Good piece. One for the #socialinfrastructure heads

COMMUNITY POWER 🎇 | 'In precisely the places that the market shuns, and where the state is often distrusted, community businesses offer a different route to revitalising a place.'

Josh Westerling for Joseph Rowntree Foundation on community business tackling hardship ⤵️
jrf.org.uk/neighbourhoods…

Communities offer life-saving protection in hard times

Our next set of blogs on how to get the most out of them is just up -- Josh Westerling julian dobson & Ed Wallis of Locality

Brilliant day yesterday sharing WeCanMake model for unlocking urban infill sites for community-led homes with community groups, councils & housing associations from across Wales. This is how to scale & replicate #CommunityLed 🙌

📆 Last week we launched our series on tackling hardship in neighbourhoods.

💡 This week, Rachel Casey and Katie Schmuecker consider building resilience and power in communities and organisations to prevent hardship spiralling and reshape the systems: jrf.org.uk/neighbourhoods….

Labour's plan is good, but for communities to #TakeBackTheHighStreet we need:

✅ A strong Community Right to Buy
✅ A level playing field with business rates
🤩 A British High Street Investment Vehicle
🤩 More Community Improvement Districts

Our plan👇
powertochange.org.uk/news/labours-h…

On Sunday, I'm running the Paris Marathon.

Since setting up this fundraising page, I've run more than 300 miles, people have donated very generously, and 10,000 more people have died in the terrible war in Gaza.

Please donate!
justgiving.com/team/nickparis…

Labour's plan to power up Britain focuses on agglomeration and the economic pillar of 'levelling up'. Some thoughts from me on how they could bolster the civic pillar too, so people can see and feel tangible change in their local area and that they are in control.

On Sunday, I'm running the Paris Marathon.

Since setting up this fundraising page, I've run more than 300 miles, people have donated very generously, and 10,000 more people have died in the terrible war in Gaza.

Please donate!
justgiving.com/team/nickparis…

🎉The National Lottery Community Fund has just announced the first £12million of grants through its UK Fund - to empower communities across the UK. Excellent friends & allies have been supported. The fund is open for applications on an ongoing basis 👇

'Neighbourhood restaurant'? See thread👇

🤝 It's only by working together that we can get the best results for people & places. We're pleased our Policy & Insight AD Nick Plumb will join Royal Borough of Greenwich's new Cooperative Commission
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Two of my favourite things. Gilles Peterson X community ownership.

Also enjoyed the mention of the Golden Lion in Todmorden. I went a few months ago. One of the best spots I've been in years.

'We could also look at models of community ownership and cooperative practices that could shore up the foundational layer of smaller venues, much like those football models from abroad.' Great piece by Gilles Peterson on how to save clubs theguardian.com/commentisfree/…