Look at the whole journey
Understanding cause and effect is crucial for any process of change. We help you understand the starting point, the process, and the change.
Place-based systems change
Your place-based systems change work is addressing complex social issues. We’re here to help you understand the change you’re making.
Evaluation and learning adapted to the interconnected nature of social change
We’ve seen many attempts to assess the impact of place-based systems change programmes using traditional evaluation methods. But these methods often fail to capture the impact as it is experienced by communities, and the nuances of this impact over time. Our approaches aim to address these challenges
Balancing rigour and critical learning
We combine developmental and realist approaches such as contribution analysis to assess the causal links between a programme and the outcomes.
Designed to capture emerging change
Enabling you to demonstrate both micro and macro level change while incorporating learning to support it in real time.
Pride in Place: How we can help
As a welcome renewed government focus on place, Pride in Place offers a real opportunity to improve people’s local areas. With over 30 years of experience of working alongside communities and in places across the UK, we know what it takes to do it right. We can help you deliver Pride in Place in your local area, and can work with you to tailor our services to your needs.
Our approach centers people’s lived experience, and is designed to involve those traditionally excluded from decision-making processes to ensure their voices are heard. We take the time to build trust and invest in the relationships that build the conditions for lasting change. We can support you to co-design and co-produce governance structures like Neighbourhood Boards, help you disseminate funding to grassroots initiatives and communities on a hyperlocal level through our fiscal hosting service, and support you in understanding what does and doesn’t work to make sure you can make the most of Pride in Place.
Our approach centers people’s lived experience, and is designed to involve those traditionally excluded from decision-making processes to ensure their voices are heard. We take the time to build trust and invest in the relationships that build the conditions for lasting change. We can support you to co-design and co-produce governance structures like Neighbourhood Boards, help you disseminate funding to grassroots initiatives and communities on a hyperlocal level through our fiscal hosting service, and support you in understanding what does and doesn’t work to make sure you can make the most of Pride in Place.
Building on over 30 years of experience in place
Place-based working is an increasingly popular approach to social change, but it has characterised most of our work over decades. Explore our history of place-based working:
Renaisi founded and starts work through Dalston's City Challenge
1993–1998
1994–2003
Managing Single Regeneration Budget across East London
Supporting Hackney Council through Invest in Hackney
1998–2010
2001–2011
Running the EC1 New Deal for Communities in South Islington
Developing DCLG Renewal Academy, a learning community of regeneration practitioners
2003–2007
2010
The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP) is founded
Renaisi establishes an Impact & Evaluation team to support social sector organisations nationally
Working deeply in and with communities in Hackney, Lambeth and Southwark
2010–2017
2011–2017
Part of the consortium that established Big Local in 2011
Bringing together charity and private sector partners through Our Parklife
2014–2020
2014–2020
Delivers DCLG Neighbourhood Planning & Capacity Building Evaluation on community-led change
Renaisi is learning partner for DCMS and National Lottery Community Fund's Place Based Social Action programme.
TSIP co-designs The Giving Lab, a participatory grant model in Southwark
2018–2024
2020–ongoing
Shaping place-based evaluation methods, systems change work, community-led research and design
Renaisi Innovation is established, bringing TSIP and Renaisi together
2024
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Place Knowledge Hub
Find the tools and resources to support place-based work in our dedicated resource library for place-based change.
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Join our Place community of practice
Share experiences with around 200 place-based practitioners, funders, and researchers during our free bi-monthly Community of Practice sessions.
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Learning and
Evaluation
Alongside partners, we work to improve outcomes for people, places and systems. We look not just at activities and outcomes, but also at the conditions, relationships, power dynamics and resources that shape them.
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Service design &
Co-production
Through co-design and co-production, we bring the right people into the room, especially those whose voices are often missing from decision-making, to shape change together.
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