LocalMotion

Issue:
Community development
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Activities:
Peer learning
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Influencing policy or practice
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Aligning processes
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Co-ordinating funding
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Information-sharing
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Location:
UK-wide
Stage:
Existing collaboration

Aims and activities

Aims and questions

Aims and activities

LocalMotion was created by six established funders in the UK who shared a desire to find new and better ways to tackle the common issues communities face.

Working with six places in England and Wales (Carmarthen, Enfield, Lincoln, Oldham, Middlesbrough and Torbay), they are building a social, economic and environmental justice movement by communities, for communities.

The movement seeks to understand local strengths in the places and to challenge typical power structures and hierarchies that become barriers to a community’s progress and hold them back. It is about bringing people, organisations and institutions together, so that communities in the six places can benefit from joined up thinking, pooled resources and long-term collaboration and planning with the UK funding community.

Funders have got involved in places and challenged themselves on what they can do differently.

Kathleen Kelly
Director of Collaboration, LocalMotion

How to get involved

If you would like to know more about LocalMotion and collaborate on what we’re learning or get involved in some way, please contact Kathleen Kelly. We’d love to hear from you.

Who's involved

Who was involved

Who was involved

LocalMotion was created as a collaboration between City Bridge Trust, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Lankelly Chase, Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Tudor Trust.

Learning and Resources

The LocalMotion website features stories and resources from across the collaboration's work.

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