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Orkney Community Wealth Building Action Plan consultation

The Orkney Community Planning Partnership has published its Draft Orkney Community Wealth Building (CWB) Action Plan for public consultation and is inviting comments and submissions from individuals, community groups, businesses, and stakeholders across the county.

The Action Plan sets out a bold new approach to local economic development, aiming to ensure that the wealth generated in Orkney is retained and benefits the people who live here. It builds on Orkney’s long tradition of community action and local enterprise, outlining practical actions under five key pillars:

1. Fair Employment and Just Labour Markets: Strategies to improve local employment opportunities, promote fair work practices, and reduce the gender pay gap.

2. Spending: Initiatives to use public spending to deliver community benefits, support local businesses, and build resilient supply chain

3. Financial Power: Plans to increase local investment flows, harness public sector spending, and support community-led financial initiatives.

4. Socially Just Use of Land and Property: Approaches to maximize community benefits from local land and property assets.

5. Inclusive Ownership: Support for the development and growth of locally owned enterprises that generate community wealth.

We want your help to make this plan better.

Please answer as few or as many of the questions below as you want.

What is your name?

What is your email address?

How familiar are you with the concept of Community Wealth Building (CWB)?

Do you believe the plan addresses the key challenges facing Orkney?

Pillar One: Fair Employment and Just Labour Markets

How important do you think it is for local employers to adopt fair work practices, such as paying the Real Living Wage?

What measures do you think could effectively reduce the gender pay gap in Orkney?

Pillar Two: Spending

How can public sector procurement (spending) be better utilized to support local businesses?

How should the community benefits funds which developers make available be best used to help local people?

Pillar Three: Making Financial Power Work for Local Places

What types of local investment would you like to see more of in Orkney and How can we encourage more local investment from both public and private sectors?

Pillar Four: Socially Just Use of Land and Property

How can derelict land and empty properties be better utilized in Orkney? Are there specific properties or lands you think should be prioritized for community ownership?

Pillar Five: Inclusive Ownership

How can we support the development of different business ownership models, such as cooperatives and social enterprises?

Community Engagement

How can the Orkney Community Planning Partnership best involve people with the development and delivery of this CWB Action Plan?

And finally...

What parts of the CWB Action Plan can be improved?

If you have any other comments, please send an email to [email protected].