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News digest

Club plans to extend working lives | Shops get a new lease of life | Making sense of LAAs | Public get say in Salford | Liverpool park perks up | Five things you may have missed.

Analysis

School leavers will be victims of our approach to employment | Why we need permanent solutions to economic shocks | Neil McInroy calls for a new wave of local economic activism | How sport can match the thrill of being in a gang.

Investigation

Mutual Housing: Britain’s wealth gap is growing – but community-owned and managed housing could offer a more equitable future | David Orr calls for an expansion of mutual housing in the UK | Community housing can help meet the challenge of Britain’s ageing population, argues Glyn Thomas | Mapping the sector.

Also in this issue

Head to head: Peter Lewis of LVSC and Allison Ogden-Newton of Social Enterprise London consider the perils of pairing up with private companies | International: Sydney and Montreal are still grappling with their Olympic legacy. What can London learn from them? | Professional development: Regeneration practitioners head off to university to top up their skills | The big picture: Why they do like to be beside the seaside in Nottingham | Significant others: Frances Crook from the Howard League | Neglected opportunities: It’s sink or swim time for Victorian baths.

Who reads New Start?

New Start launched in February 1999 as the first magazine to bring together all the partners involved in delivering sustainable communities.

Our readers work in local authorities, regional development agencies, registered social landlords, regeneration partnerships, government departments, universities, social enterprises, consultancies, environmental regeneration organisations, charities, the voluntary, community and private sector, think tanks, and umbrella organisations. They work across the spectrum of regeneration and sustainable communities – economic development, social inclusion, tackling worklessness, crime reduction.

Like New Start, our readers are intelligent, ambitious and committed to creating sustainable communities. Almost two thirds of our readers are chief executives or directors: New Start’s unique content is depended upon by people who are determined to make communities better.

New Start’s values

New Start’s values are at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is to help our readers make a difference in the communities they regenerate. And every year staff nominate three charities to support, all of which are involved in regeneration.