Join us for a day of ideas, panels, and workshops, and we’ll hear from lesser heard voices alongside those who hold power and influence.

Which legal structure is right for your community asset organisation - CIC, CIO, CLG or other? What else to consider when it comes to designing governance and structuring power, accountability and…

Which legal structure is right for your community asset organisation - CIC, CIO, CLG or other? What else to consider when it comes to designing governance and structuring power, accountability and ris...

Platform Places shows how community leaders, local business owners, asset owners and councils can gather—not as adversaries, but as co-creators of a shared ...

LFA2026 Theme Announced: Belonging   |   Find out more

You’ve got an amazing idea for an empty building. But you can’t track down the owner or get them to the table. Now what? Read on for tried-and-tested tactics from the Platform Places network.

At the end of 2025, Power to Change was invited to join Mayor Kim McGuinness’s new Commission tasked with reviving struggling high streets in the North East ...

An open, ‘working-out-loud’ piece by Makespace Oxford (Makespace), sharing our updated theories of change, visions and ideas as we build on…

Thank you so much to everyone who showed up to our Marmalade session last Friday. And, of course to our wonderful speakers and workshop facilitators, and all of the Makespace team that made it happen…

Tucked away on a residential road in East London, just off Leytonstone High Road, there’s a vibrant hub of coworking, community and culture. Good Shepherd Studios has been lovingly brought back to lif...

Highlights & How-tos | 6 months of the Local Property Partnerships pilot (2024-2027)

Shifting multiple buildings into community use and ownership The National Lottery Community Fund has supported Platform Places and partners with almost £2.5 million over three years — made possible…

New initiative will support local areas to reimagine and revive their struggling high streets

An exhibition of community-led projects that could have transformed Britain.

You’ve got an amazing idea for an empty building. But you can’t track down the owner or get them to the table. Now what? Read on for tried-and-tested tactics from the Platform Places network.

You’ve got an amazing idea for an empty building. But you can’t track down the owner or get them to the table. Now what? Read on for tried-and-tested tactics from the Platform Places network.