In this webinar Jay Tompt shares insights and learnings around how we can increase economic self-reliance and resilience within our local economy. There are proven ways of supporting economic change through a community wealth building approach which can help us tackle some of our big issues: social care provision and local inequalities for starters.

Jay is co-founder of Local Spark in Torbay which works with members of all communities to start up and support businesses for good, build productive networks of enterprises and non-profit organisations, and engage large anchor institutions to unlock their transformative potential. Formerly a Silicon Valley ‘green business’ entrepreneur, he is currently a lecturer on Schumacher College’s masters programme in Regenerative Economics.