Acknowledgements
The APPG would like to thank all parliamentarians who participated in the inquiry:
Paul Howell (co-chair), Conservative MP for Sedgefield
Dame Diana Johnson DBE (co-chair), Labour MP for Kingston upon Hull North
Jack Brereton, Conservative MP for Stoke-on-Trent South Mary Kelly Foy, Labour MP for the City of Durham
Lord Glasman, Labour peer
Jo Gideon, Conservative MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central
Emma Hardy, Labour MP for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle Baroness Armstrong of Hilltop, Labour peer
Sharon Hodgson, Labour MP for Washington and Sunderland West Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE, Conservative Peer
Ian Levy, Conservative MP for Blyth Valley
Andrew Lewer, Conservative MP for Northampton South Andy McDonald, Labour MP for Middlesbrough
Dr Kieran Mullan, Conservative MP for Crewe and Nantwich Lia Nici, Conservative MP for Great Grimsby
Baroness Thornhill MBE, Liberal Democrat peer Mick Whitley, Labour MP for Birkenhead
The APPG would like to thank the following individuals and organisations who submitted evidence to the inquiry:
Ada, the National College for Digital Skills Arches Local
Brinnington Big Local
Centre for Inequality and Levelling Up Charitable Journalism Project Chatterley Whitfield Friends
Church of England Citizens Advice Ashfield
City-REDI, University of Birmingham Coalfields Regeneration Trust Community Land Trust Network Culture Commons
Dr James Morrison, Robert Gordon University FaithAction
Fields in Trust
Food, Farming and Countryside Commission Impact Investing Institute
Intelligent Health LifeLine Projects Macroscope London
Professor Philip McCann, University of Manchester NHSA
Northern Housing Consortium NPC
People’s Health Trust
Professor Andy Pike, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University
Plunkett Foundation Power to Change
Professor Gurch Randhawa, University of Bedfordshire Renaisi
Richmond Group of Charities Royal Town Planning Institute Social Mobility Commission
South East Councils
South East Strategic Leaders
The Centre for Education and Youth The Centre for Social Justice
The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute UK Youth
ukactive
UK in a Changing Europe University of Central Lancashire University of Manchester Volunteering Matters
Professor Katharine Willis, University of Plymouth
The APPG would like to thank witnesses to the inquiry:
Angie Buss, Chair, Revoelution
Anna Bradley-Dorman, Resident and Community Activist, Ramsey Million Big Local Barbara Slasor, Community Development Lead, Gaunless Gateway Big Local
Ben Franklin, Director of Research and Policy, Centre for Progressive Policy Ben Lee, Director, Shared Intelligence
Billy Dasein, Chair, East Marsh United
Gavin Parker, Professor of Planning Studies, University of Reading Graeme Duncan, Chief Executive, Right to Succeed
Henry Kippin, Chief Executive, North of Tyne Combined Authority
Jim Burt, Executive Director of Programmes, National Academy for Social Prescribing John Angell, Committee Member, Dover Big Local
Mark Gamsu, Professor in the School of Health and Community Studies, Leeds Beckett University
Peter Tyler, Professor in Urban and Regional Economics, University of Cambridge
Rebecca Woods, Reece Pocklington and Billy Robinson, award-winning community activists and co-founders of youth mental health campaign group WE WILL
Sarah Pearson, Professor of Social Policy Research, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University
Simon Parkinson, Chief Executive, Workers’ Educational Association
Toby Lloyd, housing and regeneration policy expert and Chair of the 2020-21 No Place Left Behind Commission
Tom Lake, Director of Strategy and Policy, Fair4All Finance
Trisha Bennett, Community Development Co-ordinator, Whitley Big Local
The APPG would also like to thank:
Simon Kaye and Isobel Conn, Reform Toby Lloyd and Rose Grayston, On Place
As well as those who participated in the inquiry’s workshops and roundtables, and additional policy experts who shared their insights with our Members and Secretariat.