We will be presenting findings and recommendations for how to support Wales’ foundational economy, with opportunity for comment and debate. Report Launch – A Better Balance: Business Support for the…
Rethinking Wales: Business after Covid
…at the same time ensuring that the way we do business contributes to wellbeing, strong communities, and flourishing the foundational economy. Attendees will also have the opportunity to submit their…
IWA Analysis: Spring Budget short on solutions for working people
…from ambulance workers, to teachers, these are key planks of the foundational economy. Whilst the rate of inflation is forecast to fall from its heights of 2022, it will remain…
‘The Elsa Effect’: Representation and the Early Years
…the Early Years (broadly the 0-7 age range in a child’s life) and that experiences in this period are foundational and formative. Many disciplines and studies – such as Harvard’s…
Volume Up The Pumps
…find small firms in Wales are out-competed for work by those over the border. These are good, skilled, secure jobs in the foundational economy that Wales should nurture. Cost of…
Restanza in Blaenau: New Foundational Politics
…inform the foundational politics of place? Foundational thinking involves much more than claims about the importance of essential services provided by the welfare state and utilities. The foundational approach to…
Introducing: Ukraine: What can we do?
…a good year for bringing community rights to the fore of public discourse and awareness in Wales. Almost six months after the release of Harry Thompson’s foundational report Our Land:…
Placemaking, or Life and Death (and Rebirth?) of a Great Welsh Town
…space linking the town to the local supermarket, an integrated active travel hub, incubation spaces for new foundational economy businesses and a high design café linking Pontypool Park with the…
Usage and Abusage: A Bad Case of Hiraeth
…its tragic losses but because of them. It is a pact with the presence of absence.’ Declarations like this forget that these foundational events of modern Welsh history aren’t just…