
Doubling the size of the community and co-operative economy: Learning from a decade of transformation in Liverpool City Region
In this next essay, Patrick Hurley MP explores how, over the last decade, community business in the Liverpool City Region has grown from a handful of isolated initiatives into a vibrant ecosystem - moving from promise to transformation, and revitalising local places and economies. He sets out how building on this learning nationally could help grow the co-operative and mutual sector, for lasting social and economic change.