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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Jul
22
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...
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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...
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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...
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