Equipping placemakers to shape a thriving and equitable city
This post is from sister organisation Future of Greater Manchester (hence introducing LLDC in some detail). If you’d like to have a hosted field trip like this, get in touch! Future of Greater Manchester’s first intercity exchange hosted 37 people – and a dog! – from London Legacy Development Corporation, … Read more
Check out this summary of Leader Plus 9’s fascinating tour of what’s happening at Royal Albert Wharf, where tenure-blind housing, waterfront living and meaningful arts integration with residents are forming a vibrant new community.
We brought our Future London Leaders 29 cohort together for our first live graduation event in two years, where they shared their Proposals for London on the theme of heritage and culture.
How much of central Manchester do you attempt with just over two hours and a very knowledgeable group? All of it, of course! We didn’t get everywhere but certainly gave it a shot with this fascinating GM Leaders Plus field trip.
Alumni Rep and LB Lambeth’s Head of High Streets Laura Davy writes about the importance of supporting local community-led culture and its role in our recovery from Covid in this guest blog post.
As part of our Building recovery programme, this roundtable aimed to highlight the key challenges facing the sector when it comes to prioritising fairness in recovery. Our multi-disciplinary panel gave their reflections on the sector’s urgent priorities with key themes around procurement, diversity and skills gaps.
Alex Peters is a professional dancer and mentor who’s helped dozens of Future London Leaders candidates step outside their comfort zone and think creatively. See his excellent short video on dance and wellbeing here, part of AXA Health’s Feelgood Health Journey.
Hear about the shifting connections between culture and place in this lively conversation with cultural strategist Aida Esposito, Southbank Centre’s Gillian Moore CBE and placemaking strategist and FoL alum Paul Augarde.
How can we, as individuals and organisations, support vulnerable groups now to collectively pull out of this “V- or W-shaped” economic dive? How can we start to deliver the re-imagined town centres and local economies we want and not leave people behind? In the first of a three-part series exploring … Read more
In 2019 LB Waltham Forest was London’s first Borough of Culture. Lorna Lee, Assistant Director, Culture & Heritage, shares the highlights and challenges of WF19 and how lessons learnt from that year have informed the council’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Providing community services, space and connections is getting tougher. Historically the domain of churches and temples and technically a council responsibility, this key element of local support relies on vulnerable funding – and lots of good will. Local trusts have been delivering that support for decades, and it may be time for them to play a bigger role.