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In build up to the #Alumni500 celebration and Mentor Awards on 28 September, FoL is inviting Leaders course mentors and mentees to write about their mentoring experience and share what they’ve gained with the network. Writing this month is prolific FoL mentor Mark Baigent.
Future London Leaders 26 wrapped up in March 2021 with candidates presenting their Proposals for London on the theme of technology in webinar format. A virtual audience of colleagues, mentors, sponsors, alumni and course contributors tuned in to cast their votes from home.
To celebrate mentors’ valuable contribution to our courses ahead of FoL’s Mentor Awards on 28 September, were inviting mentors and mentees to share what they got out of the experience. To kick off, here is FoL’s Oli Pinch on his mentoring experience.
How can city makers respond to the changes to inner and outer London and to the deep-seated inequalities exposed and exacerbated by the pandemic? For this City Makers’ Forum, we invited a cross-sector panel to debate what it will take to level up London for all.
To celebrate mentors’ valuable contribution to our leaders courses and candidates, we invite you to nominate your favourite(s) for Future of London’s first annual mentor awards!
Interested in ways to green your town centre? Check out the video of this great Proposal for GM and get-it-done discussion. Got a Proposal to deliver yourself? Catch the six-minute behind-the-scenes interview for tips and inspiration.
Save the date! FoL hosts the #Alumni500 celebration and first mentor awards on 28 Sept at Royal Festival Hall. Reconnect with the network, celebrate by the Thames and find out how this influential group is shaping places across the UK.
Catch up on the first round of innovative Proposals for Greater Manchester from the GM Leaders Plus Round 1 candidates.
We’re once again under national lockdown restrictions and mostly living, working and playing within our local areas. This behaviour could be a short-term reaction to the new measures except there is now growing evidence of longer-term trends and an emerging form of localism. An alumni-led discussion, chaired by FoL board member Lucy Webb, explored how city makers should respond.
Future London Leaders 25 wrapped up in mid-October with candidates presenting their Proposals for London on the theme of Health and Wellbeing in webinar format. A virtual audience of colleagues, mentors, sponsors, alumni and course contributors tuned in to cast their votes from home.
The future of high streets and town centres is not a new topic, but one that has certainly been brought into much sharper focus in recent months because of Covid-19. Adding to longstanding questions over the future of bricks and mortar retail and how this impacts high street footfall, uncertainty resulting from lockdown, social distancing, changes to working patterns and planning system reform are now thrown into the mix.
On 23 September, Future of London welcomed Future London Leaders 26 – the latest round of candidates who now join more than 500 graduates in Future of London’s Alumni Network.