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Community and place-based action

Community banking: shared interest

Feature

06 Dec 2024

Priya Sippy

Community banking is a microfinance model built on trust. In it, the community wins or loses together. It is gaining in popularity on the African continent as community banking goes digital.
Wikimedia: people-powered

Feature

06 Dec 2024

Lucy Crompton-Reid

In an age where knowledge is everything, Wikimedia’s behind-the-scenes communities are keeping the lights on and ensuring the truth is told.
Loyd Grossman: secret sauce

Feature

06 Dec 2024

Nicholas Wroe

New RSA Chair Loyd Grossman talks music, art and societal change, and why he thinks the work and mission of the RSA is more important now than ever.
VNCCII: Cosmic communities

Lead Feature

06 Dec 2024

Samantha Tauber

What can VNCCII, the fictional intergalactic superheroine alter ego of Samantha Tauber, teach us about the creative communities that need nourishing today?
Ten ways to improve planning in the UK

Comment

29 Nov 2024

Steve Newman

Steve Newman offers provocative propositions to modernise the planning system, create affordable and sustainable homes, and offer financial benefits to the government and local communities.
Unleashing the potential of the UK's cities: Core City profiles

Report

28 Oct 2024

This Core City profiles report extends the RSA’s UK Urban Futures Commission report, Unleashing the potential of the UK’s cities, released in September 2023.
Performance without walls

Arts In The Spotlight

18 Sep 2024

Without Walls is a network of outdoor arts organisations across England helping artists and festivals meet their environmental and creative goals.
A century of innovation

Feature

18 Sep 2024

Joanna Choukeir

From its ‘Industrial Designs’ competition in 1924 to the Student Design Awards of 2024, the RSA has long celebrated innovative solutions to social and environmental challenges. Now enter RSA Spark.
The play’s the thing

Feature

18 Sep 2024

Catherine Pineo Eirini Zormpa

Could the RSA’s Playful Green Planet intervention help create a world where every child has access to nature-based play spaces?
Keep dancing!

Comment

06 Sep 2024

Barbara Berkeley-Hill

Age should be no barrier when it comes to dance. Barbara Berkeley-Hill discusses how dancing can help older generations feel younger, happier and more connected.