Strengthening Local Enterprise
By Paul Davies, the Chair of the Executive Board of Alliance for Enterprise, the LEGI programme for Bolsover, Ashfield and Mansfield Districts - February 2009 In 2001 a body of research was carried out by the Civic Trust and New Economics Foundation (nef) into the success factors in local economic regeneration. It examined regeneration programmes within the UK and looked at successful models from around the world. Its conclusions began an exciting programme of work which had the potential to reshape local economic growth. The programmes of locally driven enterprise growth that have emerged have established best practice models capable of replication on a wide scale.
Yet here we are, eight years later, with extensive evidence of the benefits of community based enterprise growth programmes, but with limited evidence that this learning has been taken on board as central policy. So, in this Local Work, let’s take a look at what has happened in those eight years and try to understand how central policy making has failed to learn from what has been demonstrated.
Strengthening Local EnterpriseCLES Commendations 2010
Three projects received commendations at this year's CLES Summit - Grow (Hull); The Star Inn (Salford) and East Lindsey Active (Lincolnshire).
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Local Economic Assessment Network
CLES has launched its national Local Economic Assessment Network.
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Wellbeing Evaluation
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HCA Placemaking Practice Review Panel
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