Wednesday 12 March 2014

COUP#4-' Own it? But, who is going to do it all?'


Giles Piercy - Director, Locality Matters & Chair, White City Enterprise (WCE)Locality Matters is a new business which has been set up to help Local Authorities devolve power, budgets and control to communities. 

This session looked at:

  • How statutory bodies can work together to pool and share budgets
  • How mutuals and social enterprises can undertake aspects of service delivery
  • Opportunities and concerns from the 'right to challenge'

Giles has also been heavily involved with White City Enterprise (WCE) which is a community run social enterprise set up to take on the delivery of public services within a deprived community in West London (Hammersmith and Fulham), with a population of 5,000 residents and public spend of over £50m every year.

A copy of his presentation from the session can be found below:


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