Community Wealth Building CPP priorities
Argyll and Bute Council · 6 June 2025
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Community Wealth Building priorities 6th June 2025 Takki Sulaiman CPP CWB Steering Group member and Argyll and Bute TSI CEO
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Community Wealth Building “Community wealth building is a new people-centred approach to local economic development, which redirects wealth back into the local economy, and places control and benefits into the hands of local people” - CLES (The Centre for Local Economic Strategies) 5 pillars • Progressive procurement of goods and services • Fair employment and just labour markets • Plural ownership of the economy • Making financial power work for local places • Socially productive use of land and property
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Overview of CPP CWB steering group activity Two rounds of ACPG meetings – May and August 2024 Local CWB action group in Helensburgh and Lomond •Decision to tie in with the place planning work Shared ownership informal best practice group – four meetings •Spawned local energy community benefits and ownership conversations CPP CWB workshop in September 2024 Steering group meetings November 2024 – April 2025 February 2025 steering group in person workshop •Prioritisation of recommendations and action plan •Explore linkages and opportunities with other strategies •Produce charter June 2025 legislation and bill response (May 2025) Not wait for legislation CWB best practice hubs – EDAS announcement and Improvement Service Hub
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Prioritising the recommendations
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Community Wealth Building – priorities • Review how the actions in the Economic Action Plan aligns with CWB principles but perhaps the CWB action plan process contained in the Bill supersedes this? • CPP Charter – can you sign up to this through your governance processes? Is it clear enough? • All Pillar 1 (Spending) recommendations prioritised • Pillar 4 (Finance) priority on mapping community benefits – uniformity in approach? • All Land and Property recommendations (Pillar 5) reviewed as ‘hard’ and a lower focus for now apart from continuing activity
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Community Wealth Building – Pillar 1 Procurement Recommendation Priority Ease of Implementation Commentary Establish a CPP procurement working group 1 Easy A top priority - who and when? - Working with organisational procurement teams. Clear guidance needed to Heads of Procurement meetings with regard to alignment with CWB priorities. Ask specific questions. - Note template charter from Stirling Council. - Timing of the legislation and associated activity prior to publication for the legislation. - Case study: scope to review barriers for local contractors. - Requirement for an overarching CPP CWB Charter. Build collective market intelligence 1 Easy What does this look like and how would we share the findings to capacity build local providers? - Data on local suppliers is captured by local heads of function and GDPR issues to consider. - Opportunity to support supplier capacity (register on PCS) for shared services. Publish a collective procurement pipeline 1 Medium When, who and how? Question to all CPP partners in sharing forward procurement plans for 2025/26. CPP meet the buyer events 1 Medium Events scheduled with Council - capture progress and evaluate next steps? Partnership with Scotland Excel? NHS? - Joint MTB events with all partners - capture all contracts of various scale. Not necessarily in person MTB events; videos, social media, etc. Develop procurement training for suppliers 1 Medium Supplier training framework in development Aligns with MTB events such as Supplier Development Programme and other local training provision as appropriate.
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Community Wealth Building priorities 6th June 2025 Appendix and resources
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Argyll and Bute recommendations Spending Establish a CPP procurement working group, Build collective market intelligence, Publish a collective procurement pipeline, CPP meet the buyer events, Develop procurement training for suppliers Workforce Work towards a Living Wage Place Develop a Pathways into work programme Argyll & Bute Employment Charter Employment Charter support. Inclusive ownership Identify ownership opportunities in growth sectors, Review of co- operative business support, Peer support networks, Brokering supply chain opportunities Finance Mapping the alternative financial infrastructure Mapping community benefits Develop a local finance initiative proposal. Land & property Affordable Workspace Strategy Vacant & derelict land Rationalisation of the public estate Convene a Local Landowners Forum BC1: Building a more co-operative food & tourism economy BC2: Building community ownership of the energy transition
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CPP Recommendations and Models of Opportunity • CWB intrinsic to economic strategy • Decide on correct avenues to deliver CWB across Argyll and Bute • Development of CWB time limited group(s) CPP recommendations • Building greater employee ownership in Argyll and Bute • Building community and shared ownership of the energy transition Models of Opportunity