Rebalance Power and Empower Citizens – Our Future

Currently, most people living in de-industrialised communities are powerless to shape the decisions made about their areas. John Boswell, John Shillick and colleagues at University of Southampton write that deindustrialised communities are: “…‘held back’ by a systemic lack of power. Local people have lost effective control over their lives, livelihoods, and the future development of their […]
Harness Economic Trends for Social Benefit – Our Future

Social policy sits in a different bucket from industrial strategy and often reacts to the consequences of economic change rather than proactively working to ensure that economic opportunity delivers a wider social dividend. To create good growth we need to exploit the interconnectivity between industrial strategy and social policy. The coming green industrial revolution which […]
Reimagine Money’s Role in Social Transformation – Our Future

Too often money blocks rather than enables change. It is designed by and for those holding the money. Many times, those driving social change do it in spite of the money rather than because of it. Money is often siloed and tied to a single issue rather than recognising that this is holistic interconnected change. Leaders patch […]