Place Matters is a partnership committed to accelerating the impact of place-based change through learning.
Welcome
Through our work and the work of our partners we gather and share experience and learning of those working to achieve place-based change. We share that knowledge through this platform and through the learning events we hold throughout the year. Please join our learning community
News Flash
We are delighted to announce that Place Matters is one of the first recipients of the National Lottery Community Fund's new UK Fund. We have been awarded £700,000 over 5 years.
Place Matters Chair Dame Julia Cleverdon said
"Thanks to National Lottery players this significant grant means that Place Matters will be able to support many more of the most disadvantaged communities across the UK in their efforts to create thriving places. This funding will enable us to develop the skills within communities to drive change, create networks of support to accelerate progress in places and join the voices of communities across the UK to influence wider change. For decades we have seen growing inequality within and between our communities and this funding will help put power into the hands of those with a long-term commitment to local change."
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Programmes
place incubator
Launching place-based programmes
The Incubator programme delivers intensive action based learning to multi-sector teams starting the process of delivering place-based change.
It will support teams to plan their journey of change, building consensus around how they will tackle the change together and developing shared ways of working to enable effective collaboration.
communities of practice
Peer-based learning programmes
Communities of practice are peer individuals and groups going through a similar journey of change.
They will share their journey to both inform and support each other, working with experienced learning partners to help embed learning to improve impact.
We will also create communities of practitioners from people and organisations with specific roles and expertise e.g. funders, learning partners.
learning
events
Workshops and webinars on key topics
We will hold workshops with practitioners seeking to focus on specific aspects of practice, drawing on UK and international expertise and hold general webinars for practitioners to access.
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See events below for scheduled events
About us
We are a partnership of organisations who deliver and enable place-based change. We have come together with a shared commitment to use our experience and knowhow to accelerating the practice and impact of change led by and with communities.
Our ambition is to build the practice of place-based working so all communities that experience inequality of opportunity caused by entrenched and complex issues can access the help they need to make change happen.
Contact
Reading
Rank Foundation Spring Newsletter
Read the article we wrote with Liz Weaver from the Tamarack Institute about reducing poverty through place-based change in Canada and learnings for the UK.
More than Infrastructure
Read the Place Matters 2021 report on how to enable place based working.
New Local make a compelling case for transferring power into the hands of our communities.
A challenging critique by ICS on involving communities in Levelling up
Jennie Winhall and Charles Leadbetter provide some great tools for designing better systems
A great article from our partners Tamarack on the role of Field Catalysts.
A masterclass in how to tell a story about a place
Tamarack Institute's extraordinary story about how they contributed to tackling poverty in Canada
Dartington Service Design Lab reflect on the integration of forms of evidence to create a better platform for learning
Key reflections from one of UK's leading funders of place-based work on their learning
Reflections from Power to Change on how to build thriving community businesses in places.
Sport England have recently funded innovative place-based work through local delivery pilots and this is a really insightful reflection on the learning
A comprehensive guide to building sustainable place-based collaborations with plenty of examples