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Webinar: Place-based community-led regeneration

How can philanthropy catalyse the conditions for place-based, community-led regeneration?

A report funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation to explore how philanthropic funds could accelerate the conditions for place-based regeneration. Led by Really Regenerative CIC, in collaboration with Regen Labs.

Place-Based Community-Led Regeneration: From Drip Feed to Flow

In 2024 Joseph Rowntree Foundation commissioned Really Regenerative CIC to study the enabling conditions for place-based community-led regeneration to flourish. In partnership with Regen Labs in Australia, we looked at two core 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 - can Joseph Rowntree Foundation play the most catalytic role in accelerating regenerative place-based transformation across the UK?


What will we cover in this webinar?

This webinar will share the findings of this comprehensive report. The report provides an in-depth look at the enabling conditions for place-based regeneration to flourish including insights from regenerative innovators and projects from Australia, New Zealand, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, The US, Europe and south-east Asia.

Additionally, the report also explores the hopes and expectations of private, philanthropic and family office funding in relation to place and regeneration, and how the gaps between ambitions on between funders and community could be bridged.

During this webinar, you will:

  • Hear from the research team who will present the report findings

  • Explore the challenges and opportunities these findings present.

  • Engage in an exploration of how the contents of this report might be acted upon and support regenerative emergence through community

This event is aimed at anyone passionate about regeneration from place including:

  • Regenerative practitioners and leaders of place-based transformative projects

  • Policymakers

  • Social and economic researchers and academics

  • Community leaders

  • Place-based anchor institutions

  • Philanthropic funders, family offices and private impact investors