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Community Wealth Building 2020: an urgent imperative

Quite apart from its traditional historical significance, Thursday 5th November represents a milestone for the UK in the country’s fight against Covid-19. As a second lockdown looks set to compound economic and social hardship, we are again reminded of the distressed state of our local economies and the weakened condition of the local public sector in parts of the country, following decades of austerity and underinvestment. The imperative to deliver an alternative future is now more urgent than ever.

This Thursday, CLES will host our annual Community Wealth Building Summit and, ahead of the Summit, we are today releasing Owning the Economy: Community Wealth Building 2020.

Reflections on the Community Wealth Building Summit

Back in the office at the start of a new week, the CLES team is fired with an enthusiasm that only comes with successfully bringing 200 dedicated activists and changemakers together. As we push on to drive further actions and outcomes, the team has taken some time to offer three quick-fire reflections of our own from the day about what #cwbis to us…

Workshops and training

We deliver a range of workshops, networking opportunities and events throughout the year to support individuals and organisations build community wealth in their places.

Bespoke training

CLES can offer bespoke training for your organisation, dependent on the needs of your staff or clients.

Get in touch for more information.

Networks and learning

We bring together networks of community wealth builders to cultivate connections and grow a thriving movement with collaboration at its heart.

We also deliver a range of workshops, networking opportunities and events throughout the year to support individuals and organisations build community wealth in their places. Our networks comprise of politicians, business owners, employers, citizens, and anchor institutions, spanning different sectors and representing many places. We collaborate to generate new ways of doing, share learning and to inspire, challenge and support each other.

Community Wealth Building Summit 2019: Programme

This event has now sold out. We hope to be able to release more places soon so please add your name to the waiting list here.

The Summit is the UK’s only community wealth building event dedicated to celebrating successes, sharing ideas, exploring challenges and advancing the community wealth building movement. You can view a list of contributors to this year’s summit here.

9.30am

Registration

10am

Welcome from Cllr Janette Williamson, Deputy Leader of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council

Keynote address: Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region

10.20am      

CLES: What is community wealth building, the state of the movement and what we’re doing here today

Launch of the Community Wealth Building Centre of Excellence: Rebecca Long-Bailey, MP

11am

Breakout: sector workshops

Many sectors and anchor institutions across the UK are delivering community wealth building. These workshops, facilitated by CLES, will showcase the cutting edge of practice within key anchors, but also address the challenges in building their role in the movement.

Community Wealth Building Training and Events

We run a range local wealth building training and events throughout the year.

Training

Networking events

Details coming soon.

Community Wealth Building Annual Summit

This June, join CLES for the second annual Community Wealth Building Summit! This Summit is the UK’s only community wealth building event dedicated to celebrating successes, sharing ideas, exploring challenges and building the Community Wealth Building movement.

Join the Community Wealth Builders Network

Community Wealth Building is gaining momentum in towns and cities in the UK. It has been spearheaded by those who see the failings of our current economic development model and have developed a new, democratic and socially just way of doing things.

Collaboration is at the heart of this movement, and so through the Centre of Excellence we are developing a network of community wealth builders to take back control of our local economies.

Connecting community wealth builders

Collaboration is at the heart of community wealth building, and the Centre of Excellence is a hub where individual people and places can connect and work together as a movement.

In community wealth building we are seeing the growth of a global movement of citizens, public, social and solidarity and private sector organisations. Working together these people and organisations are realising lasting change.