Tag: Members

Ideas and reflections centred around three main challenges: Engaging the whole community on climate change. Telling an external story connecting local and global environmental issues. Ensuring climate change is a priority across the council.

8th November, 2021

Climate change • Community engagement • Community Power • Members • Mobilisation • Strategy and leadership

Last month, Camden Council became the 54th member of New Local’s network of councils. Director Nick Kimber explores how community power is helping to build a better borough, and why learning and sharing with peers is more vital than...

28th June, 2021

Council Voices • Councils Respond • Members • Strategy and leadership

Balancing short-term and long-term political and financial pressures with the imperative to respond meaningfully to the climate emergency.

25th May, 2021

Budgeting • Climate change • Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Finance • Members • Mobilisation • Strategy and leadership

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

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

22nd February, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

22nd September, 2020

Community Power • Digital • Members • Strategy and leadership

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

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

Exploring how to manage demand using insights from behavioural science.

13th December, 2019

Behavioural Insights • Community Power • Impact • Innovation Insights • Members • Strategy and leadership

How to overcome common challenges and think strategically when implementing climate change policy.

4th December, 2019

Climate change • Community engagement • Community Power • Innovation Insights • Members • Narrative building • Strategy and leadership

Insights of changing organisational cultures in councils from chief executives.

29th November, 2019

Culture • Innovation • Innovation Insights • Leadership • Members • Strategy and leadership

Exploring the importance of prototyping in developing an innovation.

28th November, 2019

Community Power • Design • Impact • Innovation • Innovation In-depth • Members • Strategy and leadership

How does the design of the places we live, work and play shape our health and sense of belonging?

29th October, 2019

Community Power • Design • Housing • Impact • Innovation In-depth • Members • Place building • Transport

Looking at data, culture, and other challenges to adopting preventative approaches.

20th September, 2019

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Data • Members • Partnerships

A summary of the main ideas and lessons that emerged from the day’s discussions

20th September, 2019

Budgeting • Commissioning and Procurement • Community Power • Impact • Local government finance • Members

Exploring how councils are working to tackle loneliness.

14th March, 2019

Community Power • Health and social care • Innovation In-depth • Members • Mental health • Wellbeing

20th January, 2019

Community Power • Health and social care • Local government • Members • Partnerships

Insight into how to upskill the workforce in your area and building effective partnerships with the business community.

20th January, 2019

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

Exploring the development of partnerships between local authorities and social investors.

18th December, 2018

Community Power • Finance • Local government finance • Members • Social investment • Third sector and civil society

Developing deeper relationships with your residents and moving from a transactional relationship to a collaborative one.

20th October, 2018

Community engagement • Community Power • Community Voices • Democracy • Members • Participation and co-production

Exploring the work of local government around local renewable energy generation.

18th October, 2018

Climate change • Community Power • Environment • Infrastructure • Innovation In-depth • Members

Exploring the pros and cons of joint ventures, wholly-owned housing delivery companies and council-led delivery.

29th July, 2018

Community Power • Housing • Innovation In-depth • Members • Partnerships

Implementing the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 and using this opportunity to innovate.

20th July, 2018

Community Power • Homelessness • Housing • Members • Public Services

Starting with problems, not software and focusing on users’ needs to make the most of new digital tools.

20th June, 2018

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

Exploring how different councils have approached co-production: where users are equally responsible for shaping a service.

29th May, 2018

Community Power • Innovation In-depth • Members • Participation and co-production • Social Care • Young people • Youth

Insight into how to get the right team in place to explore the possibilities of data.

20th March, 2018

Community Power • Data • Members • Strategy and leadership

Exploring how councils are measuring social value and the impact this can have on procurement processes.

29th January, 2018

Budgeting • Commissioning and Procurement • Community Power • Impact • Innovation In-depth • Members • SMEs • Social investment

Exploring how councils are approaching inclusive growth in practice.

29th November, 2017

Community Power • Inclusive Growth • Innovation In-depth • Members • Place building

Exploring how councils can make use of behavioural insights.

20th October, 2017

Behavioural Insights • Childrens' Services • Community Power • Innovation In-depth • Members • Transport

Guide to setting up effective governance of commercialisation projects to reduce risks and enable growth.

20th October, 2017

Community Power • Finance • Local government finance • Members

Exploring different methods to frame and implement your transformation programme.

20th August, 2017

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

Key questions to ask when thinking about a trading company model, including and case studies of successful examples.

20th July, 2017

Community Power • Finance • Local government finance • Members