Volunteers’ Week offers a great chance to share what we’ve learnt about how to support social action in communities through The Place Based Social Action (PBSA) programme.
A Renaisi evaluation of how heritage organisations used COVID-19 emergency funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund provides valuable insight into how heritage was affected by the crisis, and the challenges they still face.
The next meeting of the place-based systemic change community of practice takes place on the 27th May 2021.
In this webinar, Liz Weaver of the Tamarack Institute talks with John Hitchin, Emily Sun, and Jo Blundell of Project Place about the resurging importance of place in the United Kingdom.
The Civic Hub is a space in Hackney that brings people together to collaborate on local challenges and opportunities by putting communities and lived experiences in the lead.
In partnership with Black Thrive and The McPin Foundation, we worked with our team of community researchers to explore the perspectives of Black people with lived experience of long-term conditions.
Insight into our work measuring the impact Peabody’s placemaking project has had on local life, including residents’ experience of living in the area, Thamesmead’s landscape, its culture and arts offering, community involvement and cohesion and regeneration activities more broadly.
In this blog post John Hitchin, CEO, explains how our thinking on place has evolved in the last two years through our experiences of working with places and organisations, evaluating place-based programmes, and doing the hard-yards of place-based facilitation. At the same time, there has been a growing interest from the government in place through the ‘Levelling Up’ agenda.
In the second meeting of the place-based systemic change community of practice, participants heard from Graeme Duncan (right2Succeed) and Claire Reindorp (Peabody) about building and working in teams of people doing place-based work.
In this blog, Shaun and Luke talk about the emergence of a new cohort of highly political and deeply intellectual young people across our cities – a new urban intelligentsia – which the social sector ignores at its peril.
