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What 72 hours actually buys

Members describe what changes in a response when the decision is made locally and the money moves in three days rather than three weeks.

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A member organisation's small office during an alert: staff on phones, a whiteboard with union names and figures. Shows local decision-making as work, not ceremony.

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19 June 20266 min readHub Secretariat

Members describe what changes in a response when the decision is made locally and the money moves in three days rather than three weeks.

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Content is written in the Hub’s voice: clear and accessible, confident but grounded, collective in nature. Outcomes are credited to programmes, members and collective systems rather than to the Hub alone.

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What 72 hours actually buys

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