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Browse our library of tools and resources to support your place-based work. Curious to learn more? We’re always here to chat.

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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#iwill Fund Learning Hub: Increasing Youth Social Action in Place

The ‘Increasing Youth Social Action in Place’ report makes recommendations for funders to work in ‘place-informed’ ways to embed youth social action sustainably. The report was produced by…

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Emma Hardie: The value of being place-informed: what I’ve learnt from an organisation in the middle

A guest blog by Civil Service Fast Streamer Emma Hardie reflecting on her placement at Renaisi. As part of the Civil Service Fast Stream I had the opportunity…

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Power to Change Community Business Fund Evaluation

Renaisi was commissioned to identify and describe the types of community businesses supported by Power to Change, their impact and how the model of community business drives that…

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Guest blog, Emma Hardie: Learning from an organisation ‘in the middle’.

Civil Service Fast Streamer, Emma Hardie’s reflections on her six-month secondment at Renaisi.

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Renaisi will support two flagship government initiatives to address community issues

Renaisi is delighted to be supporting two flagship government programmes that seek to give local people more opportunity to be involved in finding and delivering solutions to local…

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Community business in place: a working paper

This short working paper is about community businesses, the places that they exist in and how those two things interact. It aims to explore evidence about their relationship…

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.