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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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News
A fond farewell to our founding Chair, Dame Julia Cleverdon
Celebrating Dame Julia’s New Role at The National Lottery Community Fund and her Legacy with Place Matters.
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Blog
Scaling Deep for Wider Impact : Reach Foundation and Minderoo Foundation
Reflections on a study visit with Reach Foundation and Minderoo Foundation
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Case Study
Lessons on UK Field Building from Farming the Future
Bonnie Hewson, Director at Farming the Future, is a leading thinker in UK philanthropy and place-based change work. We caught up with her to discuss the journey, aims and challenges further.
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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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How do we build trust and belief in the effectiveness of place-based change?
Place Matters Co-Director Jo Blundell reflects on the questions raised during our recent stewardship group discussion on Evidence and Impact in place-based change work.
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Data Democracy in Place-based Change
Exploring how data can be used inclusively with community participation. Written by Dominic Oldfield and Lela Kogbara.
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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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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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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.
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Learning from the Power to Change Empowering Places programme for community business
Power to Change Empowering Places : Learning about working as a local system to support community businesses
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Working in partnership with communities
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.
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Case Study
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.
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How to create thriving partnerships between the community business sector and the NHS
The group decided to focus on the relationship between social enterprise and the NHS for several reasons.
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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.
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Centring equity and place-based approaches in systemic transformation
In this paper we explore what equity means in place-based change and systems transformation.You can als
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How data shapes our understanding of racial justice
“We need a more open, honest and humble exploration that involves the community.” Lela Kogbara. Director Global Black Thrive
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Blog
Beyond collaboration in place-based leadership
These are reflections following a webinar that Place Matters held on July 13 2022.
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Blog
Why did we create Place Matters?
In 2020 Place Matters commissioned a piece of research into the practice of making changes happen in places.
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