This is a great volume on Community Wealth Building, newly available from Polity Press. Inspired thinking – drivers for action.
Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill make the case that ‘…a new model of economic development is emerging in our cities and communities. Offering real, on the ground solutions to localities and regions battered by successive waves of disinvestment, de-industrialisation, displacement and dis-empowerment…(new) approaches capable of producing more sustainable, lasting and equitable economic outcomes’. (Source The Case for CWB, p.1)
This book, and the work of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies in Manchester were inspirational in 2019. You can read our response to this development thinking, and our micro-business approach to change, here.
We still welcome all enquiries for our services and support in 2020. SocEntEastMids – free resources for the building of socially useful business.
