Tottenham / Durham Learning Exchange: Building understanding, solidarity and cooperation across difference

This pamphlet showcases the findings and proposals emerging from a unique learning exchange between community organisations in Durham and Tottenham. In both Tottenham and Durham, community groups are advancing their own plans to repurpose and manage social infrastructure to support place- based economic and social development that meets local needs and desires. While they do so in different contexts, the Learning Exchange demonstrates that they share common purpose, values and challenges. This pamphlet calls for a profound strengthening of place-based grassroots alliances alongside inter-place networks and coalitions to facilitate understanding and solidarity across difference, impacting regional development policy debates. It makes seven calls to action which we hope will be taken up by communities, policy-makers, universities and funders in various ways. This is a continued piece of work from UCL's Pro-Provost Regional Communities (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/about/leadership/organisation/president-provosts-team/pro-provost-regional-communities).