Place-Based Peer Learning Newsletter: March 2025

Published on March 5, 2025

Upcoming Events

Failing Well

Join our panel discussion with City of Culture applicants and discover how their unsuccessful bids led to their development of new paths, partnerships and programmes. The session will include contributions from County Durham, Medway, Southampton and Stoke.

The session will take place on Wednesday 19 March.

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Connect and Reflect

Join our next ‘Connect and Reflect’ session on Wednesday 26 March.

Each session focuses on a particular theme, we provide suggested questions to start the discussion and then it's over to you to talk about the topic with your peers. March’s session will focus on the learning from failure.

Our ‘Connect and Reflect’ sessions take place monthly and provide the perfect time to digitally connect with your place-based peers, consider a range of themes and come away with new approaches to your work.

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Learning from Failure

Save the date for our upcoming FailSpace training with Professor Leila Jancovich on Wednesday 30 April.

FailSpace explores how the cultural sector can better recognise, acknowledge and learn from failure.

We’ll be sharing more details soon!

Take a listen

Check out our new podcast series, Conversations in Place.

The series focuses on the great work happening in place, featuring a range of voices from across the country. Tune in as they explore and discuss creativity and culture and the people that make it happen.

We'll be featuring an episode over the coming newsletters, starting with the Portland Inn Project in Stoke-on-Trent.

Listen now

Hivebrite

Hivebrite is our digital community networking platform open to those working in a place-based way. We’re delighted to share that you can now download an app version of the platform on Android, as well as Apple.

Just head to your App Store and search for ‘Place Based Peer Learning’ and download.

Download on Apple

Download on Android

Catch up

Advocacy Skills

Would you like to develop your advocacy skills? Are you keen to develop an advocacy strategy but need some helpful tips on where to start?

Take a look at the recordings of our recent sessions, ‘Introduction to Advocacy and Key Steps to Developing an Advocacy Strategy’ and ‘Developing Advocacy Skills’, with Helen Collinson, International NGO Training & Research Centre. Helen is an advocacy practitioner with thirty years’ experience in this field.

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Joint Cultural Needs Assessment

Can up on our recent session with Jonothan Neelands and Mark Scott on how to utilise the updated Joint Cultural Needs Assessment Guidelines.

Discover how the guidelines can help you align cultural strategies with local priorities to address urgent place-based needs.

Take a look

Project Sharing

In our ‘Project Shares’ event we heard from a variety of programming for poverty awareness projects, and we will be highlighting one of the case studies shared with us at the event over the coming newsletters.

Right up our Street, a Creative People and Places programme, shared details of their annual event, Into the Park, and how they worked with the local community to make the event as inclusive as possible.

Interested in finding out more? All the project share recordings are available to view on Hivebrite.

Catch up

Better Places Partnership

The Better Places Partnership (BPP) was a formal delivery partnership between the Arts Council and Historic England, involving seven DCMS arms length bodies.

Originally called the Levelling Up Places Service, it delivered a series of online webinars and in-person workshops. These gave local authorities and groups the opportunity to share ideas and learnings with colleagues, like-minded people, and subject matter experts.

A range of resources and session recordings can be found on Historic England’s website.

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