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JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION

A global study into the enabling conditions for place-bsed community-led regeneration.

In 2024 we convened a global exploration within the place-based regenerative communities working on bioregional strategy, urban transformation, rural regeneration and systems evolution to understand the enabling conditions and capabilities that might accelerate place-based community-led regeneration to flourish, and that could be adapted and applied in a UK context. We sought to provide insights to key questions:-

• What conditions and capacities enable communities to steward holistic, regenerative transformation of their places, at the level, longevity and depth required by the polycrisis?

• How – as a philanthropic organisation – Joseph Rowntree Foundation can play the most catalytic role in accelerating regenerative place-based transformation across the UK?

• What examples of regenerative community-led projects exist and what signals are they giving about the conditions of place-based work that focuses on all aspects of the polycrisis – economic, ecological and social/cultural?

• How might JRF accelerate these conditions for regenerative place-based community work through existing mission-oriented grant programmes but also through the release of endowment funds?

TEAM
Jenny Andersson
Josie Warden
Maria Camilla Carrascal
Dr Dimity Podger, Regen Labs

The full report will be released ion 3 April.