In the UK, one in eight households has no access to a garden, and BAME households are nearly 400% more likely to have no access to outdoor space at home at all. New data from the ONS shows for the first time the distribution of private outdoor space (gardens) across... read more →
Jul
22
Jun
22
Centre for Thriving Places is looking for one or more freelance web developers to support us to maintain and develop our websites and digital measurement tools. We are a small charity with big ambitions based in Bristol, looking to build long term relationships with developers who share our values. About... read more →
Jun
19
Leadership lessons from the COVID crisis In our patriarchal world ‘women’s roles’ and ‘female attributes’ tend to be clustered under some form of ‘caring’ bracket. The ‘caring economy’ – from healthcare, to social care, to childcare – is either seen as a free resource to be exploited, or a cost to be... read more →
Jun
04
The Centre for Thriving Places categorically believes that there is no place for racism in our world. Our capacity to truly thrive as individuals and as a society, is interdependent on the capacity for all people, of all backgrounds, cultures and beliefs, to thrive. We are actively working to change... read more →
May
21
For some, the current crisis has been a rare period of space – a time for renewal, rest and reviving hobbies or distant friendships. For others it has been catastrophic. Illness, redundancy, fear and loneliness have swept the nation alongside the virus itself. What we have all shared though is... read more →
Apr
29
We are currently facing unprecedented challenges to our wellbeing - individually, locally and globally. Sadly for some it is a matter of survival, but for many it is more a day-to-day struggle to ‘cope’, to navigate the completely new way of life we are facing. Whether the challenge is loneliness,... read more →
Apr
14
We've adapted our popular resource, The Little Book of WOW to reflect the new circumstances that people are experiencing during the Covid-19 crisis. The Little Book of WINS (Wellbeing in Novel Situations) is based on the Five Ways to Wellbeing, an evidence-based approach for boosting wellbeing and resilience in the... read more →
Apr
09
This guest blog from Joanne was prepared in February 2020 before the COVID-19 crisis dramatically changed the way that we live and work. The wellbeing of the country has arguably become more of a priority for policy makers once this crisis is over in order to learn lessons and 'build back better'.... read more →
Mar
25
On March 18 2020 we released the fourth annual Thriving Places Index. The Thriving Places Index identifies the local conditions for wellbeing and measures whether those conditions are being delivered fairly and sustainably. It consists of a broad set of indicators selected from datasets produced by established data agencies such... read more →
Mar
25
If you want to learn what the spirit of the people is by means of arithmetic, it goes without saying that that’s extremely difficult. Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” When CP Snow published The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution in 1959 it seems unlikely he had the voluntary and community... read more →