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Over 30 years experience
leveraging learning, insights, and evidence to support people and organisations working towards a more just future.
Place-based systems change specialists
Our unique approach brings together local insights with wider systemic context to provide robust evidence for change.
Designing with communities, not for them.
Our co-production approach centres lived expertise and is rooted in care.
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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
Director of Collaboration, LocalMotion
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
Director of learning and impact, Power to Change
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
Head of Community Investment, Sanctuary
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 Access Project
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
Head of Evaluation and Learning, Gingerbread
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
Money Advice Service
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
CEO Culham St Gabriel's Trust
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
Gabrielle Allen
Portfolio Manager at Impact on Urban Health