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08 September 2026Citizens for Culture: the making of a citizen-led Cultural Plan
A new 16-minute documentary tells the story of the West of England’s Citizens’ Assembly for Culture through the people who took part – and invites more people to be part of what happens next.
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Social and affordable housing: Investment deep dive
An investment deep dive on social and affordable housing in the UK, giving an overview of the challenges facing the sector as well as both the impact and the investment opportunity for asset allocators. It also offers guidance on community-centred approaches.
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Community-led art and creativity: mid-strategy review
We’re pleased to share a report by DHA Communications reviewing Esmée Fairbairn Foundation’s support for community-led art and creativity. It looks at the context for this work and what progress has been made. Alison Holdom, Esmée Funding Lead for Creative, Confident Communities, also shares reflections on the recommendations.
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Migration Museum: building a new museum with community at its heart
Migration Museum share how they developed a People’s Panel to embed local voices directly into the creation of their new, permanent home.
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Supporting place-based and community-led racial justice
In this blog, Gillian Goode, a Funding Manager in Esmée’s Creative, Confident Communities team, reflects on ‘place’ within racial justice.
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Blue Spaces: Working in partnership to improve local freshwaters in the UK
The Blue Spaces programme set out to support people and organisations to take imaginative approaches to looking after their freshwater environments. Read our report, which shares the collective learning of everyone involved – from the funding process to the different approaches of the 19 funded projects, and the learning programme co-designed with them.
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Blue Spaces: Reflections on youth leadership, trust and place-based funding
Thalia Papanicolaou from HUDL Youth Development Agency shares her insights into how the Blue Spaces programme unfolded - and why this way of working with young people created such meaningful change.
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Insights from place-led funding 2: Continuing to learn and improve our approach
We're pleased to share our second Insights from place-led funding report, which shares learning on three large scale initiatives we supported in three places: Barking & Dagenham, Plymouth, and Sandwell.
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Community-led art and creativity – 2025 review: Invitation to tender
We are looking to work with an external consultant to carry out a short review to inform how we deliver our strategy for Community-led art and creativity.
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Launching the Involving Young People Fund in May 2025
The Involving Young People Fund launches in May 2025 in Wakefield and Barnsley, putting young people in the lead to fund projects that tackle the issues they care about most.
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