During a moment at work one week in which my chief executive caught up with me in the car park, he suggested we move from social productivity to social action. I spent a great deal of time musing about what this would mean for Kirklees and how it would manifest itself.

Kirklees is not a single place, but rather a myriad of towns and villages that reflect the current chasms in our society right now; rich and destitute, rural and urban, well-educated and NEET, white and culturally diverse – I could go on. If ever there was a borough that replicated England in all its diversity, then Kirklees is it.