Category: Member

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored focuses on our second Waves Learning Network session on digital democracy.

17th December, 2025

AI • Community Power • Digital Democracy • Innovation • Waves

Hearing about the Together we are powered by communities strategy at Westmorland and Furness Council

2nd December, 2025

Community engagement • Partnerships • Place

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored focuses on work being undertaken in Andover around health partnerships

25th November, 2025

Community • Health • Place building

Hearing about the Change Maker programme at Westminster City Council

18th November, 2025

Community engagement • Participation and co-production

Hearing about outcomes partnerships with Bridges Outcomes Partnerships and AllChild

11th November, 2025

Outcomes focused • Partnerships • Prevention • Public Services

Exploring South Staffordshire's digital journey with residents at its heart

22nd October, 2025

digital transformation • Partnerships • Place • Public Services

Exploring a project targeting specific priority areas within a place as a way of tackling inequality and disadvantage

17th October, 2025

Neighbourhood • Partnerships • Place • Public Services

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored focuses on our first Waves Learning Network session on digital democracy.

8th July, 2025

AI • Community Power • Digital Democracy • Innovation • Waves

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored focuses on how place shaping could look for your council and the benefits of this way of working both for colleagues and for communities.

24th June, 2025

Community engagement • Place building • Place shaping • Regeneration

Exploring how local authorities can integrate climate risk into their strategic planning and work through the significant impacts on future service delivery.

23rd June, 2025

Climate change • Partnerships • Public Services • Transformation

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored explores how bringing systems leaders together connects services and improves outcomes for residents.

29th April, 2025

Community Cohesion • Community engagement

Bridging the digital divide is essential for local authorities striving to create inclusive and thriving communities.

18th March, 2025

Community engagement • Digital

Tackling empty homes in the UK is a critical step toward addressing the housing crisis and revitalizing communities.

27th February, 2025

Community engagement • Housing • Regeneration

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored explores building community cohesion to help communities and places thrive.

28th January, 2025

Community Cohesion • Community engagement

Neighbourhood ways of working are being considered by many councils as a way to bring them closer to their communities.

4th December, 2024

Community engagement • Neighbourhood

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored explores explores different approaches of democratic working that local authorities have used and see the impact it has had on their relationships with their communities

28th November, 2024

Community engagement • Democratic engagement

Using outcomes-focused relational working to reduce demand on statutory services can be difficult, but it has the potential to help local authorities effectively deliver preventative interventions.

5th November, 2024

Childrens' Services • Health and social care • Prevention • Public Services

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored explores long term investment in prevention and working in different ways in partnership across local systems of public services and voluntary sector organisations

25th October, 2024

Community engagement • Prevention

Working towards a fairer share of wealth across a locality helps bind communities together and gives the impetus to help drive forward the local economy.

15th October, 2024

Community engagement • Community-led • wealth building

Creating a strategy that is shaped by frontline services as well as those accessing them is vital for local authorities.

17th September, 2024

Community engagement • Equality • Public Services

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored explores community-powered methods to put residents at the heart of budgeting decisions and how to shift to more open dialogue about what stretched finances mean for services.

13th September, 2024

Budgeting • Community engagement • Local government • Strategy and leadership

Real-time data is a powerful tool for councils. Throughout the life cycle of a project, data can show what works and what doesn’t, leading to better decision making and improved outcomes.

10th July, 2024

Community engagement • Community Power

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored explores the importance of collaboration with communities in planning and development

25th June, 2024

Community engagement • Planning • Regeneration

Watch recordings from our flagship community power event of the year. Password: SkyFullOfStars Member Events A confidential and safe environment in which participants share and learn real-life insights.

4th June, 2024

Community Power • Impact

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored takes a look what a successful social economy could look like and what would be needed to help it thrive.

4th April, 2024

Community business • Community Power • Economy and business • Finance • Local government

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored looks at how corporate teams can practically build a strong focus on communities into day-to-day operations.

4th April, 2024

Community Power • Culture • Local government • Strategy and leadership

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored looks at the kind of leadership skills needed in councils today.

4th April, 2024

Culture • Leadership • Local government • Skills • Strategy and leadership

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored takes a look at how councils can develop their focus on community wellbeing.

4th April, 2024

Community engagement • Community Power • Local government • Measurement and Evaluation • Public Services • Wellbeing

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored takes a look at the opportunities emerging from design thinking for local government, and how design-led systems change can improve outcomes locally.

4th March, 2024

Local government • Public Services • Strategy and leadership

28th February, 2024

Community engagement • Community Power

We put Des Keighan in our ‘How We Did It’ hot seat to hear how Swansea Bay University Health Board has become low carbon by retrofitting buildings and turning unused land into a solar farm which powers the local...

22nd February, 2024

Climate change • Community Power • Finance

Helen Chicot from Rochdale Council introduces a three-year project which has used Good Help principles to tackle the council’s most pressing challenges, transforming the way the way it works and its relationships with residents.

23rd November, 2023

Community engagement

Lorinda Freint from Richmond and Wandsworth Councils and Bex Trevalyan from Platform Places introduce Local Property Partnerships and explain how it’s helping tackle high street decline in Wandsworth Town.

17th October, 2023

Community engagement • Community Power • Local government

Xia Lin from Toynbee Hall introduces a research method designed to embed resident participation in local change-making and explains how co-design principles can be used to level the power playing field.

6th September, 2023

Community engagement • Community Power • Local government • Participation and co-production

Councils are constantly looking for new ways to engage their residents, from citizens’ assemblies to listening sofas. Critical to doing this well is to understand and to tell the story […]

15th June, 2023

Community engagement

Shuff Tariq and Sarah Cooke explain how Manchester delivered one of the most successful homelessness projects in the UK.

5th April, 2023

Community engagement • Homelessness • Public Services

16th March, 2023

Community engagement • Culture

8th March, 2023

Community engagement

7th March, 2023

Community engagement

22nd February, 2023

Community engagement

In this instalment of our ‘How We Did It’ event series, Ben Hughes from Essex County Council shares his experience of setting up the Essex Recovery Foundation which is not only person-led, but community-powered, with former service-users integral to...

8th February, 2023

Community engagement

Places need new types of leaders, ones who increasingly collaborate with staff and communities to tackle today’s biggest challenges. This type of leadership is about starting to shift power to put others in the driving seat.

16th January, 2023

Strategy and leadership

How can you properly measure something when you are working in a system that frequently asks the wrong questions, focuses on the wrong measure, and can obsess over costs and ignore true value?

16th January, 2023

Impact

Making integration happen is by no means easy. Ambitions are often weighed down by complex restructuring, governance arrangements, and technical challenges around issues such as sharing data.

17th November, 2022

Partnerships

We live in unprecedented times, where we are facing increasing emergencies in our communities. From Covid-19 to the cost-of-living crisis; the answer to solving these issues sits with our residents.

14th November, 2022

Community engagement

Practice needs to shift in the council itself, in the local system and in working with communities to develop a community-focused approach to addressing health inequalities.

18th October, 2022

Health and social care

Risk – and aversion to it – is often thought to be the reason why a given innovation will fail to emerge in the public sector. Councils are strongly incentivised to take risks seriously and to avoid them when possible,...

3rd October, 2022

Local government finance

Local economic change looms for many communities. High streets are transforming as consumer habits shift, working patterns are altering in the wake of the pandemic, and new kinds of local economic collaboration are emerging.

3rd October, 2022

Community Power • Economy and business • Finance

Ideas and reflections on the challenges of: Developing a simple narrative that is owned by partners and communities, not just the council, and reflects the diversity of voices and experiences in the place; Making the narrative meaningful in practice and...

19th May, 2022

Community engagement • Community Power • Community Voices • Narrative building • Place building • Strategy and leadership

Ideas and reflections on embedding a more autonomous and permissive working culture; building greater resilience within the workforce; and creating a culture of co-production with local partners and communities.

2nd March, 2022

Commissioning and Procurement • Community Power • Culture • Participation and co-production • Partnerships