Our mission
We want to inspire an era of economic regeneration that's local, inclusive, and sustainable.
Our thinking
Local
Economic
Blueprint
Understanding our local economy and its potential for positive change.
Local
Entrepreneur
Forum
Unlocking an entrepreneurial, solution-focussed culture and a local movement of community supported enterprise.
HOW IT BEGAN
Our starting point was to create an economic blueprint.
Setting out, we understood we would need to do two things.
First, we would need to understand the current conditions of our local economy and identify the potential for regeneration and investment in positive change. This led to the Local Economic Blueprint.
Second, our work should create the conditions for new economic actors and new economic relationships to emerge and flourish, which led to the Local Entrepreneur Forum and the Reconomy Centre.
"The Purpose of our local economy is to maximise the happiness and wellbeing of our entire community - to create an abundance of opportunity to satisfy our needs, and use and distribute resources fairly, in a way that respects natural limits."
A brief history…
Much work led up to the establishement of the Reconomy Project Totnes, and much continues in parallel and in collaboration.
We emerged from the Business and Livelihoods group of Transition Town Totnes, in the wake of the publicity created by the Totnes Pound and the success of the Transition Streets Project.
For a timeline of some key moments in our history, including links to related reports and research, follow here.
Imagining the economy we do want
In the early days of Transition Town Totnes' Economics and Livelihoods Group, we spent time visioning a resilient, localised economy, that provided for a vibrant, healthy community. We drew on the initiatives and ideas that were emerging at the time, and identified those with potential to be the most transformational.
Want more?
We are keen to meet groups who are interested in our work.
We have run study visits for students of all ages, business groups, councillors, NGOs and community organisers.
We know how to make this stuff engaging, relevent and fun!
We can organise study visits to Totnes or run a workshop or give a talk at yours.