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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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... read more →

Retrofit – being more efficient about energy efficiency The UK has some of the oldest and most inefficient housing stock in the world. This is costly for those of us... read more →

A student’s perspective on working with CTP It’s been a pleasure to host Q Step student Jonathan Standing who has been with CTP for a day a week since November,... read more →

GUEST BLOG: As mayors and councils prepare their local growth plans, Tabitha Hamilton and Emmet Kiberd from our RORE partners NEF, look at how a less extractive model would benefit... read more →

Our plans for 2025 The team is looking forward to a productive year ahead – our blog lays out some of our ambitious projects you’ll be hearing more about as... read more →