Public policy consultancy specialising in local governance, local economies and local public service delivery
Southwark, London
Joined June 2010
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The Armed Forces Covenant Toolkit - updated for 2025
The Toolkit is developed in collaboration with local authorities, and recognises their key role in delivering the Covenant.
@Sharedintel funded by FiMT s31949.pcdn.co/wp-content/up…
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📢📢 Great to be involved with and be able to support this brilliant piece of work. It has the potential to be truly transformational. Superb work by @BenYMLee @Sharedintel @NickPoole1 @CILIPinfo shaped with input from brilliant library colleagues #ACESupported @ace_national
Thanks @biblioluke @ace_national for funding us to work with @SharedIntel & @BenYMLee on the fantastic new #ComeRainOrShine trend report and toolkit. Thanks to the public library staff that contributed, as well as our national steering group cilip.org.uk/news/663884/New…
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🆕Make It Local: Local government's vital role in addressing economic inactivity.
The LGA commissioned @Sharedintel to research and review national and local opportunities in tacking economic inactivity both place-based and support for people local.gov.uk/publications/ma…
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Interesting article from @jessstud Back in 2020 @swannphil and I wrote a blog arguing for a TotalPlace #2 - sharedintelligence.net/time-… Hope you enjoyed the @LGAcomms / @Sharedintel report and think it offers some messages for how to take such an initiative forward.
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You can read our report as well as the helpful toolkit below
fim-trust.org/news-policy-it…
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Thank you to those who attended our event at #LGAConf23 on A Decade of the Covenant Report and thank you to our speakers on discussing the recommendations for local authorities @tommcbarnet
@DJAFothergill @LGAcomms
Tony Blake @Sharedintel
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Are you going to #LGAConf23?
Join us in Bournemouth on Tuesday 4thJuly, 6:30-7:30pm, at our fringe event, The Armed Forces Covenant: New insights into reducing disadvantage. Speakers include:
@tommcbarnet
@DJAFothergill @LGAcomms
John Shivas @DefenceHQ
Tony Blake @Sharedintel
Back in December, we held a launch event for our report with @Sharedintel - A Decade of the Covenant.
Find out more about the report, which includes practical guidance and recommendations on how to improve delivery of the Armed Forces Covenant: fim-trust.org/news-policy-it…
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ALT A panel of people on a stage, with one man standing up and speaking into a microphone. The slide behind them reads: A Decade of the Covenant: a review of deliver and impact of ten years of the Armed Forces Covenant
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Delighted to be here today presenting on A Decade of the Covenant @FiMTrust @VeteransNi @Sharedintel
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Learning from 20 years of place pilots
@Sharedintel was commissioned by the LGA to capture learning for policymakers in central and local government from eight place-based programmes that have been delivered over the last 20 years. local.gov.uk/publications/le…
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"Why #libraries matter for Britain: These cherished spaces will play a central role in regenerating the public realm" pleased to work with Ken Worpole on this for @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/culture/202… MT @CILIPinfo
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Public libraries are vital #communityinfrastructure for jobseekers.
+Jobseekers more likely to use libraries
+Libraries provide resources and help which increase employment outcomes
+Jobseekers say libraries help build confidence and
encourage progression
How do libraries help jobseekers? Our new research from @Sharedintel & @CambridgeEcon has found libraries play an essential role in improving employment outcomes.
Read the report ➡ artscouncil.org.uk/publicati…
What we found ⬇ (a thread)
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We're looking for Armed Forces families, reservists and veterans to complete @Sharedintel survey for @FiMTrust on their experience of disadvantage and use of the Armed Forces Covenant. Please share!
surveymonkey.co.uk/r/OCOC3su…
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We've just begun work on our new four year strategy as we gear up for our next funding bid to @ace_national to continue as the sector support organisation for #libraries @Sharedintel librariesconnected.org.uk/ne…
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Over the last 10 years, we've dedicated £116 mil to investing in places and leaving a lasting benefit for the people who live in those places.
Read our latest evaluation from @Sharedintel which will help us improve our approach in future.
Read the report buff.ly/3Iy2Bvu
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Really pleased to see the @Sharedintel work on Our Community Our Covenant featuring in @thewisdomofray 10 most significant @FiMTrust moments. It was an important moment for us too as the start of a stream of work on the Armed Forces Community. Now working on OCOC 3 @charlboulton
As we prepare to say farewell to our founding Chief Executive @thewisdomofray, he’s been reflecting on the 10 most significant moments in his 8 1/2 year tenure.
We’ll be revealing the top three on Friday, and you can read the others here ✍️⬇️
fim-trust.org/news-policy-it…
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Low income and financial vulnerability post-Covid.
With @charlboulton @KempkesC @pvshiftn we helped build this comparative Germany/France/UK picture. Loads of actionable detail about UK financial fragility, potential solutions, and how much is shared/different from other nations.
When big economic shocks arrive, the state steps in to protect families, as we’ve seen during the pandemic. But is there a broader role for innovation in boost financial resilience? That’s the focus of a new RF report today Shock Absorbers: resolutionfoundation.org/pub…
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On an issue like child obesity it is important to learn from “honourable failures” as well as from successes. Learn how to do this in practice at this webinar facilitated by @Sharedintel .
Join our free Childhood Obesity Trailblazer Programme webinar on 25 March 2-3pm.
“Test and learn” is an important principle of the programme. Hear how the Trailblazer councils are applying this principle in practice.
Email [email protected] to book local.gov.uk/childhood-obesi…
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Having examined budgets for about 35 years now I’m struck by how unsatisfactory this year’s is. There were so many pre-announcements that it’s hard to consider it as a whole. It’s particularly difficult to make sense of it from a local perspective. 1/3
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A classic piece of siloed and blinkered thinking. My latest piece for @lgcplus Skills white paper looks like an opportunity lost lgcplus.com/politics/lgc-bri…
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“Policy must...focus on developing what the late urbanist Jane Jacobs called “city-regions”...The aim must be to help the UK’s city-regions develop themselves, but London must be allowed to develop, too. The country will need all its growth engines”
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