Wellbeing Economy
This discussion paper is designed for civil servant or council workers interested in exploring (and perhaps confused by) the wide variety of alternative models, tools and data sources available.
Manifesto for Mutual Aid
This manifesto makes the case for the wider changes needed to foster mutual aid as part of a process of community care and organisation. It describes mutual aid practices that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic and identifies recommendations for policy,...
Thriving Places Index
“The Thriving Places Index helps to answer three important questions. Are we creating the right local conditions for people to thrive? Are we doing that equitably, so everyone can thrive, and sustainably, so current and future generations can thrive? Created...
Community Asset Transfers
Community Asset Transfers (CATs) have the potential to deliver significant social and economic benefits. But the evidence on benefits delivered by CATs to date is very limited. This report by Power to Change provides guidance for public authorities and community...
Designing the Future
Dark Matters Lab work on what is needed to manifest transformations to our food, housing, land, material and nature systems towards a future of mutual thriving. They analyse the shifts required in the underlying ‘dark matter’ – monetary, economic, governance,...
Doughnut Economics Tools
The Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) offers a range of open access tools that anyone can use to turn Doughnut Economics from a radical idea into transformative action, from exploratory workshops to activities, lesson plans, methodologies, and business toolkits. Link...
Co-Designing Civic Technologies
A co-design approach from NLAB4CIT designed by Open Lab Athens for the co-production of a living lab for civic technologies.
Co-Designing Value Exchange Models
‘Decentralize Community’ is a tool from NLAB4CIT designed by Open Lab Athens aiming to support communities and initiatives who want to develop alternative and horizontal value exchange systems by using blockchain technologies. It includes a role play game and a sequence of...
Care in the workplace (blog)
This blog from Rising Arts Agency describes how they have embedded practices of care. What does it mean to be a caring workplace? https://www.rising.org.uk/blog/caring-work-cultures
Understanding Investors
A guide to investors and how to approach them. Designed for creative businesses and produced by Gill Wildman for Watershed.