We did it. The Castlemaine Community Investment Co-operative borrowed $2m in small loans from 330 community members and bought our first building. We will permanently remove the building from the market to be managed by the community for the community #CommunityWealthBuilding
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October 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Don’t buy supermarket Christmas cards.
Get risoprinted cards from a local artist.
#CommunityWealthBuilding
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Get risoprinted cards from a local artist.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Loved spending the day purchasing fresh, seasonal & local produce for food support groups 🥕🥔🥕🥔🥕🥔
✅️ Quality, Collaboration & Sustainability
✅️ Increase access to fresh produce
✅️ Building farming connections
#FarmtoCommunity
#FoodSystems
#CommunityWealthBuilding
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✅️ Quality, Collaboration & Sustainability
✅️ Increase access to fresh produce
✅️ Building farming connections
#FarmtoCommunity
#FoodSystems
#CommunityWealthBuilding
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September 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Wont do any harm, but wont work. Unlike Scotland, England and Starmer seems averse to #communitywealthbuilding. Clearly he prefers throwing sweeties at poor and keeping his economics neoliberal.
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer gambles on ‘levelling up’-style initiative to tackle Reform threat
Deprived communities to be given tens of millions to patch up derelict shops, pubs and libraries and ‘restore pride’
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September 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Honoured being invited #speaker at
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24 Sept for the Cross-Party Group on Co-operatives & Mutuals about:
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#DataCooperatives #Cooperatives #WellbeingEconomy #CommunityWealthBuilding #BasqueCountry #Wales
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24 Sept for the Cross-Party Group on Co-operatives & Mutuals about:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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#DataCooperatives #Cooperatives #WellbeingEconomy #CommunityWealthBuilding #BasqueCountry #Wales
September 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Preston City Council invests £250k in NW Mutual bank, which is planning a network of more than 60 branches in the north west of England
#coops #mutuals #PrestonModel #communitywealthbuilding #banking
#coops #mutuals #PrestonModel #communitywealthbuilding #banking
Preston City Council invests £250k in regional mutual bank
Preston Council invests £250k in NW Mutual which NW Mutual plans a network of more than 60 branches in the north west of England
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September 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Mon intervention aux Journées de Mauprévoir, qui cette année étaient consacrées au thème : « Les communes, vecteur d’émancipation ? »
#municipalisme #CommunityWealthBuilding
#municipalisme #CommunityWealthBuilding
Internationale municipaliste : des expériences inspirantes à l’international nosrevolutions.fr/2025/08/30/i...
Internationale municipaliste : des expériences inspirantes à l’international - Nos Révolutions
Ce texte est issu d’une intervention prononcée lors des Journées de Mauprévoir, du 15 au 17 août 2025. Bradley Smith est maître de conférences à l’université de Nanterre en études […]
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August 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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There is power is community.
Come & hear what Beth Winter & I found, after hosting three community assemblies in the #valleys
Report launch - Weds 3rd Sept, 6 - 8, @ClwbYBont in Pontypridd
#Cymunedoli #CommunityWealthBuilding #AlternativesToCapitalism #RealIndependence
Come & hear what Beth Winter & I found, after hosting three community assemblies in the #valleys
Report launch - Weds 3rd Sept, 6 - 8, @ClwbYBont in Pontypridd
#Cymunedoli #CommunityWealthBuilding #AlternativesToCapitalism #RealIndependence
August 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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3 year Research Associate post at the University of Glasgow working on the evaluation of #CommunityWealthBuilding, working with myself and colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian and Lancaster now advertised here www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... (now advertised for external candidates too).
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August 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a great team on NIHR funded research that is important (community wealth building and health) and methodologically exciting - sounds like a win-win! please share! #communityhealth #QCA #jobs #communitywealthbuilding #publichealthresearch
🚨JOB OPPORTUNITY IN THE YUNUS CENTRE🚨 We are looking to recruit a Research Fellow to join our team working on The CoWBELLS project, a mixed methods, theory-based, impact evaluation of Community Wealth Building in Scotland. Apply here: myjobscotland.gov.uk/education/gl...
Research Fellow (1.0FTE) - GCU01845 | Glasgow Caledonian University | myjobscotland
View details and apply for this research (further / higher education) role in Glasgow with Glasgow Caledonian University on myjobscotland
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August 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Trendy 'economic system change' frameworks and ideas may be admired in elite intellectual and policy circles - but they are high theory, low practice.
Instead we must root change in everyday lives and take real action- #communitywealthbuilding
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Instead we must root change in everyday lives and take real action- #communitywealthbuilding
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Beyond Cake-And-Eat-It: The Limits of Trendy ‘System-Change’ Frameworks — The Democracy Collaborative
Governments, think tanks, and philanthropic foundations parade bold system-change agendas, yet the substance rarely matches the slogans when it comes to concrete material outcomes.
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August 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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3 year Research Associate post working on evaluation of #CommunityWealthBuilding working with me @uofglasgow.bsky.social and colleagues from @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social and Lancaster: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Research Associate in the evaluation of Community Wealth Building
Please note this vacancy is open to current University of Glasgow employees only. Job Purpose This position is based in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow and ...
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August 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Community wealth building and the wellbeing economy: routes to a better future.
Lukas Bunse reflects on this year's community wealth building summit
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Lukas Bunse reflects on this year's community wealth building summit
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Community wealth building and the wellbeing economy: routes to a better future - TFN
Lukas Bunse reflects on this year's community wealth building summit
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August 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Looking forward to working on this. #communitywealthbuilding #kansascity
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Building Community Wealth in Kansas City — The Democracy Collaborative
The Democracy Collaborative, as part of the Missouri Research Consortium, has been awarded a grant to launch a landmark Community Wealth Building initiative in Kansas City.
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July 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Really useful analysis by Daniel Wortel-London on the contributions that Community Wealth Building approaches could offer for Zohran Mamdani's agenda.
#Mamdani
#CommunityWealthBuilding
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#Mamdani
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Zohran Mamdani and the Economic Transformation of New York City — The Democracy Collaborative
Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in New York City’s Democratic Primary has opened up new horizons of possibility for economic transformation in America’s cities.
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July 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Fab blog.
New York City already contains seeds of a new economy – an economy rooted not in extraction but in democratic ownership, community control, and long-term equity. The #CommunityWealthBuilding ecosystem is not hypothetical here. It’s real.
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New York City already contains seeds of a new economy – an economy rooted not in extraction but in democratic ownership, community control, and long-term equity. The #CommunityWealthBuilding ecosystem is not hypothetical here. It’s real.
www.democracycollaborative.org/blogs/zohran...
Zohran Mamdani and the Economic Transformation of New York City — The Democracy Collaborative
Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in New York City’s Democratic Primary has opened up new horizons of possibility for economic transformation in America’s cities.
www.democracycollaborative.org
July 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Does Edinburgh's Royal Mile need 72 gift shops?
No. We need better economic plans and strategies that effectively place tourism sector through prism of #communitywealthbuilding climate, ecology and ever increasing wealth extraction and concentration.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. We need better economic plans and strategies that effectively place tourism sector through prism of #communitywealthbuilding climate, ecology and ever increasing wealth extraction and concentration.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Overtourism: Does Edinburgh's Royal Mile need 72 gift shops?
People living in the area say they are seeing the overtourism problems being experienced across Europe.
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July 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Scotland's goal is to address child poverty- so no child grows up without the basics they need to thrive. To achieve this we must marry the rights-based machinery of social policy with the economic power of #communityWealthBuilding.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-co...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-co...
July 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Two recent events in England offer useful perspectives on the state of play with #CommunityWealthBuilding globally, and in the contexts of the particular challenges in Britain and America.
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Circling around the centrality of economic system change — The Democracy Collaborative
Two recent events in England offer useful perspectives on the state of play with Community Wealth Building globally, and in the contexts of the particular challenges in Britain and America.
www.democracycollaborative.org
July 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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"The privilege of days like yesterday is the space they offer to be challenged; to reflect; to hear what other people are up to; to articulate your own thinking."
@sarahdavidson.bsky.social shares reflections from the #CommunityWealthBuilding Summit in our new blog: carnegieuk.org/blog/strengt...
@sarahdavidson.bsky.social shares reflections from the #CommunityWealthBuilding Summit in our new blog: carnegieuk.org/blog/strengt...
Strength in numbers: Reflections from the Community Wealth Building Summit - Carnegie UK
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July 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Thank you to the wonderful folk at CLES for convening a brilliant array of changemakers & conversations for today’s #CommunityWealthBuilding Summit 2025.
All united by a vision of fairer, more democratic local economies.
#CWBSummit2025 #LocalEconomies #InclusiveEconomy
All united by a vision of fairer, more democratic local economies.
#CWBSummit2025 #LocalEconomies #InclusiveEconomy
July 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Fantastic to be at Manchester Metropolitan University this morning for the #CommunityWealthBuilding Summit 2025!
July 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Excited to represent #EconomicJusticeBrum and @barrowcadbury.bsky.social at the #CommunityWealthBuilding summit today - looking forward to some great speakers
🚨 Launching today at the #CommunityWealthBuilding Summit 🚨
🧭 Public money, public purpose – a new guide from for how the public sector can maximise public value through procurement.
Grounded in real practice. Backed by 50+ voices from across the UK.
📖 cles.org.uk/publications...
🧭 Public money, public purpose – a new guide from for how the public sector can maximise public value through procurement.
Grounded in real practice. Backed by 50+ voices from across the UK.
📖 cles.org.uk/publications...
July 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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🚨 Launching today at the #CommunityWealthBuilding Summit 🚨
🧭 Public money, public purpose – a new guide from for how the public sector can maximise public value through procurement.
Grounded in real practice. Backed by 50+ voices from across the UK.
📖 cles.org.uk/publications...
🧭 Public money, public purpose – a new guide from for how the public sector can maximise public value through procurement.
Grounded in real practice. Backed by 50+ voices from across the UK.
📖 cles.org.uk/publications...
July 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Inching towards #circularity. #CircularEconomy #CommunityWealthBuilding #LibraryofThings
Is it time to take a good look at our belongings with a view to sharing the occasionally used? Switching 1st 2 words turns it from a question to a statement: we can do it.
Inching towards #circularity. #CircularEconomy #CommunityWealthBuilding #LibraryofThings
Is it time to take a good look at our belongings with a view to sharing the occasionally used? Switching 1st 2 words turns it from a question to a statement: we can do it.
‘Own less, have more’: French app rents out underused household items
Poppins connects people who have things they use rarely with those who want to buy or rent them
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June 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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