wigan borough - community wealth building partnership

Community Wealth Building aims to place control of our local economy in the hands of our local people, businesses, and communities. It's about how we work, along with our partners and businesses, to use our budget for goods and services, recruitment, land, and property in ways which reorganise the local economy to retain wealth in the borough and ensure benefits and inclusive opportunities for local people.

The public sector in Wigan borough spends millions of pounds each year. Collaborating with the borough’s other ‘anchor institutions’ means we can have an even more powerful impact locally. Wigan’s anchor institutions, such as the college, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group, have come together and created a partnership which will drive forward this approach.