by Jay Tompt | Sep 4, 2022 | ideas
One of our directors, Jay Tompt, was recently asked to write a news story from 2050. A challenge, but he managed to write something that could be inspiring to people in Torbay longing for adventure, prosperity, and the sea. * * * * * * * * * * * * MAY 7th, 2050 TORBAY...
by Jay Tompt | Aug 25, 2020 | ideas, local
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...
by Jay Tompt | May 19, 2020 | ideas
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...
by Jay Tompt | Apr 1, 2020 | ideas
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...
by Jay Tompt | Apr 20, 2019 | ideas
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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