Creating good city economies in the UK
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  • Community
    • Commissioning and procurement
      • Run a local service
      • Bid for a local asset if it’s closing down or being sold
      • Manage or own a public asset
      • Bring arts and culture into local services
      • Change the way food is procured
    • Housing
      • Have influence over the way my neighbourhood develops
      • Build houses or facilities for my community
      • Provide the housing my community needs
      • Set up a community land trust
      • Build a low impact development
      • Use social investment to build housing for the vulnerable
    • A thriving local economy
      • Create local social supply chains
      • Make sure money stays within my community
      • Develop community economics
      • Run a micro-granting event
    • Finance
      • Set up a local bond to improve social outcomes
      • Secure funding when the banks won’t lend
      • Set up a bank for community benefit
      • Get a cheap start-up loan
      • Sell community shares to raise money
      • Raise cash from the ‘crowd’
      • Get investment to grow a social business
    • Energy
      • Generate energy collectively with my community
      • Secure community funds through renewable energy
      • Get start-up funds for rural community energy
      • Make my whole town self-sufficient in renewable energy
  • Government
    • Commissioning and procurement
      • Commission for social value
      • Co-produce local services
      • Pool budgets and commission jointly
      • Use public sector spend to stimulate the local economy
    • Housing
      • Use pension funds to finance housing
      • Funding council housing through a local bond
      • Encouraging community-led housing
      • Transfer housing to employee-owned mutual
      • License landlords
      • Using neighbourhood plans against second homes
      • Enable self-build
      • Provide a loan to enable affordable, low carbon housing
    • A thriving local economy
      • Set out standard for employers
      • Support SMEs with funding
      • Build a foundational economy
      • Help communities take over assets
    • Finance
      • Devolve funding decisions to communities
      • Support local credit unions
      • Set up a local bank
      • Use borrowing powers
    • Energy
      • Set up an energy company
      • Collective energy switch
      • Support community energy projects

I'm in and I want to... create good city economies in the UK.

As public sector funding continues to shrink, community and civic organisations are playing bigger roles in the health and wellbeing of their localities. Many community organisations are already tapping into the powers that exist to enable civil society to protect their communities and help them flourish.

The power to do anything

  • Power to do anything

Commissioning & Procurement

  • Run a local service
  • Bid for a local asset if it’s closing down or being sold
  • Manage or own a public asset
  • Bring arts and culture into local services
  • Change the way food is procured

Housing

  • Have influence over the way my neighbourhood develops
  • Build houses or facilities for my community
  • Provide the housing my community needs
  • Set up a community land trust
  • Build a low impact development
  • Use social investment to build housing for the vulnerable

A thriving local economy

  • Create local social supply chains
  • Make sure money stays within my community
  • Develop community economics
  • Run a micro-granting event

Finance

  • Set up a local bond to improve social outcomes
  • Secure funding when the banks won’t lend
  • Set up a bank for community benefit
  • Get a cheap start-up loan
  • Sell community shares to raise money
  • Raise cash from the ‘crowd’
  • Get investment to grow a social business

Energy

  • Generate energy collectively with my community
  • Secure community funds through renewable energy
  • Get start-up funds for rural community energy
  • Make my whole town self-sufficient in renewable energy

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