Read the full report by Reclaiming Our Regional Economies, a collaboration between leading not-for-profit organisations:

🖊️ Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES)
🖊️ @thrivingplaces.bsky.social
🖊️ @cooperativesuk.bsky.social
🖊️ @neweconomics.bsky.social

cles.org.uk/publications...

Local Growth Plans need to confront the key growth questions: "growth of what?" and "growth for who?" if the plans are truly going to deliver the increases in living standards the government is aiming for. Emmet (NEF) & Tabitha (Coops UK) set out the detail... 📑

At CLES, as well as supporting local public sector anchors to generate maximum social value from their expenditure wherever we can, we're also working on gathering and sharing best practice in the ways greater public value can be delivered outside of the confines of procurement exercises. 🌱

scrap that, this one turned out to be scarlet fever, another one of the victorian-sounding bugs off the bingo card 🥵💔

Been meaning to buy a copy of Vulture Capitalism for a while now but turns out today is the day! 🤓

Awesome! Just followed that mega list ✅ (& thanks for including me 🥹)