We work alongside community organisations, hubs and grassroots initiatives navigating moments of change.

This might include:

• community listening and engagement

• designing participatory processes and gatherings

• place-based strategy and sensemaking

• organisational reflection and development

• supporting community-led projects and initiatives

Our role is often to help organisations connect more deeply with their communities and design approaches that strengthen local agency and participation.

Many businesses want to contribute positively to the places they are part of, but are unsure how to move beyond traditional corporate social responsibility.

We work with businesses to explore how their organisation can play a meaningful role in the wellbeing of their local place.

This might include:

• social and community impact strategy

• understanding local community needs

• designing employee engagement and community initiatives

• facilitation and team learning days

• creating practical community projects together

The aim is to help businesses embed themselves more deeply in the places they operate and contribute to thriving local communities.

We also work with funders exploring how to support place-based and community-led change more effectively.

Our role often includes:

• designing place-based funding programmes

• acting as a learning partner to funding initiatives

• translating community experience into programme design

• supporting networks and peer learning between funded places

• capturing learning from complex programmes

Because our work is rooted in communities, we bring both practical experience and systems insight into these partnerships.

Many national organisations are working on important social and environmental issues, but translating these ideas into real places can be difficult.

Policies, campaigns and research often circulate at national level without clear pathways into communities.

We work with national organisations to help their work connect with the places it is intended to serve.

This might include:

• translating national ideas into place-based approaches

• helping campaigns reach communities beyond policy and academic circles

• designing community engagement and participation processes

• connecting national organisations with grassroots practitioners

• supporting learning between local initiatives and national programmes

Our role is often to act as a bridge between national ambition and local reality.

Because our work is rooted in communities and connected through the Living Places Network, we can help national organisations understand how ideas and initiatives can travel meaningfully into place.

We regularly speak at events, gatherings and conferences, sharing insights from our work in communities and exploring what it means to rebuild power, possibility and ecological care in the places we call home.

From national events to grassroots festivals and community gatherings, we design talks and workshops that help people expand their thinking and connect big challenges to the places they live.

We bring practical stories from the ground, creative facilitation methods, and an honest perspective on what it takes to build community-led change.

This might include:

• Keynote talks and panels

• Interactive workshops and participatory sessions

• Conference facilitation and event design

• Community conversations and public events

If you’re organising an event and think our perspective could contribute, we’d love to hear from you.