Maitland - Let's build Community Wealth & Local Industry

New economic and development opportunities are possible for Maitland. Instead of watching the value and benefits from these opportunities be extracted out of the region to large corporates as private profit… You can keep control in the hands of local people and direct the value and benefits to the local area. You can create jobs and industries that are anchored in your region. You can generate broad-based wealth, prosperity and wellbeing. The people and tools you need exist within your community.

We invite local people, community groups, organisations, businesses and local government from Maitland & Surrounds to join a public meeting to:

• Hear about local economic development approaches that ‘invest in, with and for' the residents of Maitland
  
  • Community wealth building: increase asset ownership, anchor jobs locally, ensure local economic stability
    
  • Locally scaled industry: new technology and approaches that enable local and decentralised industries and opportunities
    
  • Local wellbeing: strengthen communities and achieve key social and environmental goals
    
• Participate in a discussion on how to get started
  
• Meet Maitland locals interested in community wealth building, locally scaled and owned industries and local wellbeing 

EVENT DETAILS
When: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Time: 12pm - 1pm (AEST)
Where: Online via Zoom. The zoom link will be emailed the day before the meeting.
Cost: Free 

“When families possess assets — valuable skills, social networks, a home, some savings, an ownership stake in a business — they enjoy greater resilience, and are better able to withstand occasional shocks like unemployment or illness. They can plan for their future, send a child to tertiary education, feel secure in retirement. A job may start or stop. It is assets, of various kinds, that yield greater stability and security. As this is true of families, it is also true of communities. Jobs may be drawn into a community, but then leave without warning. And if attracting jobs means degrading community assets — through pollution, low-wage jobs, or the loss of tax income through excessive tax breaks — a seeming gain can in fact represent a net loss. If traditional economic development tends to be about attracting industry to a community, building wealth is instead about using under-utilized local assets to make a community more vibrant. It’s about developing assets in such a way that the wealth stays local. And the aim is helping families and communities control their own economic destiny.” Ted Howard, Resilience 

For any questions email Meaghan@ethicalfields.com
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