Open Hour: June
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Take a step back from the daily rush and join the CLES Open Hour – a relaxed, open space for people across the UK working in local economic development to:
- Connect with like-minded peers
- Hear the latest from the CLES team
- Make sense of policy changes and emerging ideas
- Create space to think, reflect and recharge.
In an ever-changing landscape, this is your opportunity to pause, share and build valuable connections. Every month we’ll review an emerging topic.
This month: Julian Boys, CLES’s Associate Director for Economic Strategy, will be sharing some of the findings from work we recently concluded in Sheffield, developing a roadmap for the local public sector to support a sustainable, healthy and local food economy in the city.
Topics we’re likely to cover include:
- Local food resilience – how can we strengthen local supply chains and reduce reliance on global industrial systems?
- Food justice – what ensures fair access to healthy, affordable food for all communities?
- Role of policy – how can councils and other anchor institutions shape and support sustainable food systems?
- Measuring change – what does success look like, and how do we track it?
Got a question you’d like us to answer? Submit it here and we’ll cover it in the discussion.
