Tag: Community Power

Rishi Sunak's budget announcement raised familiar debates about how to best secure growth. But what if we were measuring the wrong kind of growth? Luca Tiratelli puts forward the case for New Zealand-style Wellbeing Budgets - as a better...

8th March, 2021

Budgeting • Central government • Community Power • Economy and business • Wellbeing

To mark the two-year anniversary of The Community Paradigm, we’ve released a new animation explaining the big idea behind community power. And why it’s needed right now. We’ve also released […]

4th March, 2021

Community Paradigm • Community Power • Explainer • Video

In this podcast, Adam and Jess introduce a brand new preface for the Community Paradigm - reflecting on new context created by the Covid pandemic, and the increased urgency to create sustainable, fairer services.

4th March, 2021

Community Paradigm • Community Power • Podcast

To mark two years since the report's first publication - and to reflect the dramatic change in our national circumstances and outlook - Adam Lent and Jessica Studdert have written a new preface to The Community Paradigm.

4th March, 2021

Community Paradigm • Community Power

Combining policy analysis and insights from leading edge practice, The Community Paradigm sets out a new vision and policy agenda for the future of public services. It forms the foundation that shapes NLGN’s ongoing research programme and network practice...

4th March, 2021

Community Power • Devolution and reorganisation • Political Systems • Powerful Communities • Public Services

Places are where the power of different communties can come together and come to life, write PPL's Claire Kenedy ahead of our Stronger Things 2021 event.

3rd March, 2021

Community Power • Devolution and reorganisation • Third sector and civil society

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

Ruth Ibegbuna has devoted her career to amplifying the voices and broadening the life choices of young people – particularly those from working-class, BAME and Northern backgrounds. Her current pioneering work includes joining up community members scarred by Brexit...

1st March, 2021

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

Pivoting from the short-term emergency response to Covid-19 towards long-term organic community development.

24th February, 2021

Community Power • Culture • Democracy • Members • Strategy and leadership

Giving people power over their places and services produces huge benefits, new research shows, and should be reflected in new legislation.

23rd February, 2021

Community Power • Community Power The Evidence

Here are six ways we found community power is having a positive impact for people, communities and public services, and some of the brilliant examples that show this in practice.

23rd February, 2021

Community Power • Community Power The Evidence • Monitoring and Evaluation

Community power produces far-ranging benefits. But an ‘evidence paradox’, hard-wired into our policy-making system, is holding back its potential. As we launch our latest report, Community Power: The Evidence, co-author Jessica Studdert addresses the counteractive way we measure success...

23rd February, 2021

Community Power • Community Power The Evidence • Monitoring and Evaluation

Community Power: The Evidence is the first research to take a comprehensive view of what community power looks like - featuring examples from across the UK and internationally. It is also the first to collect and analyse existing...

23rd February, 2021

Community Power • Community Power The Evidence • Local government • Monitoring and Evaluation

How to build relationships with Whitehall and present persuasive evidence to civil servants.

22nd February, 2021

Central government • Community Power • Local government • Members • Partnerships

Danny Dorling is a social geographer speaking at Stronger Things 2021.

19th February, 2021

Community Power • Economy and business • Strategy and leadership

The pandemic has shown the powerful ways communities, civil society and the public sector can come together in response to local challenges. But this kind of cooperative local problem solving – what we call community power – has much...

16th February, 2021

Community Power • Health and social care • Research Reports • Third sector and civil society

How do you try to solve a problem like homelessness? By working with Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, Kirklees Council focused on asking people what they wanted to achieve. How a community-led and ‘asset-based’ approach made a difference.

15th February, 2021

Community Power • Housing

Avoiding a drift back to old norms and ways of working, addressing exclusion and preserving accountability.

15th February, 2021

Community Power • Culture • Local government • Local government reform • Members • Strategy and leadership

Covid-19 has had a severe impact on the social, economic and mental wellbeing of young people. Through a new Listening Project, we'll explore how to build 'cultural communities' for, and with, younger generations. And you're invited to join us....

2nd February, 2021

Childrens' Services • Community Power • Covid-19 • Events • Inequality • Young people

Together, councils and communities did extraordinary things during Covid-19. Our Shifting the Balance research explores how practices, cultures and attitudes changed - and how to keep hold of some of the advances for the future.

27th January, 2021

Community Power • Covid-19 • Leadership • Local government • Shifting the Balance

Neil Prior, Head of Transformation at Pembrokeshire County Council reflects on the transformation that the Covid-19 pandemic fuelled in his council - particularly in forging a closer relationship between public officials and their local community.

27th January, 2021

Community Power • Community Voices • Council Voices • Local government • Shifting the Balance • Video

Shaped by conversations with public and third sector leaders across England, Wales and Scotland, Shifting the Balance explores how councils and communities joined together to fight Covid-19. And it sets […]

27th January, 2021

Community Power • Covid-19 • Local government • Research Reports • Shifting the Balance

New Local partnered with Social Finance for an innovation exchange on establishing a new working relationship with partners.

20th January, 2021

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Members • Partnerships

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 • Leadership • Resilience

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

Creating partnerships to maximise impact on jobs, and how to match skills to opportunities.

8th December, 2020

Community Power • Economy and business • Education and skills • Employment • Members • Partnerships • Skills

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 Voices • Council Voices • Covid-19 • Interview • Mobilisation • 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 • Long read

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 • Health and social 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 • Health and social care • Public Services • Social Care

How to create a sense of shared purpose and navigate each partner's different objectives and cultures.

9th November, 2020

Community Power • Culture • Members • Narrative building • Partnerships • Place building

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

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

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

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 • 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

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

25th September, 2020

Community Power

How to build a shared agenda and tackle big decisions with elected members.

22nd September, 2020

Community Power • Digital • Members • Strategy and leadership

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 […]

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 […]

3rd September, 2020

Community Power • Education and skills

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 […]

7th August, 2020

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

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 […]

13th July, 2020

Community Power • Mutual Aid • Podcast