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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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Tools & Resources

Not Everything That Changes a Place is Place-Based Change

In recent years, place-based change has become a buzzword in the social sector. As a result, it’s misused to describe any type of intervention that happens in a…

A mural charting the history of Birkenhead.

5 Min

Place-Based Evaluation

Embedding then evolving place-based change

Lessons about building place-based collective impact from North Birkenhead Cradle to Career.

2 young people, one black woman, one white guy looking at a sheet of paper.

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Archive

Learning partnership to keep children & young people safe in Manchester

Our interim report sets out learning from steering group that are collectively responding to safety challenges young people in Manchester face.

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Archive

What is the difference between place-based and systems change approaches?

Kezia Jackson-Harman explains the difference, similarities and overlaps of place-based and systems change approaches.

Place based Systems Change Evaluation Model

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Archive

Modelling place-based & systems change evaluation

Senior Project Manager, Jonathan Price shares feedback on our new model for evaluating long-term, place-based and systems change programmes.

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Archive

The solution to the challenge of evaluating place-based systems change

Today Renaisi launches a new evaluation model that solves the challenges of evaluating change in places and systems for funders, commissioners, and practitioners.

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.