Jet Powell has joined Our Future as Operations Director, bringing her expertise as we support towns across the UK to build a thriving future. Joining as Our Future works to scale its impact and embed change for the long term, Jet will work closely with the Our Future team and wider movement to establish the
A senior lawyer from Wilkin Chapman will be joining Our Future and working with leaders across North East Lincolnshire to build a thriving future in the region. Our Future is a charity working for local and national renewal by creating a supportive ecosystem and backing people who contribute to building a flourishing future for the
Join Us for “Home Wins” – A Community Zoom Call on September 11th! Date: September 11thTime: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PMPlatform: 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 Wins”
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 love of NE
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
Social policy sits in a different bucket from industrial strategy and often reacts to the consequences of economic change rather than proactively working to ensure that economic opportunity delivers a wider social dividend. To create good growth we need to exploit the interconnectivity between industrial strategy and social policy. The coming green industrial revolution
Currently, most people living in de-industrialised communities are powerless to shape the decisions made about their areas. John Boswell, John Shillick and colleagues at University of Southampton write that deindustrialised communities are: “…‘held back’ by a systemic lack of power. Local people have lost effective control over their lives, livelihoods, and the future development
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
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
In this essay 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 are brilliant people in