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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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How We’re Navigating Systems Change

Sarah Rojvithee, a Researcher in our Place and Systems Team reflects on a cross-team get together to share perspectives on our hypothesis for systems change.

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The Children’s Society take part in our systems change inquiry

We joined The Children’s Society’s team to discuss our inquiry What does it take to change a system? We learnt how they are approaching systems change, what they…

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How might we change the funder-practitioner power imbalance?

Our last place-based systems change community meeting was an online event on the theme of funder-practitioner power dynamics. Jenny Oppenheimer, Philanthropy Partnerships Lead at Lankelly Chase Foundation, helped…

Critical issues for place-based systemic change practitioners

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Critical issues for place-based systemic change

Highlights, ambitions and questions that came out of Renaisi’s first in-person, place-based systems change community meeting. On the 26th April 2023 Renaisi hosted the first in-person, full-day Community…

Two young people, wearing hats one holding a white dog, and a man. They're all standing in front of an outdoor stage,

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What we’ve learnt about enabling social action in socially and economically challenging times

Read the end of phase 2 learning and evaluation report the Place Based Social Action programme.

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What does the cost-of-living crisis mean for place-based work?

How is the cost-of-living crisis is affecting place-based systems change, and how to maintain a long-term systemic view during an ongoing crisis?

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.