Principles met

  • We will embrace innovation in how we work with local communities to drive positive change.
  • We will capture and ‘expand’ the experience and learning from individual projects and approaches in order to encourage broader application of co-operative principles within individual member Councils and across the Network.
  • As a membership organisation, we will make this statement of our principles operational by: • Co-operation among members: Our members work together to help each other implement our values, sharing experiences and learning. • Openness of membership: Full, Associate and Affiliate Membership is open to any qualifying Council, organisation or individual who shares our values and is committed to putting them into action. • Co-production of the Network’s work: Members help shape the Network’s work programme and the content of events and written products. • Action-focused: The network is a vehicle for helping councils translate co-operative values and principles into policy and practice. •Membership-based: The network is majority funded by modest membership subscriptions from its member Councils, Associates and Affiliates. •Non-party-political: Members share the belief that working co-operatively within and across communities holds the key to tackling today’s challenges.

In January 2022 the Council launched its first Clean Air Strategy (CAS) for the city of Birmingham. This innovative strategy seeks to improve air quality across the city and not just in areas where air pollution concentrations are traditionally high. The launch took place at Lea Forest School and was undertaken in conjunction with the first discreet project under the CAS; Air Quality Monitoring in Schools (AQMiS).

The AQMiS project seeks to raise awareness of air pollution amongst primary and secondary school students and teachers and by extension amongst parents. The aspiration is to inspire a culture of behavioural change both in terms of influencing the choice of mode of transit to school and also in wider lifestyle choices.

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