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At the half-way point in the Big Local programme, Michael Toyer reflects on what we’ve learnt about community-led change from managing the local reps for 7 years.

There is justifiable interest among trusts, foundations, charities and service delivery organisations in ‘place-based’ working and in encouraging local ownership of solutions when looking at social problems. But is place-based thinking or working the only valid use of place in policy making or delivery of services?

Renaisi Associate Julia Slay explains the term ‘anchor organisation’ and shares some examples of how anchors in the US have used their economic power to benefit the local communities that surround them. Anchors are typically – though not exclusively – not for profit organisations that are based in a city or town and are unlikely

Renaisi worked with Close-Up Research to bring our ethnographic research to life and communicate our findings to IntoUniversity using film.

In this short series of blogs we briefly introduce three of our biggest loves and three of our biggest worries, alternating between them. We’re reflecting critically on ourselves and our own work as much as anybody else’s: the worries we present are things that have concerned us about our own projects, as much as other organisations’.

We sat down with one of our surveyors (soon to become a trained Community Researcher), Marcus Tayebwa, to hear a little bit about his experience working on the project, why he thinks it’s important for community members to be involved in local interventions from design to implementation, and how he thinks institutions can avoid falling into the ‘saviour dynamic’ with the people they support.

Learning from two years of partnership working to increase social integration in London. The Citizenship and Integration Initiative (CII) is a pooled fund of £1 million to support work on citizenship and integration in London. The Initiative brought together independent foundations and civil society organisations with the Mayor of London to advance shared goals on

City Bridge Trust has commissioned Renaisi to conduct the evaluation of their Responding to the Resilience Risk pilot project.

We’re creating an action learning network to explore how large not-for-profit organisations can come together to use their institutional and economic power to achieve positive social change in the City of London and Hackney.

Today we launch our new website, which brings together all the elements of Renaisi’s updated brand and finishes several months of work to update who we are, without losing who we were. I want to share how we got here as I think it says something more about the last two years, which is the