Stories

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.
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Blog
The conditions for place-based success : Lessons learnt from a lifetime of community centred change
Place Matters Co-Director, Emily Sun, hosted Dame Julia and David Sanderson on 19th June 2024. This is a summary of the key topics and themes discussed.
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Blog
Place-based working : More than the sum of its parts through building fields of practice
Exploring how field building could be a solution to straddling the need for community centred place-based work and influencing systems change.
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News
Announcement: Place Matters Commissioned for Esmée Fairbairn Place-Led Research Project
We’re excited to announce that Esmée Fairbairn Foundation has commissioned Place Matters to research the impact of three key projects supported through its place-led funding, which began in 2016.
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Framework : Funder Role Continuum
Our Funder Role Continuum is a developing framework that encourages funders to consider what they want the role and influence of their funding to be.
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How to fund systems change by Black Thrive Lambeth Employment Project
The Black Thrive Lambeth Employment Project explored how funding can be better leveraged to improve outcomes for Black people with long-term conditions with a perspective that funding holds power with systems change work.
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Place-Based Funders Action Learning by Place Matters
In April 2023, Place Matters held a roundtable of place-based funders to discuss the position of funding organisations in the sector. This paper outlines the key themes from this discussion.
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