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21/07/2010
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Along with a new coalition government comes a new language and new priorities. Fortunately many of them are a good match for the work of Groundwork and we are progressively demonstrating how we can support the changes underway.
The concept means giving communities everywhere the knowledge, the tools, the confidence and the freedom to fashion their own effective and lasting solutions to local problems. Tackling the poverty of aspiration will need to go hand in hand with remedying the symptoms of material disadvantage and this policy could provide a platform for local areas to fashion a future in which communities are more resilient and less dependent on state intervention.
Work is the single most important factor in helping neighbourhoods escape from poverty. Delivering education, skills and jobs – and the personal freedom and social mobility that come with economic independence - are therefore crucial in establishing a cycle of improvement.
Our work with Future Job Fund, linked to our apprenticeship and community empowerment work over the last few months has been dovetailed with wider regeneration work to improve the fabric and functionality of places and shown how the Big Society can be made to work.
With a supportive policy framework and a new consensus around the importance of civil society the opportunity exists to do even more over the next three years. Groundwork’s extensive infrastructure is at the disposal of central and local government to help communities seize the opportunities that will be presented, to make change happen and, crucially, to make it last.
For a more detailed analysis please see report.
