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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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City & Hackney anchor network: interim learning report

Renaisi has been working with staff from across the City of London and Hackney’s anchor organisations to explore how the ideas of community wealth building might be applied…

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19 places respond to COVID-19

Reflections on how 19 of the place-based projects Renaisi works with have responded to COVID-19 by Lily O’Flynn and Lizzie Oxborrow.

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The role of anchor organisations in times of economic decline

The latest blog by Julia Slay, about Reniaisi’s work to develop an anchor collaborative in City & Hackney, and the role of anchors can play in recovery from…

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How can funding be used to support long-term, place-based systemic change?

Working with a steering group led by Save the Children, Renaisi will explore how funding can best be used to support long-term, place-based systemic change.

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What do people mean when they talk about place based change?

In this post, John explains how we group the work we do on place into five categories that help us understand different attitudes to change in society.

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Supporting community businesses at every step – what are we learning?

Senior Project Manager, Annabel Litchfield, shared early findings from the evaluation of three community business programmes in a recent blog for Power to Change. In the blog Annabel…

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.