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We help communities, funders, charities and government use learning, participation, co-production and place-based practice to share power, transform places, change systems, and build fairer futures.
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We help communities, funders, charities and government use learning, participation, co-production and place-based practice to share power, transform places, change systems, and build fairer futures.
Speak to the team
Our trusted partners across the UK
Bridge the gap between people places and power
We help communities, funders, charities and government use learning, participation, co-production and place-based practice to share power, transform places, change systems, and build fairer futures.
We don't just help measure change. We help you create it.
Social problems are too often addressed at the surface, without changing the systems that create them or involving the people most affected.
We help our partners to work differently: using learning, evidence, co-production and participation to strengthen community agency, connect local insight with institutional power, and create the conditions for lasting change across places, services and systems.
Place-based systems change practice
For over 30 years, we have worked alongside local places to understand how deep change happens. We help partners build the relationships, learning and local conditions needed for communities to shape the systems around them.
Practical tools for delivering Pride in Place locally
Participation, co-production,
evaluation & learning
We combine research, evaluation and co-production so people closest to social issues shape the questions, evidence and decisions.
Fiscal hosting
We help community-led groups and grassroots organisations access funding that may otherwise be out of reach, providing practical infrastructure, financial stewardship and organisational support.
Connecting people, evidence and ideas to strengthen place-based practice
We share what we learn and convene others so practice can travel, adapt and spread across places, sectors and institutions.
30+ years supporting learning, co-production and community participation for social change.
Partners supported to learn, adapt and act together
Active in over 100 places across England and Wales today
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Renaisi Innovation's experience helps the LocalMotion funder collaborative to draw on insight and experience from a wide range of place-based change programmes. They offer connection between work at the national and local levels, as well as crucial critical challenge as a learning partner.
Kathleen Kelly
It was a competitive selection process, but we had worked with Renaisi Innovation in the past and had a good experience. With their evaluation of the More than a Pub programme, they helped us make structural changes to the programme design, and demonstrated to the Board that there was value in continuing to fund it. Renaisi Innovation played an active role in the programme as an evaluator.
Stephen Miller
For over a decade, we’ve been refining our approach to community development and investment. It was important to introduce an external review of our work and evaluation through a place-based systems change lens.
Renaisi Innovation's expertise and perspective proved invaluable, offering fresh discovery, constructive challenge, and a reassuring endorsement that our approach is delivering significant social impact. Importantly, it highlighted the need to evolve our evaluation methods so we can better demonstrate impact at a place level.
Marie-Claire Wattison
The team showed the best understanding of the project aims and particularly our focus on uncovering insights that would help our organisation improve. They were evidently keen to work collaboratively and add value.
Tamara Baleanu
The combination of Renaisi Innovation's research approach with their service delivery experience really makes for a credible and influential voice to shape our own approach and show how we are applying learning to our practice. I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve worked together to achieve.
Hannah Woods
Renaisi Innovation helped the Money Advice Service better understand the funding sector. Since our merger the knowledge gained from our work with Renaisi Innovation has helped to inform and shape how the new organisation engages with the funding sector.
Steve Stillwell
It was a pleasure to work with the team. They enabled us to think differently about grant making, helping us to think creatively through the process of co-constructing a fund in a new context. Their insights were often challenging, and ensured we considered a range of perspectives and approached grant making as inclusively as possible. As well as equipping us to set up a new fund, many of the insights gained have impacted on our other grant making practices.
Dr Kathryn Wright
One of the biggest challenges in participatory funding is shifting the power imbalance between funders and communities. Funders often aim to empower communities but may forget that people in these communities already hold significant expertise and power.
Working with Renaisi Innovation and investing in The Giving Lab has helped us as a funder recognise and value the skills and leadership that already exist in the communities we work in. This is why we’re exploring how to bring this expertise into our funding decision-making process. In turn, we believe this will help us make a bigger impact in reducing health inequalities in Lambeth and Southwark