Leah Black

I am Chief Executive of WHALE Arts, a community arts hub in Wester Hailes, South West Edinburgh. We work across arts, wellbeing, placemaking and improving economic prospects. I chair or co-chair a range of community networks in SW Edinburgh. Edinburgh is working towards net zero and ending poverty by 2030 and I feel strongly that the third/charity sector can contribute greatly to this, however we need to take action around long-term thinking by creating long-term and less-restricted funding programmes. I'm interested how the Doughnut Economics principles could be applied to this, and really keen to talk to anyone also working in /thinking about this area.