Place Knowledge Hub

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.

Community of practice event June 22. Targeting injustice through place-based work

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Targeting injustice through place-based work

On 30 June 2022 the place-based community of practice meeting will explore targeting the root causes of injustice in a place. With guest speakers.

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Power, accountability, and leadership in place-based change

Three guest speakers joined us at the last place-based community of practice to discuss their experiences of participatory decision-making in Swansea and Barking & Dagenham.

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Evaluating the impact of community-owned pubs

Renaisi led the evaluation of the More than a Pub programme (MTAP). Read the findings of the second phase of the evaluation.

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Workshop Evaluating Place-Based Change

Lily O’Flynn, Renaisi’s Senior Project Manager for place-based evaluations, drew on insight from the Australian government’s framework for place-based evaluation, and shared learning from Power to Change’s Empowering…

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Evaluating place-based change workshop

Attend evaluating place-based change online event to learn how to assess the difference you are making through your place-based programme.

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A day in the life of a Place Programme Manager

Find out what it’s like to work at Renaisi as Jenny McConnel, shares her experience of being a Place Programme Manager.

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.