LOCAL ALCHEMY ENTERPRISING COMMUNITY FRAMEWORK
NEW SUSTAINABLE LOCAL ECONOMYContributing to social well-being through positive triple bottom line outcomes at the local level
Positive local economic outcomes / Positive social outcomes / Positive environmental Outcomes
Responsible Enterprise & Business Sector / Positive Local Money & Resource Flows / Assets Base & Enabling Environment / Public & Business Sector Responsiveness / Community & Civil Voice & Capacity / Environmental Sustainability / Interdependence
Outcomes / Diverse & vibrant range of responsible businesses and enterprise responding to market demands / Positive local economic money and social- environment consequences / Strong local economic asset base and supportive enabling environment / Public and businesses bodies working to strengthen & invest in local economy / Strong leadership, activism, participation, cohesion & capability of individuals and voluntary sector / Positive social & economic change with ecological efficiency. / Increased understanding of economic, cultural and ecological interconnections that link communities, span the globe and impact on the future.
Indicators
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Progress / · Range of large, medium & small enterprises producing goods and services sustainably.
· Level of transition from informal to formal sector.
· Range of stable and growing sub-sectors, some established, others responding to new demand
· Range of social and private actors in enterprise
· Range of income sources, including uptake of benefits and enterprise schemes, beyond business and employment
· Local investment and re-investment opportunities / · Local multiplier effect of businesses (i.e. up and down stream local money flows)
· Level of household expenditure spent locally.
· Level of local government and schemes budgets spent locally
· Local (re-) use of waste, energy and resources
· Degree of adverse social impact in the community.
· Degree of adverse environmental impact in the community / · Use of human assets (skills, knowledge, experience, motivation and can-do spirit)
· Level of financial assets (investable resources, access to credit)
· Knowledge assets (including business & market info & advice services)
· Physical assets (good natural, transport, utilities, communications, work and trading spaces)
· Nature of and uptake of fiscal instruments, incentives & schemes. / · Public bodies’ demonstrated ability to listen and act on civil sectors expressed desired outcomes reflecting these in master-planning and budget setting
· Degree of co-production in the design and delivery of public services.
· Degree of all sector co-ordination & mutual respect, consensus and shared vision
· Responsiveness of strategic partnerships (SSPs & LSPs) to community priorities for sustainability & action
· Responsiveness of business to support sustainable local economic development
· Public and private body level of volunteering in informal support networks within community / · Number of active social entrepreneurs, social enterprises and local voluntary sector organisations;
· Volunteering from within and by the community
· Ability of civil sectors to work together & resolve conflict
· Political voice, space, and equity given to community sector
· Access to knowledge, contacts, reciprocal networks, resources & funds to make choices and act effectively
· Engagement in debate, shaping the continuing debate, taking control & action / · Level of recycled materials
· Land-fill rates attributable to local business and the community
· Community, business and individuals awareness & consideration of triple bottom line impact of decisions
· Mobilisation of under-ulitised resources within a community – through resource sharing mechanisms
· Level of renewal energy use locally
· Biodiversity indices
· Level of restoration / creation of green infrastructure
· Level of community access to green spaces.
· Availability and uptake of sustainably sourced goods and services.
· Level of investment in ethical funds. / · Degree of linkage between community and outside
· Diversity of actors in the network: action focused, strategic, connectors
· Access to knowledge, contacts, and reciprocal networks
Actions / · Support responsible micro-enterprises and start-ups
· Support development of street markets
· Grow existing small and medium business
· Attract appropriate inward investment
· Support social enterprise and social entrepreneurs / · Enhance local sourcing by existing businesses and government schemes & programmes
· Link local people to local jobs
· Channel local consumer power to buy local
· Recycle ‘waste’ and produce local energy
· Maximise benefit take-up. / · Support enterprising behaviour.
· Skills matching & training
· Create intermediary financial institutions
· Create affordable community workspaces
· Create sustainable community-owned assets
· Physical regeneration (particularly retail zone)
· Improve business services & infrastructure
· Review and promote local policy instruments / · Assess state of play and room for manoeuvre
· Support for enterprising thinking / behaviour / approaches
· Support partnership facilitation & brokering skills
· Support legitimacy to community plans & visions
· Encourage local business to have larger positive impacts on the economy
· Support community lobbying for better services
· Develop local and regional networks of local and mainstream agency support / · Support community leaders & community organisations
· Community-based consultants supporting project delivery.
· Promote consensus building & planning tools
· Provide access to knowledge, technology, case studies, best practise, contacts and funds / · Domestic energy generation / energy saving
· Carbon-neutral development schemes
· Water recycling solutions.
· Community re-cycling schemes
· Support local access to knowledge of ethical investment funds
· Support local access to ethical consumer information. / · Supporting co-operative enterprise models
· Supporting development of responsible business support networks.
· Supporting community to community ethical trading initiatives
· Communities engaging in the global interdependence debate.
Tools & Resources / · Enterprise support models & basic business literacy
· Networking existing entrepreneurs
· Social enterprise support agencies (SEEM, SEL)
· Balanced scorecard
· Coaching based business support services e.g. BizFizz
· Business networks and mentoring / · Plugging the Leaks
· Social Audit, LM3
· Buy Local campaigns, directories and loyalty cards
· Local cash machines
· Intermediate labour markets
· Bulk utility purchases / · Enterprise in schools scheme - learning to lead
· Asset transfer models
· Carbon-neutral physical asset development
· High Street Renewal
· Street markets
· Intermediate Labour Markets
· Lending circles and credit unions
· Intermediate Labour market e.g. apprenticeships
· CDFI tools
· Timebanks / · Broker relationships between community and strategic partnerships
· Common Purpose round tables
· Irrigating inward investment
· LM3
· Participatory budgeting
· Consensus voting
· Business networks and mentoring / · Civic champions programme – the Civic Trust
· Passion finder workshop
· Coaching support
· Scarman, Unltd, Ashoka fellowships
· Scarman Can-do Citizen toolkits
· Planning for Real
· Community Planning Handbook
· Power, Citizenship and Democracy tools
· ActionAid Reflect
· Organisational Transformation tools
· Timebanks / · Eco- footprinting
· Balanced scorecard
· Environmental Impact Assessments
· Environmental management systems
· Ethical consumer guides
· Ethical investments
· Organisational eco-mapping
· Energy Supply companies
· Grid exchange
· Climate change democs / · Eco-footprinting
· Young co-operatives
· Just change trading
· Forestry standards Council and provenance schemes
· Unique Social enterprise network model
· www.oneworld.net