Welcome to our stories page - here you’ll find a collection of insights and learnings from place-based work, alongside our team and partners’ thoughts and reflections.
How can community businesses build citizenship in our communities?
Place Matters invited Jon Alexander, author of Citizens, to explore his ideas around a new model of Citizenship in the context of community-based organisations and social businesses.
Galvanising community action through a Citizen Assembly
How Black Thrive and Catalyst4Change brought people together in Birmingham to start building a movement to change mental health and well-being for local Black people.
Sharing power with communities can be difficult due to relationship management and conflict. In this article we share some examples of where nurturing partnerships has been done successfully.
The power of culture: Learning about working as a local system to support community businesses
This study was developed from a Community of Practice event with the 6 Catalyst organisations that made up Power to Change Empowering Places programme.
Tackling child poverty with place-based communities
Place Matters held a Collaborative Action Summit on Child Poverty, convening a diverse group of place-based leaders, funders, community organisations, residents, and policymakers from across the UK, Canada and Australia.
