Localism UK

This article focuses on information specific to United Kingdom. Please see our Localism page for a topic overview.

Campaigns

Campaign for Community Banking Services, coalition of 20 national organisations sharing concerns about bank branch closures, community sustainability, financial exclusion and carbon emissions

Local Works Campaigning to implement the Sustainable Communities Act

Resources

• How-to-do-a-Local-Economic-Blueprint, reconomy.org
• Action packs from Local United
• Buxton Economic Resilience Study, Executive Summary, January 2015
• Community Shares "refers to the sale of shares in enterprises serving a community purpose. This type of investment has been used to finance shops, pubs, community buildings, renewable energy initiatives, local food schemes, along with a host of other community based ventures."
• Building a Good Local Economy
• Exploring Community Resilience, Author: Nick Wilding, Carnegie UK Trust, ISBN: 0-900259-82-5, Year: 2011
• Localism, Policy information from Gov.uk
• A plain English guide to the Localism Act, gov.uk
• My Community, Community Economic Development
• Neighbourhood Planning Roadmap
• Neighbourhood Ideas Exchange Toolkit, September 16, 2013, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
• What Needs to be Done: The Manifesto for Local Economies cles.org.uk

Funding

Maps

DCLG Community Rights

Video

News and comment

2017

Forget nimbys. Yimby housing policy can transform the UK – with the political will, Aug 11 ^[1]

“I’m welling up just talking about it”: the marvel of Totnes LEF6, May 16 ^[2]

Kent: Shop local – you can’t afford not to, May 3 ^[3]

Totnes: How ‘Grown in Totnes’ are reimagining the local food economy, May 2 ^[4]

2015

There's no economy without community, September 24 ^[5]

CLES Manifesto for Local Economies charts a more socially just future, March 17 ^[6]

2014

New support launched to help communities save local pub as a co-operative, November 11 ^[7]

2013

Mary Portas and the Golden Tickets of Dorking, November 7 ^[8]

Do our local systems need a complete overhaul to enable Open and Creative Citizenship? August 24 ^[9]

Local Economic Blueprint highlights potential of community resilience, March 28 ^[10]

Events

2014

July, Independent Retailer Month
global "Shop Local" campaign
independentretailermonth.co.uk

July 4 Independents’ Day
people1st.co.uk

May 14 - 28 Love your local market
loveyourlocalmarket.org.uk

See also

• local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
• Community energy UK
• Community involvement UK
• Ethical consumerism UK
• Food UK
• Neighbourhood Planning
• Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK
• Rural sustainability UK
• Towards sustainable economies UK
• Urban sustainability UK

External links

• Local United, diffusing practical initiatives in response to climate change and peak oil. Membership association of existing and aspiring social entrepreneurs.
• Civic Systems Lab, Seeding a local civic economy in the UK and around the world 00
• Make Works, factory finders, on a mission to make local manufacturing accessible and inspiring. Think of it like a public library. An open resource that lets you discover the relevant skilled people, places, tools and materials that allow you to manufacture, make or repair in your local area.
• REconomy Project, part of the Transition Network
• Totally Locally Ltd
• Civic Manifesto: Localism for Real, Civic Voice ^W
• Common Ground, United Kingdom charity and lobby group. Common Ground aims to promote "local distinctiveness" ^W

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