This Living Place

This Living Place supports rural communities in Somerset and Dorset to collaborate, strengthen local networks and create regenerative, community-led futures.
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About

We formed as a community interest company in early 2024 to do what’s often overlooked — deeply listen to the people, land and patterns of our place.What we found was both inspiring and urgent: a vibrant ecosystem of action and care, but fragmented and under-resourced.This Living Place exists to reconnect that web — building the relational, cultural and systemic infrastructure rural communities need to thrive.

Vision

A reciprocal tapestry of joyful, creative and equitable rural places – where communities work collectively to steward thriving ecosystems, economies and cultures of care.

Mission

Together with our rural community, we design and nurture the conditions for deep systemic and relational change; weaving care, connection and agency into resilient, place-rooted pathways towards equitable and regenerative futures.

What We Do

We’re transforming the cultural, relational and systemic conditions that shape life in rural places.

  • Relational Infrastructure – We build trust and connection between people, projects, and places. Through convening and collaboration, we strengthen the social fabric that allows ideas, energy, and care to flow — turning relationships into collective action.
  • Cultural Infrastructure – We nurture shared meaning and belonging. Through storytelling, creativity, and exchange, we surface local wisdom, celebrate overlooked gifts, and grow a culture of care, courage, and stewardship.
  • Systemic Infrastructure – We design the conditions for lasting change. By mapping systems, supporting networks, and embedding participatory processes, we help communities organise in more democratic, regenerative, and place-rooted ways.

Our work weaves four threads of change

1. Living Spaces & Places: Reconnecting people and place through community journeys.
2.Living Culture & Narratives: Nurturing belonging, stewardship culture and regenerative narratives.
3.Living Networks & Movements: Connecting practitioners and communities for collective impact.
4.Living Systems & Flows: Redesigning how power, wealth and knowledge move through place.

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