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Making finance work for community assets
Explore the practicalities and risks of managing money when developing and running community-led spaces...


What's stopping community retrofit?
As part of the Retrofit 25 Exhibition – What’s Stopping Us? at the Building Centre, Collective Works , Footwork, and The National...


Growing the movement for locally-led neighbourhood transformation: Footwork and Platform Places join forces
As of July 2025, Footwork Trust and Platform Places are formally integrating...


Building for change: the architecture of neighbourhood transformation
Reflections on our summer Footworking event (24th June, 2025) , by Naomi Rubbra "I have a very simple proposition for the audience and...


Getting started with community-led retrofit
What should you consider when retrofitting community assets? Sara Edmonds of National Retrofit Hub shares some top tips.


A Trip to York: YorSpace hosts a 'Go-See'
YorSpace is York's Community Land Trust dedicated to building a tangible solution to York’s housing shortage – by creating financially...


Marmalade Festival: people, power and place
In creating value for our places we risk gentrifying them. How do we sit with these contradictions of the politics of space?


Meet the Mentors & Peer Supporters for People & Place 2025
“Developing a sustainable community asset is not for the faint hearted.” Yvonne Field, The Ubele Initiative It takes grit, resilience and...


Springing into action: People and Place Liverpool Field Trip
From laundrettes to pies to warehouses - Liverpool shows us what happens when communities begin to transform their neighbourhoods.


People and Place 2025 kicks off!
What happens when emerging Community Asset Developers, from 10 cities and towns across England, gather together in one room? Peers...


Generous gatherings: celebrating People and Place
“Our neighborhood is building because we've taken that time to go and talk to people, get to know people, do the street interventions,...


Meet the People and Place 2025 community innovators!
Over the next year, community innovators in across the country, will receive Footwork’s support to realise bold ambitions for change


Made in Liverpool: Footwork field trip
On Friday 20th September, peers from Footwork’s People and Place programme and Platform Places convened en masse in Liverpool for a...


Communities as clients: what could development look like?
In early July at Box Park in Wembley, built environment stakeholders in all their forms convened for the annual Festival of Place


Housing injustice: realism, hope and calls to action
On a warm Thursday afternoon in June, individuals were convening at the Footwork Factory in Farringdon


Having a seat at the Stronger Things table!
Our gathering at London’s Guildhall was truly extraordinary, a unique coming together of community voices, creativity and collaboration....


Spotlight on this year's People and Place mentors
At the beginning of the People and Place Programme, Footwork together with peers, identify a suitable mentor together. Over the course of...


Home Planet: How can we innovate to address housing injustice?
Date: 27th June, 2024 Time: 5 to 7 PM Venue: Footwork Trust, 7-9 Woodridge Street, London EC1R 0LL Housing injustice is one of the most...


London Calling: Footwork field trip
Friday the 17th May marked the most important day in the Footwork 2024 calendar to date - the People and Place London Field Trip! This...


Meaningful Meanwhile: citizens not customers
How can we use meanwhile use to create long-term change? The Marmalade Festival sounds like a farmers market stocking all things jams and...
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