“I think we have some great foundations in Plymouth. e.g. how would Plymouth Trauma Informed Network inform the Doughnut? What measures would Environment Plymouth bring? What measures of equity would we use? What could we use to measure collaboration?”

“I’m a ‘let’s get on with it’ person… from the perspective of working with other officers at DCC, I think that the urgency of creating a Devon Doughnut is about making sure that current decisions don’t have a negative social or environmental impact. The challenge will be to square that with immediate and short term funding from central government and to use the Doughnut to help us Build Back Better.”

“I am feeling increasingly clear that it’s the civic voice / role this group is best placed to leverage – change really happens when there’s meaningful opportunities to participate… this is about how communities have a say in what kind of tourism they want to see in the bioregion (for example). So to my mind there’s something very balancing about it – not all civil society, not all local government, not all industry, but a combination of things. It’s a citizen voice that’s been missing.”