People-facing services are vital, not solely for meeting resident’s needs, but also in determining resident’s attitudes and engagement with Councils. ...
28th November, 2023
New Local is looking for senior officers from across our Network, who are at the cutting edge of Community Power and are working to make it a reality in their area. This intimate and select group is made up of senior...
28th November, 2023
Community Power • Practice Network • Strategy and leadership
New Local is looking for senior officers from across our Network, who are at the cutting edge of Community Power and are working to make it a reality in their area. This intimate and select group is made up of senior...
28th November, 2023
Community Power • Practice Network • Strategy and leadership
New Local is looking for senior officers from across our Network, who are at the cutting edge of Community Power and are working to make it a reality in their area. This intimate and select group is made up of senior...
28th November, 2023
Community Power • Practice Network • Strategy and leadership
New Local is looking for senior officers from across our Network, who are at the cutting edge of Community Power and are working to make it a reality in their area. This intimate and select group is made up of senior...
28th November, 2023
Community Power • Practice Network • Strategy and leadership