Empowering Our Communities
An online event bringing together civic activists from across England, to set a civic revival agenda for the 2021 local elections
Featuring the launch of Nine Principles for Democratic Civic Leadership
Sunday 28 March 2021, 11am – 1pm
Online event hosted from Hastings and Bexhill, register for your free place on Eventbrite here
Programme
Welcome and introduction – Civic Revival & Democracy4Bexhill
Power tools for reclaiming local politics – Peter Macfadyen, Flatpack 2021
Empowering communities: taking risks and reaping rewards - Matt Leach, Chief Executive, The Local Trust
Community Wealth Building 2.0: a new local economic model - Cllr Matthew Brown, Leader, Preston City Council
It’s Our City! A new political model for city and borough councils Ruth Hubbard, It’s Our City Sheffield
The new democratic opportunity at the local level – Viv Taylor-Gee, Democracy4Bexhill
Launch of Nine Principles for democracy civic leadership – Richard Walker, Civic Revival
What’s stopping us then? A panel discussion chaired by Peter Stonham, Civic Revival
- Peter Macfadyen (Frome, Somerset)
- Ruth Hubbard (Sheffield, Yorkshire)
- Frances Northrop (New Economics Foundation, Totnes, Devon)
- Deana Wildgoose (Coalville CAN, Leicestershire)
- Caoimhe O’Gorman (Heart of Hastings, Sussex)
- Noel Lynch (The Green Room, Finchley, London)
Q&A hosted by Nick Wates
Concluding remarks & close at 1pm
