About Us

Local Works is a coalition of over 100 national organisations campaigning to promote the use of the radical and exciting new Sustainable Communities Act.

“I regard the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 as one of the most important pieces of legislation to be enacted in the past decade.”
Decentralisation Minister, Greg Clark MP, to Parliament on 16th November 2010

Find out how the Sustainable Communities Act works here

CONTACT US
Steve Shaw, National Co-ordinator
email: steve@localworks.org
phone: 020 7278 4443
address: Local Works, c/o Unlock Democracy, 6 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF

Local Works history
Local Works was the coalition campaign for the Sustainable Communities Bill, originally set up by the new economics foundation. The campaign was successful when the Bill became law - the Sustainable Communities Act - in October 2007. Since then Local Works, as a part of Unlock Democracy, has been promoting the Act and urging people to get involved and government to implement it properly.

Note: the Sustainable Communities Act currently applies to England only

Local Works funding
Local Works is funded by a number of coalition organisations as well as the following grant making bodies:
The Network for Social Change
The Big Lottery Fund
Polden-Puckham
The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
The City Bridge Trust
The Marmot Trust