Reclaiming Our Regional Economies

Across the UK, people are being buffeted by crisis after crisis, while public services crumble around them. They feel disconnected from politics, power and wealth and they don’t feel like there is any way to break the cycle. Devolution was supposed to give power back to people, but, so far, all the signs point to more of the same.

But it doesn’t need to be this way. Reclaiming Our Regional Economies is a five-year programme, co-ordinated by four leading not-for-profit organisations, which is bringing communities together with political and institutional leaders to test ideas that help to re-wire and reform their regional economies, so that they deliver good lives now and for generations to come.

Each of the programmes’ three pilot regions (the West Midlands, South Yorkshire and the North East) is exploring a different pathway which will enable programme teams to test and demonstrate the many routes to delivering, not just better regional economies, but also wider systemic shifts. The diversity of these workstreams will enable us to take what we learn about what works (and what doesn’t) to create a new framework for regional economies and a new model for devolution, which demonstrates that the decentralisation of power can create fair and sustainable futures for everyone.