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CLES Associate Director Tom Lloyd Goodwin has been appointed Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Manchester.

The role will enable Tom to retain a formal research link with the university, and provides the opportunity to link CLES’ work into progressive research agendas, particularly around public health, implementation science and knowledge mobilisation.

CLES are working with Development Trust Northern Ireland to develop a Community Charter which will outline what needs to be done to create more resilient local economies across Northern Ireland.

The Charter will seek to explore what actions local authorities can take to ensure that money stays within the local economy, and aims to capture the views and aspirations of both third sector organisations and individuals on how each can contribute to their own local economy.

CLES Researcher, Matt Todd, attended the launch of the Greater Manchester Food Poverty Alliance on 8th May.

The event brought together interested parties from across GM, including those who have experience of food poverty.

The aim of the Alliance is to produce a Food Poverty Action Plan that will:

• Reduce and prevent food poverty
• Support communities to plan and adapt to the challenge of food poverty
• Address structural issues that underlie food poverty, such as the benefits system and precarious and low-paid employment

CLES Researcher Matthew Todd will be participating in the Prout Research Institute of Portugal (PRIP)’s conference on Economic Democracy in action on May 8-9th.

The conference will be a meeting point for people and institutions who seek new solutions and socio-economic models focused on people and the planet, with local and global perspective. New examples of economic democracy, the development of resilient local economies, cooperatives, and social and environmental entrepreneurship will be presented.

CLES Chief Executive Neil McInroy is to speak at the launch event of Leading Greater Manchester on 11th May.

LeadingGM is a collective effort across Greater Manchester to mobilise a community of leaders from across all corners and sectors. It is part of a programme of activities that together will support GM leaders to achieve their Stronger Together ambition.

From 27-29th March, 150 progressive thinkers and doers from across the UK – and beyond – gathered in sunny Wigan, in response to a call for ‘an emergency summit for change’. Their aim? To build ‘a powerful coherent voice and a collective action plan for radical, positive change in the UK’. CLES was in attendance to listen, learn and share experiences of developing realisable alternatives that respond to the economic, social and environmental crises we face.

A large number of blogs have been written which provide useful overviews and interesting insights into the event – links to two can be found below. A full programme and partners list for CTRLshift can be found on their website.