Community Wealth Building

Local wealth that belongs to everyone

Generating, circulating and retaining wealth in local and regional economies helps communities thrive

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The dashboard

Dimensions of community wealth

Where traditional wealth management watches portfolios, cmmnwealth tracks the real indicators of a place people want to live, work, and belong to.

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70%
Access to green space
Over 100 million Americans lack a park within a 10-minute walk. People living more than 1km from green space have nearly 50% higher odds of stress than those within 300m.

Trust for Public Land / NRPA

◇+40
79%
Local spend retained
In Preston, anchor institutions doubled local procurement from 39% to 79% in five years, rerouting £74m back into the city and creating 4,500 jobs.

CLES / Preston City Council (2013–2017)

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50+
Co-ops in the city
More than 50 co-operative and mutual enterprises operate within the City of Sydney local area alone, part of 2,040+ across Australia employing 69,800 people.

City of Sydney CWB Discussion Paper, 2021 / Business Council for Co-operatives and Mutuals

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500k acres
Community land stewardship
In Scotland, community land trusts collectively own over 500,000 acres — home to more than 25,000 residents.

Community Land Scotland / Wikipedia CLT entry

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53%
Local multiplier effect
£10 spent at a local food business generates £25 for the local economy vs £14 at a supermarket chain. Independent retailers recirculate 53% of revenue locally vs 14% for chains.

New Economics Foundation UK / Civic Economics

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54%
Civic participation
Between 2022–23, 54% of Americans (137 million people) helped neighbours with tasks like errands, childcare or emergencies — a statistically significant rise from prior years.

AmeriCorps Civic Life in America Survey (2023)

choose local wealth

Tools to design and implement measures that create prosperity for local people and places.

Keeping wealth local

Local businesses, cooperatives, and public institutions reinvest locally. Instead of extracting returns and funneling them to shareholders and conglomerates, local efforts circulate wealth within the community.

Ownership voices

Spreading economic power more broadly through worker cooperatives, community land trusts, mutual aid organisations, and employee ownership gives more people more of a stake and a say in the assets and enterprises that shape their lives.

Local engines

Expanding local procurement through hospitals, schools, housing associations and other anchor institutions creates practical levers for opportunity.

Fair work

Good jobs with living wages, worker voice, and stable contracts, create security. Local work models can preserve flexibility without concentrating power in distant platforms.

Stewardship of land and property

Community land trusts, public-private partnerships and local stewardship models keep critical assets working for the benefit of the community.

Ethical finance

Extractive lending practices can be a drain. Purpose-built financial rails can support community development finance for local businesses and initiatives, putting capital to work for blended returns.

Keep more value in the places that create it

Communities can shape how wealth is created

Community wealth building can be transformative. It strengthens the local impact of spending, ownership, work and finance, helping communities realise the benefits now and for future generations.

From local procurement to local investment, cmmnwealth provides a backbone that supports communities in designing practical tools for keeping capital rooted in place.

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