News

The Government’s upcoming £5bn Pride in Place funding is a welcome and much needed initiative in places up and down the country.  Its focus on helping places to thrive, and doing so with the active involvement of communities is something we at Centre for Thriving Places have been doing for... read more →

The urgent need for courageous leadership from every UK region CTP's CEO Liz Zeidler chaired a panel for RORE (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) at the 2025 Labour Party conference on the role of regions in resisting the rise of the far right. Here she reflects on the feelings of the... read more →

Finding the real enemy, reclaiming local economies and building a better future On Monday 29 September our CEO Liz Zeidler will host a Reclaiming Our Regional Economies (RORE) fringe event at the Labour Party Conference, on how local leadership and community empowerment can resist the rise of the far right.... read more →

Recent headlines about massive local government sell offs have got Liz Zeidler, CTP's Co-Founder, angry. In her new blog she turns her anger to action as she explores the bigger picture reasons behind this asset stripping, and more importantly what can be done to stop it deepening. When I see... read more →

My Week is part of a new occasional blog series to give you insights into what we do here at Centre For Thriving Places, and also what our team members do alongside work to feed their own wellbeing – particularly during the quieter summer months. Here's Rosie Maguire, our Policy and Programmes... read more →

It’s a pleasure to welcome Jo Burkill to CTP as our new Strategic Communications Manager. Jo has a postgraduate diploma in PR and media relations, and trained at one of the UK’s leading PR consultancies before moving to award-winning social enterprise Timewise, where she stayed for over 15 years. In... read more →

This May, CTP hosted a workshop at the 2025 Festival of Debate in Sheffield, in partnership with SY (South Yorkshire) Ecofit. The event was about opening up new ways of making decisions by putting people and place at the heart of the conversation.  The workshop, titled Collaborative Policy Making for... read more →

BLOG: In an age when an individual can be richer than entire countries, Mike Zeidler, one of CTP’s co-founders and Board member invites us to reimagine our fetishising of extreme wealth.  The Sunday Times Rich List was published this week. It is an annual ranking of those who have accumulated... read more →

During May, the UK has two bank holidays, meaning many people will be working four-day weeks without a reduction in pay – a system that we have operated here at CTP since 2018*. Our Head of Operations Katie Tiplady-Startin reflects on whether now is the perfect time to prove to... read more →

Rarely does the CTP team get excited about a Corporate Plan, but this week we did just that when we read the newly published South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA)’s 2025-2028 Corporate Plan. Not only does it set out a bold and ambitious vision for delivering for the people of... read more →