Across the UK, a growing wave of place-based partnerships is bringing together business anchor organisations with traditional public and voluntary sector anchor organisations to tackle local challenges and build stronger, fairer economies.

These collaborations are taking many forms - from local anchor networks involving businesses and chambers of commerce, to national programmes like Business in the Community’s Pride of Place Programme and the Living Wage Places campaign. Together, they are showing how coordinated action across sectors can unlock deeper impact for local communities.

This webinar - hosted by the Health Anchors Learning Network (HALN) and featuring Business in the Community (BITC) - will explore the opportunities of working with businesses as part of local anchor partnerships to support long-term, positive change.

We’ll hear about Bradford’s Pride of Place programme, supported by BITC, and then open up a roundtable conversation with practitioners and experts to unpack what it really takes to make this work - and the key enablers and challenges along the way.

Who should attend?

This webinar is for anyone interested in place-based, public-private collaboration to tackle local challenges and create thriving local communities, particularly:

• Local authority staff and anchor network facilitators

• Business leaders working locally

• NHS anchor leads 

• VCSE and community partners

• Policymakers