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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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Tools & Resources

Renaisi’s Guide to Systems Change: Activity 4 – Shifting Mental Models

Find the Guide to Systems Change here, including examples of this work from our partner organisations. This guide to systemic change sets out five activities that we have…

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Tools & Resources

Funding for place-based systems change: Navigating the current climate

The Place-based Systems Change Community of Practice includes a range of actors driving systems change in places, including housing associations, local authorities, philanthropic funders, researchers and charities. The…

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Tools & Resources

Launching our guide to systems change

A guide to systemic change informed by a 12-month inquiry into what it takes working alongside with many partners.

Community members with gardening tools in a Peabody community garden.

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Place-Based Evaluation

Thamesmead 5-year evaluation: Reflecting on immersive research

At the start of 2019, Arup and The Social Innovation Partnership embarked on a five-year evaluation of Peabody's work in Thamesmead, seeking to test and challenge their regeneration…

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Tools & Resources

Responding to the common challenges of systems change

As part of our inquiry into what it takes to change a system, we developed and tested a three-part hypothesis as a framework for collaboration with charity and…

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Tools & Resources

Co-design and co-production to support funding for place-based systems change

Themes from a Community discussion featuring speakers from Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Connected Futures Burnley Partnership.

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.