What is LocalCheck?

1. What is LocalCheck? Helping people to recognise and value their local heritage so they can sustain the distinctive resources of the locality to pass on to future generations Exploring all those things we can choose to do which sustain the locality – local heritage, local produce, local traders, local transport, local celebrations as well as those things that reach us from around the world

2. How to sustain the local Sustaining the locality involves: Boosting the local economy esp. valuing local distinctive products, people and places Boosting the local community esp. including young people in local decision-making Boosting the local environment as the basis of all esp. changing consumer lifestyle to use resources efficiently and protect the environment And valuing and sustaining the global

3. What is LocalCheck? The LocalCheck approach is a way of exploring, valuing, promoting and sustaining the local. A Pledge from a local group or managers of a community building to help people explore, value, promote and sustain the local. An Example of how they do it in terms of Welcoming, Building, Enriching, Interpreting, Travelling, Feeding, Trading and Celebrating. A Champion to lead the promotion and set an example in terms of local and global citizenship.

4. Local A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), Collected Poems

5. 3 Ps Products – People – Prosperity Places Planet Profit Producers Citizens Consumers Dimensions Local - Global Small – Large Particular - Standard Past – Possible Old - Young

6. Local - Global, Small-Large, Past - Possible

7. Multum in Parvo • Much in little, much in local • Look back to look forward • Think local and global, and act locally and globally • Living today with tomorrow in mind • See the familiar as particular • Celebrate the everyday • Tread lightly on the earth So what are the examples?

8. Tread lightly on the earth

9. Some Local Themes • Welcoming – Step in one and all • Building – Bringing underground overground • Enriching – Green grows the locality • Interpreting – Remember for the future • Traveling – Travel lightly on the earth • Feeding – Put a face to your food • Trading – Loyalty to the locality • Celebrating – Respect the roots Take one of the 8 cards

10. Some Local Themes As a local citizen how do you explore, value, promote and sustain the local? How can a community building (church, chapel, school, village/town hall, pub, restaurant or shop) promote and sustain the local? How can young people be helped to explore and value the local?

11. You and your locality – some group activities • Draw a memory map of your locality • Mark on your map (of Rutland) the quietest, prettiest, noisiest, grottiest places • Take photographs of local features to build a collage map • Use articles or adverts in the local paper to build a collage map. Use the 8 themes • Find the exact position where old photographs were taken and take photos to spot the changes. Match Then and Now pictures • Photograph or draw an A to Z of As to Zs in the locality • Interview and tape record the memories of older local people and the hopes of younger local people

12. Localisation - Globalisation Products Services Information People • Controlled or free trade? • Varied or standardised character? • High or low quality? • High or low cost? Producers Consumers Local movement or Global movement

13. Localisation - Globalisation Valuing and sustaining our own local: cannot now be done in isolation as we live in a global village. So we must also enable other people in other places to value and sustain their own local: Localism is not anti-globalism People must be as socially and environmentally responsible as they hope businesses will be. • Community • Marketplace • Workplace • Environment • Community • Marketplace • Workplace • Environment

14. Particular - Standard Local Character Common Ground A to Z Rules for Local Distinctiveness Parish Maps

15. Past - Possible Reminiscence work with older local people Age Exchange www. British Library/BBC Millennium Oral History Project www.

16. Past - Possible Reminiscence work with older local people We used to go and collect our milk in a can every day from Bolton's Farm on the main road in Barrowden. Milk was delivered to some people from Church Farm. They used a horse and pony trap. They put the churns on and filled your cans from them. The butcher was near to the bakehouse, although there was a slaughterhouse in between the two. Maurice Wade Rutland Voices, Judith Spelman, Tempus Oral Hisory Series, 2000 How and Why have things changed? – Local and Global/ Past and Possible

17. Local Trading Markets WI Farmers Box Schemes Vegetables, fruit Cooperatives Village shops – Barrowden – VIRSA www.virsa.org Pubs Local Exchange and Trading Schemes Local Loyalty Cards Wedge Card

18. Local Trading Farm Shops Brocklebys, Melton Mowbray www.brocklebys.co.uk Micro-breweries, Bakeries Grainstore Brewery Convenience stores Working with local producers to supply distinctively local products and services

19. Global Trading “Tescopoly” “Lonely Planetise” “Oiled society” The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep. John Maynard Keynes, 1919 Trade flow 8% of world GDP in 1910 and 20% of GDP in 2000 Now free trade with Japan, China, India etc New workers – 260M from E Europe, 760M from China etc

20. Local Celebrating A to Z of an locality Parish Maps Common Ground www. Festivals May Day, Apple Day Community spaces Pocket Parks, Northamptonshire Community Orchard, Stamford

21. Government promoting Local Local Government Association – People and Places campaign

22. Local Citizenship Community Consultation events Oakham Town Partnership Planning for Real Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation Village/Town participative democracy Parish Plans Sustainable Communities Bill, 2007 Campaign www.localworks.org From local to global: Creating sustainable communities Local young people having a voice Youth Councils

23. Global Citizenship Oakham Fair Trade Town Town Twinning Responsible international tourism Support for UN Millennium Goals Make Poverty History – Debt Relief Support and respect for migrant workers Welcoming tourists and visitors