Fellow's Profile
Afolarin Samuel Remi-Akinwale
Fellow's Profile
Afolarin Samuel Remi-Akinwale
Building shared prosperity: empowering communities through community banking and digital democracy
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Exploring how communities and young people can share power, ownership and wealth.
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2026
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Contact
Biography
I am the Chief Executive of Young Manchester, a youth-led organisation supporting over 200 groups working with children and young people across the city.
My Fellowship explores participatory governance, community wealth building and collective investment models in Brazil, Estonia and Spain. I am particularly interested in learning from communities that have successfully shared power, enabled meaningful participation and created new forms of collective ownership.
Throughout my career, I have seen young people repeatedly consulted but rarely trusted with real power over resources and investment. My motivation for this project is for young people and communities to build and govern wealth collectively. I aim to bring back practical ideas that can help shape the Future Fund in Manchester and further the mainstreaming of equitable community wealth models by actively sharing and documenting my learnings.
Disclaimer
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
