Home Wins – Supporting the Home Town You Love
(EVENT CLOSED) What an uplifting afternoon spent with people who love Grimsby/ NE Lincs during the first Home Wins call of 2024. Brilliant to hear about the amazing change happening in the town – from DocksFest to becoming the worlds first relationship centric town. As one attendee said – “the depth of knowledge, experience and […]
NE Lincs Home Wins Network: Connect & Support
(EVENT CLOSED) Join Us for “Home Wins” – A Community Zoom Call on September 11th! Date: September 11th Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Platform: Zoom Are you a member of the Grimsby and North East Lincolnshire diaspora? Do you have a special place in your heart for this charming town? We invite you to join our “Home […]
Our Future: Annual Open House – 25th-26th November
(EVENT CLOSED) Join Us for the Annual Open House on November 25th-26th! Mark your calendars for November 25th and 26th as we host our third annual Future Open House, celebrating the remarkable transformation happening in our town. This year’s events will bring together local and national leaders committed to building a better future. Event Highlights: […]
A Townwide Conversation on the Future
It has been amazing to kick off a townwide conversation about the future people want, working with NE Lincs Council, GTFC, The Change Arc and Demos to get people to share their thoughts about the Grimsby they want in 10 years’ time. We are using Pol.is so that people can not only vote on other’s […]
Build Trust and Social Connections – Our Future
We have fallen out of touch and out of trust with each other. In his book Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam charts the degradation of social capital in the US, within and between groups. He shows that this loss of social capital has long term consequences for addressing social issues, economic productivity and our wider health and […]
Rooted in Place and Tethered by Loved Citizens’ Institutions – Our Future
Over time, economic dogma and a rational approach to strategy and operations has all but erased “places” from the agenda. National programmes and services are designed for efficiency but experience tissue rejection on implementation. They don’t “fit” with the landscape of where we live, who we know and the pattern of our lives. They prioritise […]
Ordinary Hope: A New Way of Changing Our Country Together – Our Future
CL Policy Lab and Joseph Rowntree Foundation published an anthology sharing perspectives on how we can renew our country, have policy founded on relationships, respect and practically getting on with the work and how government can play a different role in supporting people to achieve the good life they dream of. We were thrilled to […]
Reimagine Money’s Role in Social Transformation – Our Future
Too often money blocks rather than enables change. It is designed by and for those holding the money. Many times, those driving social change do it in spite of the money rather than because of it. Money is often siloed and tied to a single issue rather than recognising that this is holistic interconnected change. Leaders patch […]
Building Our Future: February Gathering
(EVENT CLOSED) It was brilliant to have so many of you join us on February 27th for the Our Future Model Workshop at Grimsby Town Football Club, bringing together a group of 63 people who care about Grimsby and NE Lincs and want to build a positive future for the town. The workshop sparked conversations […]
Our Future Approach – Empowering Communities for Sustainable Change
In this doc: Mobilising to Build Our Future Our Future CEO, Emily Bolton, shares the vision, love and practical approach that is at the heart of Our Future’s work. We hope that this essay gives a bit more insight into what motivates us, the country we believe in and the hope we see every day. There […]
