Ed Cox
LEP link-ups key to Northern economic future
Last week Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership set out its strategy for economic growth under the banner: realising our potential
Where next for participatory budgeting?
After a decade of experimentation with participatory budgeting, could this be the moment when the idea moves from the margins to the mainstream?
Why Big Society is key to rebalancing the economy
Some it call it Big Society but whatever the name, positive community outlook is vital if deprived neighbourhoods are going to improve.
From cuts sticking plaster to social enterprise solution
There was plenty of talk about Big Society at the Liberal Democrat conference last week including an interesting fringe where it was claimed that Jo Grimond, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 - 1967 was the “inventor of Big Society”. But many party activists were more sceptical and whilst the guiding sentiments play well with liberal philosophy, the social democrat element was concerned more about the cuts
Doing Big Society
The question is not so much ‘what are councils doing?’ but ‘what are citizens doing?’ in the name of a bigger society
