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Localise West Midlands
The Warehouse
54-57 Allison Street
Digbeth
Birmingham
B5 5TH
Tel: 0121 685 1155
Fax: 0121 643 3122
Email: info@localisewestmidlands.org.uk

Registered in England and Wales as a company limited by guarantee (not for profit) no: 6239211

  

LWM current and future activities

Current activities:


Summary

LWM undertakes the following sorts of work on localisation:

· Provide and publicise information, ideas and examples of good practice
· Facilitate or undertake demonstration projects
· Provide consultancy and other support to groups who are developing localist approaches
· Create supportive networks for localist action
· Challenge the barriers to localisation
· Link with similar projects outside the region and worldwide.

Our work fits mainly into the following four themes:

Housing and Finance - Working with tenant organisations and housing providers to promote local management and financing for social housing. Details of a meeting we held last year on housing solutions can be found here.

Regeneration - Working with communities to develop solutions to local needs that use local resources. LWM also chairs the Eastside Sustainability Advisory Group.

Local food - aiming to catalyse an essential shift from its niche status to become part of mainstream food supply, particularly through public procurement and regional support activities.

Retail - supporting independent retail in accessible local centres, and developing tools for strengthening local shopping; combating food and service 'deserts'; and localising supply chain links.