Community and place-based action Archives

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How can we cultivate healthier and happier communities?

11 Aug 2022 Ella Firebrace, Riley Thorold

Our personal health and wellbeing are not always in our control, how can we shape what it means to lead a healthier and happier life in our future?

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2020s crises and change: a guide to the terrain

17 Jan 2022 Ian Burbidge

Ian Burbidge assesses how we’ll need to navigate social change in light of the pandemic further exposing structural inequalities.

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Building a network for place-based learning

6 Dec 2021 Tom Kenyon

Tom Kenyon on the importance of sharing knowledge and good practice on place-based and ecosystemic learning.

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Supporting our communities: Time to move from false competition to needs-based investment

29 Nov 2021 Ian Burbidge

Ian Burbidge on the importance of learning from previous area-based funding initiatives to address inequality across the UK.

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Place: the missing key for unlocking a circular economy

24 Nov 2021 Josie Warden

Josie Warden on why we need to focus on and resource place-based change to enable a regenerative and circular economy.

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Regenerative Futures: From sustaining to thriving together

6 Oct 2021 Josie Warden

This positioning paper explores ways in which taking a regenerative approach can help address the complex challenges of today.

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The road to resilience: how community financial services can help level-up Britain

21 Jun 2021

The road to resilience: how community financial services can help level-up Britain

Animations

A framework for change

24 May 2021

RSA chief executive Matthew Taylor shows how core human needs and motivations interact with social forces to shape and drive the dynamics of change.

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Key workers in the capital: one year in London

19 Apr 2021

Our findings show key workers need support to allow them to live comfortably among the communities they serve.

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Crisis, communities, change: demands for an equitable recovery

12 Apr 2021

Over the winter of 2020-2021, we undertook a community inquiry to listen to stories of resilience, challenge and imagination arising from the pandemic.