Rsa Events

With a population of 2 million people and a strategic location at the heart of the UK, the national growth story must include a prosperous East Midlands.Join us at RSA House as we set out the recommendations in the final report of the East Midlands Inclusive Growth Commission, a bold, region-wide economic plan commissioned by Mayor Claire Ward and chaired by Andy Haldane.The East Midlands is a region full of opportunity, but beset by some deep challenges and a history of underinvestment. It is not a typical city region like many of the mayoral combined authorities that were created before it. The East Midlands can act as a model for achieving growth that reaches beyond the city centres and into regenerated industrial heartlands and rural places.At the heart of the Commission’s work is the Opportunity Escalator: a practical new toolkit to help people secure good work and progress to pay better and conditions, regardless of their starting point.From overcoming entrenched barriers such as transport and housing,