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10.2 COMMUNITY WEALTH BUILDING

Dublin Fire Brigade have recently embraced the partnerships. In future activities Dublin Fire Brigade
Dublin City Council led Community Wealth Building will be exploring other avenues, such as procurement,
programme. Dublin faces many challenges that logistics, premises usage, training, fire prevention
impact on its resilience and prosperity in the future. and community risk reduction for ways in which it
Community Wealth Building provides a lens through can engage in a more meaningful way with our local
which to view this changing economic and social communities.
environment and to understand how Dublin City
Council can use its influence to shape and support
the city’s economy in the long term.

Community Wealth Building is a people-centred Strengthen the city
approach to local economic development, which council’s strategic
redirects wealth back into the local economy and capacity to act and
places control and benefits into the hands of local deliver
people. It is a collective assets of local economy
– social, intellectual, cultural, financial, etc. that Embed Develop a social value Build
a community owns or controls that enables the community framework for confidence by
community to care for each other and the natural wealth building
environment. Dublin City Council using pilots
within the and are-based
Adopting Community Wealth Building as an integral corporate
part of the City Council’s corporate strategy gives approach of action to
voice to the idea that the City’s wealth should be the city council demonstrate
shared. Through CWB Dublin City Council will use its
economic role to influence wealth flows around our the model
capital City in the best interest
of local communities. A strong Build
connection to the locality is a key understanding
driver for CWB.

Dublin Fire Brigade are adopting
the principles behind Community
Wealth Building in as many
aspects of its service deleivery as
possible, initially through targetted
recruitment drives in locations
identified by our community

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