The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) is the only membership based organisation in the UK which is dedicated to economic development, regeneration and local governance. Founded in 1986, CLES is a unique independent think and doing organisation with charitable status. CLES combines a thinking policy research element alongside a doing consultancy trading arm. In all of CLES’ work, the challenge of delivering local economic development alongside progressive environmental and social benefits is a common theme.
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Press Release- The way we assess the local economy is in danger of becoming information rich and intelligence poor and may undermine recovery says CLES
5 Feb 2010
The latest edition of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies’ [1] publication, Rapid Research [2], argues that the process of assessing the local economy should be a lot more than just a number-crunching, process driven exercise.
City Regions: Should social enterprises be paying attention?
6 Jan 2010
Enterprising, Winter 2009/2010
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Overcoming the challenges of evaluation: An advanced evaluation course
15 Feb 2010
Building on the success of our popular introductory course, this new interactive course provides more experienced delegates with advanced training on evaluation.
Using Local Multiplier 3 (LM3) to understand how money circulates in your economy
18 Feb 2010
This course will enable delegates to use LM3 to calculate the impact of public expenditure on their local economy.
Making the most of Local Economic Assessment
23 Feb 2010
This course provides delegates with an overview of the current policy and guidance in relation to the LEA duty and explores what local authorities can do to progress economic assessment in their own area.
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