About Centre for Thriving Places
Flourishing Towns: Town-based wellbeing economics metrics for the Carnegie UK Trust and Power to Change
We’re working with the Carnegie UK Trust and Power to Change on a project to develop and embed a wellbeing approach for towns. Flourishing Towns will deliver customised wellbeing evaluation...
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Gardens and green space: a hidden social divide?
In the UK, one in eight households has no access to a garden, and BAME households are nearly 400% more likely to have no access to outdoor space at home...
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Looking for freelance web developers to join our network
Centre for Thriving Places is looking for one or more freelance web developers to support us to maintain and develop our websites and digital measurement tools. We are a small...
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Time for a more care-full economy?
Leadership lessons from the COVID crisis In our patriarchal world ‘women’s roles’ and ‘female attributes’ tend to be clustered under some form of ‘caring’ bracket. The ‘caring economy’ – from healthcare,...
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Centre for Thriving Places Statement in support of Black Lives Matter
The Centre for Thriving Places categorically believes that there is no place for racism in our world. Our capacity to truly thrive as individuals and as a society, is interdependent...
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Has lockdown created a path to a wellbeing economy?
For some, the current crisis has been a rare period of space – a time for renewal, rest and reviving hobbies or distant friendships. For others it has been catastrophic....
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New tools and resources to help people and communities to thrive
We are currently facing unprecedented challenges to our wellbeing - individually, locally and globally. Sadly for some it is a matter of survival, but for many it is more a...
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The Little Book of WINS
We've adapted our popular resource, The Little Book of WOW to reflect the new circumstances that people are experiencing during the Covid-19 crisis. The Little Book of WINS (Wellbeing in...
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Marmot, fist pumps and tea – Guest blog from Joanne Smithson Local Government and Health Lead at What Works Centre for Wellbeing
This guest blog from Joanne was prepared in February 2020 before the COVID-19 crisis dramatically changed the way that we live and work. The wellbeing of the country has arguably become more...
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Thriving Places Index 2020
On March 18 2020 we released the fourth annual Thriving Places Index. The Thriving Places Index identifies the local conditions for wellbeing and measures whether those conditions are being delivered...
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