Community Britain is the newest campaign from the Co-operative Party that highlights the role communities are already playing in solving our nation's most pressing challenges and reclaims the role of communities as a serious political and economic force – not just a feel-good afterthought.
For our first Community Britain publication, we asked community leaders, experts and representatives from around the country what community meant to them. The result is an essay collection, Stories from Community Britain, that showcases the communities across the country who are already pioneering solutions to important issues like climate change, economic stagnation and social cohesion.
Taken together, these stories provide a blueprint of what our country could look like if every community had the power, ownership, and resources to shape the places they live.
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Read our ground-breaking new polling report, Holding on to HOPE: Lessons from Community Britain, in partnership with Hope Not Hate.
Our latest report explores how people across Britain feel about their country and their communities. When people look at the national picture, the mood is bleak. But at the local level, it’s a different story. People still believe in their communities – and in each other.
If we want to change how people feel about politics, we have to start where hope still exists. Read the report now to get the full polling and recommendations.
Power in our Communitiesis a new joint report from the Co-operative Party and the Labour Climate and Environment Forum (LCEF).
This Labour government has made a historic commitment to expanding community-owned energy, giving communities a tangible stake in our clean energy future and helping to build climate consensus at a local level.
As this agenda comes under increasing political pressure, now is the time to continue to make the case for a strong community-led consensus on net zero.
This joint report, with foreword by Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband MP, contains contributions from a range of experts in the field, making the case that building consensus for our net zero agenda must start at a local level.
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