About Us
We are a Community Benefit Society based in Birmingham, working to build stronger, fairer and more resilient local economies.
We believe economic development works best when it is rooted in place, shaped by communities and designed to keep more wealth and opportunity within the places that create it.
Our work combines practical programme delivery with research, learning and building partnerships. We help people access better employment and career pathways, support community enterprises and locally rooted organisations, and connect communities with employers and institutions.
Based at the Moseley Exchange, we work with communities and partners across Birmingham.
Our Mission
Loconomy exists to build stronger local economies that enable people and communities experiencing disadvantage to secure better livelihoods and long-term resilience.
We do this by supporting access to good jobs and career pathways, growing community enterprises and small businesses, and strengthening local spending power to help move people out of poverty.
Our place-based approach connects schools, communities, businesses and institutions to create practical routes into work and enterprise, aligning local people, organisations and investment around shared economic outcomes.
Stronger local economies. Better opportunities. More resilient communities.
Our Team
Our work is delivered by a team of staff, associates, Board members and partners with experience across employment and skills, community engagement, enterprise, regeneration, research and local economic development.
Our associate model enables us to bring together the right combination of local knowledge, professional experience and specialist skills for each programme.
Loconomy’s Chief Executive, Ifor Jones, has extensive experience in public service delivery, community regeneration and economic justice.
Membership
As a Community Benefit Society, Loconomy exists entirely for the benefit of the community.
Our growing membership includes individuals and community-based organisations from across Birmingham. Members help shape our organisation, contribute local knowledge and experience, and create opportunities for collaboration.
Individuals
Individual membership is open to anyone aged 16 or over who supports Loconomy’s mission, strategic aims and values and has an interest in community economic development.
Organisations
Organisational membership is open to constituted not-for-profit organisations and public sector institutions. It is particularly relevant to organisations involved in community economic development, community wealth building, social enterprise and inclusive economic growth.