Mass Localism - How to help small communities solve big social challenges

Date: 20.05.2010

Location: The Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay, CF10 4PZ

Policymakers increasingly recognise that many of the solutions to major social challenges - from tackling climate change to improving public health - need to be much more local. 

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We need solutions that engage communities in taking action, especially given the pressure on government finances over the next few years.

NESTA's Big Green Challenge - a successful programme to support communities to reduce carbon emissions - provides some important implications for how government can support communities to take action at a lower cost than traditional initiatives.

Our Mass Localism report shows how we need to rethink our approach to galvanising communities and the benefits that could result.

Speakers

• Peter Davies, Commissioner for Wales, Sustainable Development Commission (SDC),
• Viv Sugar, Chair of Consumer Focus Wales,
• Dr Michael Harris, Director of Research, NESTA,
• Chris Blake, member ofthe Green Valleys community project in the Brecon Breacons, one of the winning communities in NESTA's Big Green Challenge and Cris Tomos, Chairman of Cymdeithas Cwm Arian Association.

View the event details in Welsh.