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Launch of the Social Economy Hub
Local Spark: Torbay Community Supported Enterprise CIC are excited to announce a new shared workspace in Paignton to support the growing social economy in Torbay. On Thursday 8th February, Torbay’s Social Enterprise Network (TSEN), set up and run by Local Spark, came...
So, what’s the ‘community of dragons’ all about?
In short, it's all about participation. We - all of us - can invest just a bit ourselves to make the change we want to see in the world. We gather this year (and maybe every year from now on) to support our friends and neighbours who are taking a risk to create and...
News from 2050 – ‘TORBAY FERRYSAIL CBS LAUNCHES NEW ROUTE TO A CORUÑA’
Since the company launched in 2041, it’s been full sail ahead and profits have grown each year, rising to just over £1,200,000 in the financial year just ended. As a CBS, a Community Benefit Society, it is a cooperative social enterprise that invests its profits in the company and the community.
The regenerative power of networks
(Photo credit: Loreto Oyarte Galvez - High resolution mycelium network) We’re all about relationships. But if you’re reading this, I bet you already know that. Afterall, the opening words of our website spell it out: “…we work with members of all communities...
The Regenerate Devon Summit
Oh my goodness, it was EPIC! We partnered with Plymouth Social Enterprise Network and Essence of Exeter, along wth Torbay Community Development Trust, Colab Exeter and Pop+, to organise the biggest conference on economic regeneration Devon has ever seen. There were...
Community enterprise advantage in the time of COVID: Making government support work harder
by Andrew Shadrake My colleague Jay Tompt recently commented that this is the moment when many of the community-led solutions to our economic ills are needed and the conditions for building long term change are favourable. In this post, I’ll highlight how true that...
Local Resilience Now! – or what we can do to build local economic resilience in this crisis and create the conditions for regenerative economic transformation
To state the obvious, political and economic change happens in all kinds of ways including through crisis and calamity. For those of us working for change at local, municipal and regional scales, this is the moment when many of the solutions we've been promoting are...
Torbay’s 1st Local Entrepreneur Forum – a roaring success!
What magic can happen when local people who are invested in their community get together to exchange ideas, create new schemes and offer tangible help to new, and up- and-coming businesses. On Friday 7 June 2019, the Lucky 7 Club in central Paignton welcomed...
Citizen-led Economic Transition – a four point framework for guiding action
Perhaps we all agree the current economic system is the problem. This is, of course, a generalisation which could be endlessly unpicked and elaborated. But if we’re concerned about global warming, biospheric damage, inequality, etc, the globe-sized elephant in the...
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