past newsletter issues
APRIL 2025
In this issue – Shaping an ambitious plan for South Yorkshire; Retrofit and warming up our regional economies; CTP’s upcoming workshop at Sheffield Festival Of Debate.
NOVEMBER 2024
In this issue – Pockets of hope in changing times; Remarkable learnings from work with Gloucestershire Hotspots Network; the latest data release for our Thriving Places Index (TPI); CTP and social media; Autumn budget perspectives.
TPI Data Release
The Thriving Places Index (TPI) is the Centre for Thriving Places’ flagship analysis of how well places across the country are doing at creating the conditions for everyone to thrive. The framework and data behind it provide an evidence-based map of the key interconnected conditions a place needs to grow wellbeing in a fair and sustainable way.
SUMMER 2024
In this issue – Thriving Places Index data release Launch Webinar; CTP’s growing toolkit; the launch of the Financial Wellbeing Pulse and guest blog by Chris Budd; Voting to end greed; CTP statement on far right violence.
JUNE 2024
In this issue – CTP is recruiting for a Research & Analysis Manager; Our Election 2024 blog and the ‘Age Of Greed’; Meet our new Board Members; The first report of the Reclaiming Our Regional Economies (RORE) partnership; Studies on the commercial determinants of health.
Summer 2023
In this issue – a summer round-up of the year so far: A blog for devolving power; news on projects and positive partnerships; update on our Happiness Pulse.
June 2023
In this issue: Delivering a wellbeing economy approach to healthcare; our Happiness Pulse tool gets an upgrade; deadline extended in our Head of Research recruitment drive.
May 2023
In this issue: supporting those elected to local leadership; our collective climate responsibilities; our hunt for a new Head of Research; a new collaborative working space for CTP.
April 2023
In this issue: How CTP can help VCSE organisations; A snapshot of people keen to discuss wellbeing economic frameworks; An invitation to help the Chancellor re-frame national budgets; An upcoming Good Read; and a few highlights from our social media feeds in case you missed them. READ MORE HERE
MARCH 2023
In this issue: International Women’s Day celebration; Valuable new info for Mental Health and Wellbeing policymakers; Welbeing Economy models compared; A film recommendation and a note on the power of language.
FEBRUARY 2023
Special Release: Discussion paper comparing the Shared Ingredients between the foremost Wellbeing Economy Models available and in use in the UK today.
January 2023
In this issue: a Brief CTP Update; Oxfam sheds light on mind boggling inequalities; a tribute to Jacinda Ardern; Recommended links and a tribute for one of our own.
December 2022
Our last update of 2022 comes at the end of a year that, for many, has been one of the most challenging, with cost of living pressures, energy costs, the climate crisis and profound inequality being just some of the hardships faced in the UK and beyond.
November 2022
As well as delivering a wide range of projects embedding wellbeing economics around the UK, we’re continuing to develop and deliver research using the Thriving Places Index (TPI) whose 2022 scores we released in September. READ MORE HERE
October 2022
The Wellbeing Economy movement is not, as some would call it ‘anti-growth’, but rather it is a roadmap to growing the right things – our capacity to thrive, equitably and sustainably. READ MORE HERE
THRIVING PLACES INDEX 2022 SPECIAL
As hardship and uncertainty spread, fuelled by a mini-budget that will benefit the UK’s top earners while increasing inequality, low wage insecure employment and climate damage, we need policy and action to deliver an equitable and sustainable world more than ever. READ MORE HERE