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Helen Power

England, London
As seen in: Wiley Online Library, Emergency Medicine Journal, Taylor & Francis Online, The Irish Times, Financial News, LabourList, CLES, New Local, The MJ
Journalist, corporate writer. Ex Times, Telegraph, CityAM on staff; freelance for FT, WSJ, Irish Times + rest. "Why Deals Fail" Economist Books.”
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Communities First

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By Helen Power
| New Local
June 16, 2026 By Rt Hon Steve Reed MP Over the last decade, community power has become increasingly important to discussions about the future of public services, local government and democratic renewal. Ahead of his keynote speech at Stronger Things 2026, The Rt Hon Steve Reed MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, has shared this essay setting out his own thinking on the intellectual foundations of community power and the implications for government.
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Making participatory budgeting work: lessons from local government

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By Helen Power
| New Local
Participatory budgeting (PB) is rightly celebrated as a way to give communities influence over funding decisions — from neighbourhood grants and service priorities to whole area budgets. When it works best, though, it is part of something much bigger: an evolution in how decision-making is shared between councils and communities.
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We’re recruiting: Senior Researchers

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By Helen Power
| CLES
CLES is the national organisation for local economies and the UK centre for excellence on community wealth building. From our base in Manchester, we work with people across the UK and internationally to create better economies for people, places and the planet. In particular, we support local areas to develop new solutions to the economic and social justice challenges we face at the current time.
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