Tag: Community Power

Covid-19 has brought unimaginable hardship to local communites, but it has also sparked a shift in mindset, culture and practice that helped many get through the pandemic and will provide valuable lessons for how councils and communities combine to...

13th January, 2021

Build Back Better • Community Power • Covid-19 • Local government • Shifting the Balance • Strategy and leadership

From the start of 2021, HOPE not hate Charitable Trust are starting to build a Towns Leadership Network, to improve community cohesion. The initiative is a central part of their Hopeful Towns project, and aims to support a more...

11th January, 2021

Community Cohesion • Community Power • Diversity • Immigration • Leadership • Resilience • Towns

Over six months, Pippa Coutts and her colleagues at Carnegie Trust talked to communities across the UK to gather their experience of the Covid pandemic. The resulting ‘Listening Project’ reflects on what has been learnt during this time and...

9th December, 2020

Community Power • Covid-19 • Guest Blog

A vlog from Katie Kelly, Depute Chief Executive - Safer Communities, at East Ayshire Council in Scotland. In 2013, Katie helped set up the council's Vibrant Communities Service - a ground-breaking approach to sharing power between the local authority...

7th December, 2020

Build Back Better • Community Power • Community Power and Me • Covid-19 • Interview • Mobilisation • New Local Network • Scotland • Strategy and leadership

Most of us recognise that climate change will soon overshadow every crisis that came before. But our approaches to tackling it are too often marred by denial, evasion and false optimism. In this long read, Luca Tiratelli unpacks the...

19th November, 2020

Climate change • Community Power • Environment

Health care is so much more about what happens in hospitals, writes the former Chief Executive of the English NHS. Instead, it can thrive with the help of 'health creators' - ordinary people creating healthier communities. And it's time...

13th November, 2020

Community Power • Guest Blog • Health and social care • Health care • Public Health

The crises facing care homes meant social care became part of the news during Covid-19. But how can we look beyond it to building a better system for future generations?

10th November, 2020

Community Power • Guest Blog • Health and social care • Public Services • Social Care

The wave of spending cuts about to hit councils is yet another Westminster slap in the face to local communities. Adam Lent argues that we can only stop central government’s abuse by demanding a parliamentary act protecting the rights...

2nd November, 2020

Community Power • Community Rights • Spending Cuts

Exploring the ground-breaking work of economist Elinor Ostrom, the intellectual hero of community power. And asking what it could mean for the UK today.

21st October, 2020

Build Back Better • Community Power • Ostrom • Policy

Elinor Ostrom was a Nobel Prize-winning thinker and godmother of the community power movement. Here are three vital lessons her work has for the UK today.

21st October, 2020

Build Back Better • Community Power • Ostrom

The Government’s centralised response and lethal failures on Covid mean it's time to acknowledge that local communities have rights that should be enshrined in law.

15th October, 2020

Central government • Community Power • Community Rights • Long read • Politics

The paper identifies five pillars that need to form the centre piece of any approach: economic resilience, public sector resilience, community resilience, environmental resilience and workforce resilience.

12th October, 2020

Build Back Better • Community Power • Covid-19 • Place building • Resilience

By bringing together existing evidence about the impact of community powered approaches – both in the UK and internationally – we set out a case for deeper change.

12th October, 2020

Community Power • Monitoring and Evaluation

The decline of the high street was only sped up by Covid-19 – but could commununity ownership help reverse this trend? With inspiring examples from across the UK, Ailbhe McNabola argues that it could. Doom and gloom for the...

1st October, 2020

Community Power

“We need to be creative, brave and try things that no government has ever done before.” This is how, in a recent tweet, chancellor Rishi Sunak proposed that he would protect jobs at risk from the COVID-19 crisis and...

1st October, 2020

Community Power

The rise of Mutual Aid groups was a rare positive to come out of the pandemic, seeing thousands of people coming together to help their neighbours through hardship and isolation. But as we face a second wave – will...

1st October, 2020

Community Power

A ‘marriage from hell’ between big state and big business birthed a litany of failures during Covid-19. Meanwhile, councils and communities have proved themselves far more equipped to cope. As a parliamentary debate on Covid-19 looms, Jessica Studdert argues...

25th September, 2020

Community Power

From the perspective of international comparisons, Britain’s performance during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a chastening experience. Both in terms of economics and in terms of public health, we endured outcomes far worse than many other similar nations. In...

15th September, 2020

Community Power

A new podcast series from the New York Times makes a simple observation – that the single most powerful force in American public schools are concerned white people. Over five episodes, ‘Nice White Parents’ argues that most of the...

3rd September, 2020

Community Power • Education and skills • Schools

How we can 'shock proof' our systems for a more prepared and better future?

17th August, 2020

Build Back Better • Community Power • Employment • Public Services • Resilience

This might not be your traditional summer for kicking back and relaxing with the latest page-turner, so why not try out something a bit more… powerful? Our NLGN team present their top fiction and non-fiction books on the subject...

7th August, 2020

Arts • Community Power

A new Government White Paper envisages radical reform for planning. But, while it hints at a community-led approach, it also sets rules and targets to be imposed by national government. John Myers of the YIMBY Alliance sets out how...

6th August, 2020

Community Power • Housing • Place building • Planning • Public Services

This report offers a how-to guide for organisations interested in this process, illustrating a range of potential strategies to build active, networked and powerful communities.

29th July, 2020

Community Power • How-to guide • Mobilisation • Powerful Communities • Strategy and leadership

Communities have the power to do extraordinary things. The evidence for this is all around us at the moment. However, for this potential to be unleashed, work needs to be done.

29th July, 2020

Community Power • Mobilisation

Many relationships between councils and communities were transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. How do we sustain this into a post-pandemic future?

27th July, 2020

Build Back Better • Community Power • Covid-19 • Resilience

The COVID-19 pandemic, as well as producing huge hardship and challenges, was also a time that saw incredible innovation, resilience and compassion. NLGN's new report 'Shifting the Balance', aims to capture the best examples of this

26th July, 2020

Build Back Better • Community Power • Public Services

Have a Listen: The public response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a source of much-needed hope. Thousands of spontaneous, voluntary Mutual Aid groups have emerged to support the most vulnerable people in our society. They are supplying food...

13th July, 2020

Community Power • Mutual Aid • Podcast

This report argues that the Mutual Aid phenomenon is a powerful demonstration what’s possible when communities come together.

13th July, 2020

Community Power • Covid-19 • Mutual Aid • Podcast • Powerful Communities • Third sector and civil society • Volunteering

We're talking to people leading change in local government about their work, their place, and the pandemic.

10th July, 2020

Build Back Better • Community Power • Covid-19

NLGN is proud to welcome Sir Chris Ham to our Board.

7th July, 2020

Chris Ham • Community Power • Health care • Interview • New Local Board • NHS

A growing number of councils are adopting new approaches to children's services which tap into the capacity and experiences of local people.

18th June, 2020

Childrens' Services • Community Power • Public Services

This report summarises findings from an event held with the New Local Government Network (NLGN) on the changing relationship between communities and public services during and beyond COVID-19.

9th June, 2020

Build Back Better • Community Power • Covid-19 • Public Services

In a new report, we explore how COVID is changing the relationship between public services and communities.

9th June, 2020

Build Back Better • Community Power • Covid-19 • Public Services

How can deliberative forums be used to engage and mobilise communities?

8th June, 2020

Build Back Better • Community Power • Covid-19

Throughout the pandemic central government has worked against the grain of local energy, but hope can be found in our communities and councils, writes Jessica Studdert. Councils’ confidence in the economy has fallen dramatically, according to the latest findings...

28th May, 2020

Build Back Better • Community Power • Covid-19

“Disasters shake things loose. And the things that we regarded as fixed and unchangeable can suddenly be changed” (Solnit, 2020) Rebecca Solnit has become the ‘go to’ writer for many of us, at the moment, as we anxiously seize...

12th May, 2020

Children • Childrens' Services • Community Power

04/5/20 – 08/5/20 Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information...

7th May, 2020

Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services

27/4/20 – 01/5/20 Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information...

1st May, 2020

Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services

Under pressure following criticism of his approach to testing for Covid-19, at the start of April Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced a new target: the government would be carrying out 100,000 tests a day by the end of April....

29th April, 2020

Community Power • Leadership • Local government finance • Strategy and leadership

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28th April, 2020

Community Power

Adam Lent, Director of the New Local Government Network, says we urgently need a post-pandemic recovery strategy for the public as well as the private sector. While the UK struggles to get its head around a lockdown exit plan,...

27th April, 2020

Community Power • Covid-19 • Resilience

20/4/20 – 24/4/20 Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information...

24th April, 2020

Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services

Today, there are more councils than ever who realise that they can’t do it alone. That their best work, and most robust decisions, come from working hand-in-hand with the communities they serve. This has been brought into the fore...

21st April, 2020

Community Power • Mobilisation • Public Services

Who was Elinor Ostrom? What were her key arguments? How are they relevant to localism, public services, and politics in the UK? This presentation serves as an introduction to our online symposium on Elinor Ostrom. It provides an overview...

20th April, 2020

Community Power • Ostrom • Politics • Public Services • Video

Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information that keeps local...

17th April, 2020

Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services

9th April, 2020

Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services

We draw out some of the most important ideas from Ostrom's long career and distil a set of new principles for the UK today.

7th April, 2020

Community Power • Ostrom • Public Services

3rd April, 2020

Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services

27th March, 2020

Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services

A deep global slowdown is a gift to the authoritarians. Adam Lent argues democrats need to unite around a vision of politically empowered communities to see them off. @adamjlent According to the OECD the world is heading for a...

24th March, 2020

Community Power • Covid-19 • Democracy