Systems and place-based change

Links and resources

As part of our 2025 Strategy Refresh, we’re taking a deeper look at systems and place-based change, and what these mean for our future strategy, collaboration and collective action.

On this page you’ll find resources, blogs and links to further reading. If you know of resources that would help increase our collective knowledge, understanding and impact in this area, we’d love to hear from you! Let us know at info@faireducation.org.uk.

Driving Systems Change Together

A brave workshop framing the theme of the 2024 Fair Education Summit with our CEO, Gina Cicerone. We take a systemic view, looking at change through structural, relationship and value lenses.

The Water of Systems Change

This report from FSG outlines how organisations involved in systems change can increase their odds for success by focusing on the least explicit but most powerful conditions for change, while also turning the lens on themselves.

The Water of Systems Change aims to clarify what it means to shift these conditions. We offer the “inverted triangle” framework as an actionable model for funders and others interested in creating systems change, particularly those who are working to advance equity.

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