Our Services

Shaping | Empowering | Inspiring

We create impactful place-focused strategies by identifying and leveraging both tangible and intangible assets to shape attractive, enriching and sustainable places, in both urban and rural landscapes.

We approach this strategic place development process as an opportunity to create value by giving a voice to under-represented groups (including nature), to instil ownership and civic pride, and to champion partnership working and collaboration amongst place and community leaders.

Our place strategies inspire action and guide future development and management, creating opportunities for people and places to thrive, in balance with nature and the environment.

Shaping: Place Strategy

  • - Place Audits & Masterplanning
    - Stakeholder Mapping & Engagement
    - Sustainable Place Management Plans
    - Regenerative Tourism Development
    - Sport & Recreation Development Plans
    - Festivals & Events Strategy

  • Those with a place development, management and promotion remit;

    - Place Management Companies
    - Local Authorities / Municipalities
    - Local & Regional Partnerships
    - National Institutions / Agencies

Empowering: Management Consultancy

We recognise the need for strong place leadership, sustained multi-stakeholder commitment and resilient place-focused organisations.

With years of experience working within the urban and rural regeneration sectors, we understand the real-world pressures, challenges and constraints facing public, private and non-profit organisations striving to make a positive impact on places, communities and nature.

We offer practical support and strategic guidance, aligning organisational structures with goals, through a suite of management consulting services, specifically tailored for place-based and place-focused organisations.

  • - Strategic & Operational Planning
    - Place Integration Strategy
    - Corporate Governance
    - Social Enterprise Development
    - Funding Guidance & Support
    - Impact Measurement & Reporting

  • Place-focused and/or community-based organisations;

    - Urban & Rural Regeneration Companies
    - Business Improvement Districts (BIDs)
    - Cultural, Arts & Heritage Organisations
    - Destination Management Organisations

Inspiring: Research & Insights

We make it our business to stay ahead of the curve on the latest place management and development trends emerging right across the globe.

Through our networks and affiliations we track these supply-side and demand-side shifts and their potential impacts for places, place leaders and policymakers at national, regional and local levels. We naturally embed these trends and benchmarking insights in both our projects and the research we deliver for partners.

We also keep space to deep-dive into areas of research where we can shine a light on some of the most pressing challenges, as well as the most exciting opportunities, for places in the future.

  • - Trends Mapping & Analysis
    - International Benchmarking
    - Thought Leadership
    - Social Impact / Sustainability
    - Placemaking & Peacebuilding
    - Keynote Presentations

  • Those setting ‘people and place’ focused agendas, strategy and policy;

    - Political Representatives & Policymakers
    - Non-Governmental Organisations
    - National / European Agencies
    - Private Sector / Project Partners