Festival of Place: Social impact 2025

Start date: 24 March 2025
End date: 25 March 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Online via Airmeet
Third-party event
Group of four young people cultivating flowers on a sunny summer day.

This online conference brings together professionals seeking to make a measurable and positive place-based impact through their work in design, development, planning and investment.

In multiple sessions delivered over long lunches, we will focus on metrics, measurement, case studies and evidence-based approaches to delivering social value in UK places.

Sessions include:

  • Chinyelu Oranefo, Director of Sustainability & ESG Finance, Lloyds Bank: Adopting the lens of a just transition and assessing social risk in the context of sustainable and ESG finance, as well as the retrofitting of social housing and the National Wealth Fund.
  • Alexandra Notay, Chair, Radix Big Tent Housing Commission: Unlocking social impact through affordable and quality housing – overcoming barriers in the market
  • Matthew Morgan, Director and Co-Founder, Quality of Life Foundation: Assessing the social impact of Built to Rent development: Presenting the findings of resident and community evaluations at three flagship BTR projects in London
  • Holly Bruce, Councillor for Langside, Glasgow City Council: Feminist planning: Gender mainstreaming to prevent violence against women and girls

[Tickets are costed. Please pre-book your place(s).]