GSI Seminar - The Preston Model, Councillor Matthew Brown

Councillor Matthew Brown is Leader of Preston City Council in the north of England and Senior Fellow for the Promotion of Community Wealth Building in the UK at Democracy Collaborative. He has been widely credited as the driving force behind the ‘Preston Model’, an economic strategy at the city and county level that presents a comprehensive, interlinked approach to community wealth building as a practical and transformative alternative to austerity and disinvestment. First elected to represent the Tulketh ward in 2002, Councillor Matthew Brown subsequently took on portfolios that included community engagement and inclusion, social justice and policy initiatives, leading to his election in 2018 as Council Leader, and to a position as an advisor to the Labour Party’s Community Wealth Building Unit.

In this seminar, Matthew will speak to us about the philosophy of local economic development that Preston has pursued, and the results that have played out over the past decade.

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