Please note that Local Government Leadership's development work is now being undertaken within the Local Governement Group (LG Group www.local.gov.uk).

You can still find relevant details on continuing programmes here whilst we work on transferring the information to the LG Group website. If you are interested we'd be happy to talk to you about our previous work, please contact Joe Simpson in the first instance on joe.simpson@local.gov.uk or Rebecca Cox on rebecca.cox@local.gov.uk

The future of politics

Civic Pride

Politics is the lifeblood of local government - it’s what connects councils to their communities. At their best politicians know and understand their communities intimately, create aspirations out of local desires, draw compelling pictures of the future and bring people together to achieve great things.

Today’s local leaders are expected to shape the place where their local residents live and work. The Civic Pride initiative is designed to encourage the sort of confident, capable and visionary local leadership that will create thriving and prosperous communities.

Civic Pride has also been developed to address the imbalance between the development opportunities available to politicians over the years in comparison to officers in local government.

Each programme in Civic Pride promotes and supports local politicians at each stage of their political lives, helping to reinvigorate local democracy and encourage more people to get involved, creating a greater sense of civic pride in our communities. This work will help to shift politicians’ thinking on leadership so they can fundamentally transform their communities for the better.

We work closely with a number of expert special advisers on the Civic Pride programmes - to read more about them please click here.

For more information on Civic Pride, contact Charlotte Eisenhart on 0207 187 7386 or
charlotte.eisenhart [@] localleadership.gov.uk.