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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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Four themes emerge in first City and Hackney anchors network workshop

The first meeting of the City and Hackney anchor network brought together representatives of large institutions from the borough to explore the possible economic and social benefits of…

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What we learnt from managing Big Local reps for 7 years

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.

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Place-informed versus place-based

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…

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What is an ‘anchor’ organisation?

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…

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The Citizenship and Integration Initiative: can we achieve more together than we can as individual organisations?

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…

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Learning together: testing the potential for community wealth building with anchor organisations in the City of London and Hackney

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…

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.