The Communities in Charge campaign is a coalition of local people, community groups, businesses and national organisations calling for communities to be put directly in charge of the Government’s post-Brexit fund for economic regeneration, the Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF).
In this report, we present new analysis of places where there is the greatest threat of job losses as a result of the Covid crisis.
We set out how locally rooted community organisations play a unique role in tackling local unemployment. They are direct providers of jobs and volunteering opportunities in areas facing some of the greatest challenges; they provide tailored and sensitive employment support for their community; and they take a strategic role in supporting local economic development.
Finally, we set out why communities should be put directly in charge of the Shared Prosperity Fund. To address the jobs crisis and help level up the country, decisions about the SPF must be made accountable to communities themselves.
We are focused on the Shared Prosperity Fund, but our argument applies across a broad range of opportunities including the Devolution and Recovery White Paper, the administration of the Towns Fund and other government efforts to regenerate local economies.