A Wellbeing future, today

Centre for Thriving Places is a place-based not-for-profit consultancy offering strategic support, research, training and evidence-based measurement tools that put the interests and wellbeing of people, place and planet centre stage.

The time is now to switch the economic compass from consumption and growth toward wellbeing. This is no longer niche or aspirational – it is practised by governments, communities and organisations across the world. 

When fair and sustainable wellbeing is the collective goal, against which we measure success across policy and action, the outcome is a thriving and resilient local economy that works for everyone.

Bringing this approach into the mainstream is urgent and fundamental to the future of thriving communities and a healthy planet. Our expertise is helping to put a wellbeing approach at the heart of how places and organisations work.

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Examples of our work

Understanding & Aligning Impact Goals – A Whole City Approach
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A Wellbeing Economy Roadmap for Towns
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Measuring, Understanding and Improving Wellbeing in Rural Areas
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What Makes Life Worthwhile Research
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Measuring More Than Numbers
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Covid: Wired
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What our partners and clients say about us

“The Thriving Places Index is a brilliant tool for debating what we think matters most in our lives, exploring just how different parts of the UK are doing, and asking why there are such vast differences between them. This is just the kind of metric needed to steer us wisely through the 21st century.”
Kate Raworth
Kate Raworth Economist and Author of Doughnut Economics
“To build an economy that delivers wellbeing for people and the planet, we need systemic transformation that starts where people are. The Thriving Places Index does exactly that: it starts where people are, and measures success through the lens of wellbeing. Metrics like these are vital because they open up conversations about the purpose of the economy, and what living good lives.”
Dr Katherine Trebeck
Dr Katherine TrebeckAdvocacy and Influencing lead at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance and author of The Economics of Arrival
“The Thriving Places Index and the work of the Centre for Thriving Places gives government, policy-makers, public services and people an exciting alternative to measuring Gross Domestic Product as the only marker of well-being.“
Sophie Howe
Sophie HoweFuture Generations Commissioner, Welsh Government
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our consultancy services

People &
Places

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Supporting places to move through the cycle of engagement and exploration, measurement and understanding, improving and inspiring wider change. We can offer a huge head start to local places across the UK interested in building back better with fairer, more sustainable and resilient policies and practices. 

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Research &
Measurement

We work with places to use and adapt the most relevant and robust tools – our own and others’ – to provide a perfect fit for programme objectives, gather initial baseline data and share and explore together the results to enable people to see and understand the big picture and specific impacts.

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our tools & resources

Thriving places index

Instead of focusing on growing consumption, the Thriving Places Index focuses on the things that help people and places to do well.
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The happiness pulse

The Happiness Pulse combines various academic measures of wellbeing into a simple five minute survey with the option for more.
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Free useful resources

We have brought together a selection of reports, books and other useful resources all in one place.
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