Collaborative places and neighbourhoods

Tackle challenges by working together with communities and across sectors.

At a time when local resources and funds are as scarce as they’ve ever been, working together to tackle challenges and putting people at the heart of this work, has never been more needed, but this doesn’t always come naturally to systems and organisations operating in communities and places.

We support local authorities and other organisations working in communities take on up their role as system stewards, and even, place leaders. Looking beyond boundaries and working together to truly tackle the complex challenges in neighbourhoods and places.

How can we help?

We understand that improving outcomes for communities means collaboration across all sectors in a place.

We help you strengthen local partnerships and teams based on collaborative foundations such as a shared vision, strong relationships, collaborative behaviours and understanding the means for collaborative action.

We can help you to work alongside citizens to build community capacity and capability; for example, by co-locating services to work together at a hyper-local scale.

Find out more

Email [email protected] to find out more or for a conversation.

 Alison McKenzie-Folan OBE, Wigan Council

Insights

Neighbourhoods and places

Dec 11th 2025

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People, purpose and power

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Apr 11th 2025

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People, purpose and power for a new era

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Apr 14th 2022

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What does it take to change local systems?

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Apr 22nd 2021

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Watford’s Road to Renewal

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Nov 17th 2020

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