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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.

The place-based change community of practice

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Making ‘systems change’ language more inclusive

How do we make systems change language helpful and inclusive rather than academic and inaccessible? We are testing Plain English ways of describing systems change.

Community of practice event. Understanding & approaching systems change

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What do we mean by systems change?

In the last place-based community of practice, we unpicked how people approach place-based systems change and the language they use to describe it to help anyone trying to…

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Pioneering place-based employment support for young people

Reflections on how we will help seven partnerships on their journey to pioneering localised employment support for young people.

Community of practice - October 2022. 2 years of learning

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Learning by listening

In the Save the Children funded research, as in the Community of Practice, we explored the perspective of both place-based organisations and national foundations and charities working in…

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Systems change: all things to all people?

Associate Director of Place and Systemic Change, Beth Stout describes four ways organisations and places can start to explore systems change.

Targeting injustice through place-based work

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Tackling the root causes of injustice

Social enterprise leaders Camille Lesforis and Dominic Ellison shared experiences and learning on targeting the root causes of injustice and how it relates to place-based work.

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.