An action-focused online workshop for local authority officers and delivery partners, who want to drive positive change in Care Services.

Ending extraction in the UK care system RORE’s landmark report, Ending Care Extraction in the UK, reveals that private companies operating care services in just three UK regions have extracted over £2...

Exciting emerging new leaders are focusing their messages on the transformation of local communities - not on shifting money from one national pot to another. Should the government take note? In a doo...

More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds

Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Keir Milburn and Frances Northrop

Climate change has been identified as one of the most important health threats of the century. It is bringing warmer, wetter winters, hotter, drier summers and ...

Discover the growing and diversifying ecosystem of organisations working to transform Europe's economy.

The urgent need for courageous leadership from every UK region CTP’s CEO Liz Zeidler chaired a panel for RORE (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) at the 2025 Labour Party conference on the role of…

Economist Juliet Schor has studied every kind of business and found that thoughtfully reducing work hours benefits employees, improves productivity and increases profits. She explains how you too can…

How the radical experiment of privatisation transformed society and reshaped our lives.

Finding the real enemy, reclaiming local economies and building a better future On Monday 29 September our CEO Liz Zeidler will host a Reclaiming Our Regional Economies (RORE) fringe event at the…

Finding the real enemy, reclaiming local economies and building a better future On Monday 29 September our CEO Liz Zeidler will host a Reclaiming Our Regional Economies (RORE) fringe event at the…

Recent headlines about massive local government sell offs have got Liz Zeidler, CTP’s Co-Founder, angry. In her new blog she turns her anger to action as she explores the bigger picture reasons…

Recent headlines about massive local government sell offs have got Liz Zeidler, CTP’s Co-Founder, angry. In her new blog she turns her anger to action as she explores the bigger picture reasons…

Recent headlines about massive local government sell offs have got Liz Zeidler, CTP’s Co-Founder, angry. In her new blog she turns her anger to action as she explores the bigger picture reasons…

Recent headlines about massive local government sell offs have got Liz Zeidler, CTP’s Co-Founder, angry. In her new blog she turns her anger to action as she explores the bigger picture reasons…

What happens when people excluded from the economy are trusted to redesign it? In Liverpool City Region, they built one that works for them. This next essay in our 10-year anniversary campaign…

Recent headlines about massive local government sell offs have got Liz Zeidler, CTP’s Co-Founder, angry. In her new blog she turns her anger to action as she explores the bigger picture reasons…

The Highland Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee discussed a report on the latest update on the Community Wealth Building (CWB) Strategy.  The update highlighted significant progress…

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 alongside work to feed their own wellbeing –…

In his latest book The Care Economy, Jackson issues the powerful warning: our fixation on growth has come at the cost of the most vital parts of our lives—c ...

Join us online for a day of thought-provoking and progressive talks from some of the world’s most inspiring thinkers and activi...

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 alongside work to feed their own wellbeing –…

BY SARA EDMONDS Something powerful is stirring in the world of retrofit and it’s not just insulation and air source heat pumps. Its community voices rising. Its agency being reclaimed. It’s healing,…

Experts say many new homes being built in the UK not designed to withstand extreme summer temperatures

What drives the differences in population health among rich nations? Kate Pickett on the lower “wellbeing-adjusted” life expectancy of more unequal countries

Wular Lake once supported 5,000 people who harvested the plant’s edible roots, until the lake silted up after floods. Now the lotuses are back

As cities across the U.S. grapple with increasingly severe and more frequent flooding from intense storms and climate change, a growing number of municipalities are recognizing that the century-old…

We’re proud to support Asthma + Lung UK’s new campaign, which involves working with communities to better inform air pollution policy. In this article, Asthma + Lung UK explain the value of…

A new measure of economic success, the wellbeing economy generates, circulates and retains wealth within local communities while protecting human and environmental health for generations to come,…

Founded by Lina Lazaar, Ibraaz will host challenging conversations amid growing concerns over freedom of expression in the arts

Next time you travel, select businesses certified by an organisation with a proven track record of verification and transparency.

The government’s ongoing development of an industrial strategy provides an opportune moment to lay the foundations for a stronger and more secure domestic

An expert in public policy asks if it will ever be possible for political parties in Europe to be honest about the limits of growth – and still get elected.

Nature is medicine – so why has the government’s health plan ignored it?

Retrofit sounds like a boring word, but now I think it’s actually kind of a big deal. Before I came on work experience, I didn’t really know much about housing or retrofit. I just thought houses were…

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 the UK’s leading PR…