How far are UK cities putting in place an alternative approach to local economics? What would a city employing good local economic strategies look like?
New Start, CLES and NEF set out to find out, visiting ten UK cities between May 2015 and June 2016, with funding from the Friends Provident Foundation. In each city we held an event bringing together local business leaders, social entrepreneurs and council officers to discuss what’s working – and what’s not – in their local economies, and the barriers to change. We produced an edition of New Start from each city, highlighting the projects that are doing things differently.
While no single city is radically casting off the old model, each place we visited has elements that put together, show what an alternative city economy might look like.
Published October 2016.