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Local Trust is a place-based funder supporting communities to achieve their ambitions.

Democracy Collaborative

Democracy Collaborative works to carry out a vision of a new economic system based on shared ownership and control.

New Economics Foundation

NEF aims to create a new economy that works for people and within environmental limits.

Locality

Locality is the national membership network for community organisations.

Centre for Local Economic Strategies

CLES aims to achieve social justice, good local economies and effective public services for everyone, everywhere.

Stir to Action

Stir to Action is building a new economy based on democratic ownership through workshops, economic development, and a magazine.

Power to Change

Power to Change supports and develops community businesses in England.

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We Own It

We Own It campaigns for public services run for people not profit.

Co-operatives UK

Co‑operatives UK is the network for Britain's thousands of co-operatives.

Preston Community Wealth Building

Preston, recently named the UK's "most improved city", has pioneered more democratic ways to build local wealth.

Islington Community Wealth Building

Islington, with some of the richest and poorest residents in the country, aims to build a more democratic economy.

Portpatrick Harbour

Community shares helped a struggling village revive its harbour.

Sovereign Harbour

Threatened by corporate developers, a fishing community took control of their harbour.

Marine Dream Hub

Coastal hub brings together marginalised communities to make the most of their marine environment and boost their local economy.

Poole Harbour

A once illegal fishery has been reborn as a model of sustainability.

The Exchange

This community arts centre has plans for workspaces, exhibition space and housing in neglected local buildings.

Arran COAST

Community-led campaign saved seabed and marine life from devastation.

Grays Riverside

Thurrock network is strengthening community ties and building local wealth.

Grasshoppers In The Park

Parents and staff work together to provide high-quality, affordable childcare at this co-operative nursery.

Friendly Families nursery

This brand new nursery provides affordable, child-centered care co-produced by parents and staff.

Scallywags nursery

Parents collaborate with skilled staff to provide high-quality affordable care at this well-established nursery.

Impact Hub

Impact Hub is a community centre and co-working space which aims to build a more equal and just city.

The Larder

This workers' co-operative connects local growers with businesses in the fightback against food poverty.

Space4

Space4 is a co-working space for social enterprises and worker co-operatives in the digital tech sector.

Novograf

Former owners sold leading signage company to its workforce.

Equal Care Co-op

Co-op matches those seeking care with care workers and professionally trained volunteers.

Suma Wholefoods

Suma, Europe’s largest equal-pay co-op, recently celebrated its 40th birthday.

Riverford Organics

Riverford switched to employee ownership to protect its values and independence in 2018.

Aardman

Founders of UK’s biggest animation company handed 75% share to employees to ‘safeguard independence’.

Richer Sounds

Founder Julian Richer transferred 60% of his shares into a John Lewis-style trust.

Memiah

Company connecting people with self-care and counsellors trails four-day week.

Kitty’s Launderette

Not-for-profit launderette offers a cheap place to wash and dry clothes and a warm, welcoming space for the community.

Save Latin Village

Small business owners are fighting plans to develop their north London home.

Start Haringey

Residents and workers aim to turn former hospital site into affordable housing.

Rural Urban Synthesis Society (RUSS)

RUSS works to create sustainable neighbourhoods and genuinely affordable homes.

Lilac – Low Impact Living Affordable Community

Lilac is a environmentally-friendly housing co-op with an innovative funding model.

Walterton and Elgin Community Homes

Tenant-controlled housing estate emerged from the struggle of residents against the sale of their homes to private developers.

St Clements CLT

After a decade of campaigning, this community land trust has tied prices to local incomes.

Granby 4 Streets

A determined group of residents saved their streets by taking them over.

Fossetts for the People

Campaigners want to ensure former NHS land is used for publicly owned social housing.

Save Druids Heath

Residents fight council plans to rebuild their homes that ignore their community.

Welcome to Our Woods

Community organisation runs forests for the benefit of all.

Isle of Ulva

Community campaigners buy their island.

Isle of Eigg

Community-owned Eigg has been labelled Britain's most eco-friendly island.

Guardians of the Arches

Railway arch-based small businesses fight for affordable rents.

East End Trades Guild

Alliance of 300 small businesses and independent traders takes on landlords and big business.

People's Energy

East Lothian company aims to take on the Big Six energy suppliers and give profits back to customers.

Schools’ Energy Co-operative

Schools’ Energy Co-operative has installed solar panels on schools across the country, working with a network of local groups.

Hackney Energy

Hackney Energy works with residents to build community-owned solar power.

Energise Barnsley

Co-op is the largest local authority and community solar energy and battery storage project in the UK.

YnNi Teg

YnNi Teg develops and builds renewable energy generators in Wales, funded by community shares.

Nottingham City Transport

Largest local authority-owned bus operator in England tops customer satisfaction tables.

Reading Buses

England's second-largest municipal bus operator invests £3m a year into the network by not having to pay dividends.

Lothian Buses

The UK's largest public bus company returns its profits to the councils that own it.

Avon Mutual

Avon Mutual is one of a new breed of community-owned banks that aim to put people and the planet first.

South West Mutual

South West Mutual is a member-owned, high-street bank dedicated to residents and small businesses.

North West Mutual

Community bank will help local businesses and individuals neglected by mainstream banks.

Robert Owen Community Banking

Ethical fund provides finance for small businesses, home improvements and community energy projects.

Common Wealth

Common Wealth designs ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.

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Autonomy

Autonomy is an independent, progressive think tank with one focus: work.

B4RN: Broadband for the Rural North

Not-for-profit community benefit society provides one of the world's fastest broadband services.

Administrate

Tech firm offers staff a three-day weekend, all year round.

Advice Direct Scotland

Advice centre adopted a four-day week without loss of pay.

Normally

Staff at design company Normally have worked a four-day week since it was founded in 2014.

Radioactive PR

PR firm’s shift to four-day week has proved highly popular with staff – and the company has grown.

Simply Business

250 call centre staff will take part in UK's largest four-day working week trial.

Reclaim Holloway

Alliance of residents and campaigners fought for former women's prison site to be used for collective good.

Introduce a Co-operative Economy Act

A legal framework tailored to the needs of co-operatives and supportive of their future development.

Create new sources of finance for co-ops

Create financial instruments and institutions tailored to the needs of the co-operative economy.

Launch a Co-operative Development Agency

A network of support and capacity building to develop and extend the capabilities of the co-operative movement.

Implement an employee right to own

Co-operatise existing businesses to accelerate new models of ownership and increase the volume of the co-operative sector in the UK.

Promote community wealth building

Support co-ops to thrive in their localities by anchoring them within place-based industrial and community wealth building strategies.

Start inclusive ownership funds

An economic heartbeat that transfers the ownership and control of businesses to workers and other key stakeholders.

Increase statutory paid leave

If pay is protected, increased leisure time for workers will boost demand and life satisfaction.

Prototype shorter working hours in the public sector

Run shorter working week trials in the public sector as experiments to improve wellbeing and productivity.

Create a Public Land Bank

End the fire sale public land and instead use surplus land to form the basis for a Public Land Bank.

Start an English Land Commission

Commission will design a strategy for a fairer, more inclusive system of land and land ownership.

Close the viability loophole

Stop private developers from evading affordable housing requirements.

Tax unfair landowner gains

Redistribute unfair gains which landowners derive through public investment and land value increases.

Increase the supply of social housing

Expanding social housing is the only way government can meet its 300,000 target for new homes each year.

Introduce an NHS land community-lock

Any land asset sold by the NHS through choice, necessity or obligation should be used for community benefit.

Create a public register of landlords and rents

And open-access database of landlords is crucial to introducing rent control.

Introduce rent controls

Controls will create a fairer, more affordable private rented sector in London, and provide a model for other cities.

Introduce a Weekly National Allowance

A weekly cash payment of £48 a week could lift 200,000 families out of poverty.

Cap the cost of credit

Credit cards and other debt need to be regulated like payday loans.

Reverse austerity

Austerity has pummelled living standards and public services. Now is the time to end it.

Expand democratic public ownership

New models of public ownership ensure control by users, workers and communities.

Insource public services

Ending outsourcing can help government and local authorities reduce costs and improve services.

Create social wealth funds

Redress the imbalance between public and private wealth with commonly owned investment funds.

Finance a Green New Deal

Government-led investment is vital – here are five ways to pay.

Replace GDP with better measures of national success

Better headline indicators – that reflect the things we really want – are essential for better policymaking.

Create a Common Ground Trust

Buying land from underneath houses and leasing it to members will expand the number of people ready to buy a house.

Institute for Public Policy Research

IPPR is a registered charity and pre-eminent progressive think tank.

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The Annexe

Hartlepool has one of the UK's highest unemployment rates, but new approaches aim to buoy local wealth.

Centre for Labour and Social Studies

Originating in the trade union movement, CLASS works to ensure policy is on the side of everyday people.

Positive Money

Positive Money campaigns for a money and banking system that enables a fair, sustainable and democratic economy.

Common Weal

Common Weal is a ‘think and do tank’ campaigning for social and economic equality in Scotland.

Turn RBS into a network of local banks

New banks would be owned in trust for the public benefit and mandated to lend only within their local area.

Expand the community and co-operative banking sector

Stakeholder banks can be mandated to serve the public interest or local communities rather than simply to maximise returns.

Launch a national investment bank

National investment banks can steer capital towards public priorities and economic transformation.

Introduce a Sustainable Economy Act

Climate change laws should be extended to set binding targets to protect all aspects of our environment.

Green the UK financial system

To deliver a Green New Deal we must rethink the role of government, the Bank of England and financial institutions.

Green the Treasury

The Treasury must replace its narrow focus on financial sustainability with support for a Green New Deal.

Insulate and solarise our homes

UK homes are some of the most expensive to heat in Europe. We can reduce emissions and fuel poverty.

Create a Land Development Corporation

A corporation with the power to purchase, develop and sell land can ensure it is managed in the public interest.

Reform compulsory purchase laws

Changes would mean that public authorities, rather than landowners, would capture the uplift in land value.

Raise the national minimum wage

Raising the minimum wage would increase demand and boost productivity.

Better Buses for Greater Manchester

Passenger-led campaign for affordable, easy, reliable, regulated buses.

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Stir to Action new economy programme

Join workshops in Plymouth, Bradford, Newcastle, Bristol, London and Dorset.

Eckington Against Fracking

Local residents battle multinational chemicals giant Ineos to prevent fracking.

Roll out universal basic services

Quality public services allow us all to live better lives, and should be expanded beyond health and education.

Restore and rewild a quarter of UK land

Plan will help the UK reach net zero carbon emissions, restore biodiversity and help us adapt to climate change.

Introduce free personal social care

Free support for over-65s will help people age with dignity and close unsustainable divide between NHS and social care.

Implement a Blue New Deal for coastal communities

Put coastal communities in control so they can shape local priorities, value their greatest asset and revitalise the UK coast.

Boost the power of trade unions

Stronger unions will counter the UK's low pay, low productivity economy.

Goldsmith Street

Winner of the 2019 RIBA Stirling prize, these eco-friendly homes are one of the first new council housing projects in a generation.

Introduce a maximum pay ratio

Executive pay has become divorced from reality. A pay ratio will spread wealth and reduce inequality.

London Renters Union

Tenants are taking action against rip-off landlords to win lower rents and longer tenancies.

A manifesto for private renters

National Renters Manifesto covers six themes chosen and developed by renters themselves.

Reform and directly fund childcare

Measures will boost funding and create providers that put families before profits.

Create devolved ‘just transition’ funds

Government should devolve a proportion of its Green New Deal budget to support local just transition plans.

Create affordable workspaces

Affordable workspaces are essential to the survival of independent businesses.

The Clipper

Local residents bought an empty pub and turned it into the city’s first community-owned market.

Rock House

A community-rooted development company transformed a run-down office block into a creative, collaborative, mixed-use hub.

CMG Technologies

Suffolk manufacturing firm is the first business in the region to work a four-day week.

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Homebaked

Residents saved their iconic neighbourhood bakery and transformed it into a thriving community run-business.

People’s Bank

Planned regional, mutually-owned bank aims to boost the economy of the north-east of England.

North Ayrshire Community Wealth Building

Scotland’s first community wealth building strategy aims to spread prosperity in an area with historically high poverty rates.

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