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Our library for place-based systems change

Explore our collection of resources, ideas, and stories from our decades of experience in place-based systems change work.

Inquiry: How to sustain place-based change

The question of how we can sustain place-based systems change has been one that many of us have been grappling with for years. In recent years, as we've moved to slightly longer funding cycles, people leading this work have faced real challenge when seeking to embed the changes they've made beyond the initial funding they received.

With support from partners including Esmée Fairbairn, Homewards, Turn2us, Pathway Fund and others, we set out to explore how we can change this.

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Funding place-based systemic change: Grapevine case study

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire case study about a local organisation evolution approach to place based systems change. The funding place-based systemic change project includes a series of case…

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Funders invited to test practical tools for place-based systemic change

John Hitchin describes the scenarios and issues that move people to begin to work differentally and invites funders to test some practical tools to help places and organisations…

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Funding place-based systemic change: Centre 33 case study

Centre 33 case study about a local organisation evolution approach to place based systems change. The funding place-based systemic change project includes a series of case studies from…

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Funding place-based systemic change: West London Zone

West London Zone case study about a ‘whole place’ approach to place based systems change. The funding place-based systemic change project includes a series of case studies from…

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Get involved in the place-based systemic change project

Find out how you can get involved in a community of places and organisations thinking and working differently to achieve systemic social change.

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Kruger report: positive proposals must be backed by action to change broken systems

Renaisi welcomes the very positive proposals in Danny Kruger MP’s report Levelling Up Our Communities. The wide-ranging proposals to strengthen civil society, with improved infrastructure, more funding and…

Inquiries & Campaigns

Our research collections and campaigns address structural challenges, providing insights to help partners navigate complexity and influence policy changes.

How to sustain place-based systems change

Building on over 30 years of working with over 100+ places across the UK to fund, deliver, and evidence place-based work, we explore what it takes to sustain these efforts.

What does it take to change a system?

A guide designed to support funders and practitioners to understand how to approach systems change and their role in it.

Funding for place based systems change

Chaired by Save the Children UK, we brought charities and funders together to explore how to best manage funds to support long-term, place-based systemic change.