By Sam Wren-Lewis The Centre for Thriving Places recently teamed up with the Office of National Statistics (ONS) and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) to look at the state of loneliness across the UK. In particular, the project looked at how people’s levels of loneliness have... read more →
Apr
27
Mar
10
The Centre for Thriving Places is a small charity with a big vision, to improve everyone's chances of living a good life. Our innovative work on economics and wellbeing influences people and places throughout the UK, consistently drawing national and international attention. We need to recruit a first class replacement for our first class Treasurer, who... read more →
Mar
08
On International Women’s Day, Liz Zeidler reflects on how the pandemic is fuelling the urgency for ‘good’ jobs where men AND women are not only decently paid with flexible working conditions, but also cherished as the most important part of the workplace. Just as the pandemic has prompted us to... read more →
Feb
05
BY SAAMAH ABDALLAH and LISA MÜLLER Yesterday the ONS launched its most significant data set on subjective wellbeing since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in spring 2020. Unsurprisingly, the pandemic and associated restrictions have taken their toll on our wellbeing. For example, the percentage of people reporting low or medium life satisfaction... read more →
Dec
10
Centre for Thriving Places is delighted to be working with Carnegie UK Trust and Power to Change to develop more support for UK towns to shift to a wellbeing economy approach. This guest blog from Lauren Pennycook, former Senior Policy and Development Officer at Carnegie UK, outlines brilliantly just why that work is so... read more →
Sep
17
We’re working with Bristol City Funds to adapt the Thriving Places Index framework to their funding criteria - creating a city-level evaluation framework that measures the impact of the projects they support. The ‘City Funds Evaluation Programme’ will comprise a set of city-level indicators relating to City Funds priority areas... read more →
Sep
15
Covid 19 has tested the nation and the world. It has provided an unprecedented shared experience and prompted a significant rethink of priorities at all levels of society. From far sighted businesses and concerned citizens to politicians of all persuasions, more and more voices are demanding that we ‘Build Back... read more →
Sep
02
Two in five people in the UK live in towns yet all too often funding and attention goes to larger, more metropolitan areas or regions. Discussion on towns seem to focus primarily on decline - rather than looking ahead to the role that towns could play in shaping the future... read more →
Sep
01
We’re working with the Carnegie UK Trust and Power to Change on a project to develop and embed a wellbeing approach for towns. Flourishing Towns will deliver customised wellbeing evaluation frameworks for two pilot towns - to be used to assist in developing policy and in funding initiatives that support... read more →
Aug
10
Centre for Thriving Places has been helping places build a better economy for over ten years. Now that governments and communities around the world are talking about ‘Building Back Better’ what role can Centre for Thriving Places play in supporting that momentum to result in real, lasting and equitable change... read more →