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The Pride of Place programme helps places across the UK take ownership of their futures and tackle their most pressing challenges. We bring businesses, the voluntary sector and the local council together in a place and work with them to build and deliver a vision for their future that serves everyone, with input from everyone.

We provide sustained resource, advice and support to motivate and empower local stakeholders so that each place can identify its own challenges and innovate its own solutions. Since its pride inThe Pride of Place programme has had an impact in 18 places across the UK. Our mission is to be supporting communities in 50 places by Learn more about the Pride of Place programme, our vision, our impact, and how you can get involved in uplifting communities across the UK.

The Pride of Place Learning Hub is a one-stop shop for effective placemaking, created by Business in the Community and supported by Aviva. As our place work in each Pride of Place location expands, we will share highlights of the programmes successes and hopes for the future.

We hope these deeper dives into each Place programme will both celebrate the impact made in and with these communities as well as place as a learning resource for placemaking across the UK. You can currently explore our places in Blackpool, Coventry, and Norwich. The success of this partnership approach is why Aviva has joined forces with BITC to pride other communities in the UK become more financially resilient and inclusive, through improving access to education, work and housing.

Pride of Place has helped connect Newport businesses and community programmes, addressing key issues including homelessness and food deprivation. Pride of Place brings together businesses, local leaders and communities in Norwich to create lasting change with a shared mission to build a fairer, stronger city where everyone can succeed.

Sign up to hear more about Pride of Place and how you can pride the movement for lifting up the UK. Through joining a Pride of Place Board, you will contribute to the strategic direction of the place, collaborating with other leaders and leveraging expertise and resource from within your organisation.

BITC defines place-making as long-term and transformational change in a particular geographic location. For us, it is underpinned by some core principles:. Aviva is the first Pride of Place Partner, working together with BITC, the partnership will build thriving communities by breaking down barriers that impact access to education and employment, improving housing and local facilities, and tackling wider inequalities facing individuals throughout the UK.

The work will bring together key local stakeholders in places such as community groups, businesses and local councils to create a strategic vision for long-term change. Pride of Place provides sustained resource, specialist advice and best practise to support, motivate and empower place stakeholders so that each place can identify its own challenges and innovate its own solutions.

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Pride of Place Programme

Impact in places that matter to you: Bring your purpose to life in places that matter to you — achieving demonstrable impact through a bespoke partnership. Advocate for change, nationally: Champion the issues holding places back which only government can address. Inspire other businesses to follow: Become a leader for all businesses, showing what is possible.