Tag: Community Power

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

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 • 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

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 • Council Voices • Covid-19

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

7th July, 2020

Community Power • Health and social care • Interview • New Local Board

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

Experiences of engaging communities - both successes and initiatives that didn't work as well as hoped.

15th June, 2020

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Democracy • Members

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 […]

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 […]

12th May, 2020

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 […]

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 […]

1st May, 2020

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

How to identify what to measure and get buy-in for assessing impact.

30th April, 2020

Community Power • Culture • Impact • Innovation • Members • Strategy and leadership

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 […]

29th April, 2020

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

17th April, 2020

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

9th April, 2020

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