Seven videos from our 2026 Robert Owen Day event on Transforming a Declining High Street.

June 6, 2026 by David Smith

Seven short videos from our 2026 Robert Owen Day event on Transforming a Declining High Street. Includes the Centre for Local Economies presentation, three grassroots case studies. Plus a Co-operative Perspective on Urban Renewal and UK Government’s Pride in Place Programme – at video 7/7, by Chrissy Meleady, CEO Sheffield Coop Development Group. At Video 2/7 Cheryl Barrott explains the origins of  ‘Community Wealth Building’ and ‘doubling the coop economy’.

https://tinyurl.com/OwenDay2026

About David Smith

A lifelong co-operative and community activist at all levels of the movement, including the Co-op Group Main Board. Public service includes Government Food Adviser; UK Healthcare Regulator. David founded the first Community Law Centre in Wales and directed the first EC funded Wales Anti-Poverty Programme: pioneering co-operative & place making community initiatives. https://www.svcymru.org/files/2021-03/david-smith-a-founders-tale.pdf Robert Owen Memorial Museum Trustee. Director, Sheffield Co-op Development Group. Graduate Ruskin College, Oxford and UC Cardiff + PGCE, MA (European Human Resource Management) Keele; Professional Food & Management qualifications. Former Lecturer, Gwent Tertiary College.
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