Our campaign is driven by eight remarkable community leaders. They’re making a huge difference to their places and neighbours, but in the face of obstacles that simply should not exist. They share what they do, what keeps them going, and why they’re part of We’re Right Here.
From sports to socialising, this local patch of green space provides crucial space for people to come together.
We were about to take ownership of this vital site at the heart of our community and develop it according to the community’s real needs. And that’s when things went wrong.
A Community Power Act would mean our community’s real and intense need for a more cost-effective and accessible community transport service would get the attention and funding it requires.
I have the voice of my community, I have the backing of two community football clubs and the backing of a major local property developer. What we need now is to understand how we do it.
Ben Hughes shares his experience of putting the community at the heart of service design.
It shouldn’t be so difficult for us to get a hearing when these are the decisions which so fundamentally shape our lives. I suffer from some chronic health conditions, and over the years I got increasingly frustrated that issues around reproductive and mental health were being trivialised by healthcare professionals and sexualised by the ethnic […]
I like the idea that people who live here can have influence. We have a right to expect better I have worked in public services in Barrow for most of my working life. A lot of people move to the Lake District, but it feels different when you were born and brought up here and have a […]
The Labour Party has begun to set out a vision to shift where power lies so local people can genuinely shape the places where they live. This is how to make it a reality.
Is having a metro or county Mayor enough to meet people’s ambitions for their local area? Not according to our latest polling.
With Michael Gove back in charge of “levelling up”, we’re reflecting on our campaign for community power, the progress we’ve made and the tension that sits at its heart.