Place Taskforce

Uniting business leaders, the voluntary sector and local authorities to share best practice from across our Pride of Place programme and tackle regional inequalities and challenges facing UK towns and cities.

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Place Taskforce purpose

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.

Business in the Community’s (BITC) Place Taskforce is a national group of leaders from the Pride of Place programme. The purpose of the Place Taskforce is to capture best practice from across our Pride of Place locations to grow our understanding of how to tackle the challenges faced in the UK’s towns and cities, elevating common challenges and the role of business in tackling regional inequalities.

Partnerships in Place: the business of levelling up

In August 2021, the Place Taskforce launched a call for evidence into the role of business in place-based regeneration. A variety of themes were explored, from what motivates business to engage in place-based regeneration and what barriers exist to how local authorities and national government can work with business to encourage engagement. This has cumulated in a set of recommendations which provide practical guidance to business, national government, and local government on the role that business can play in delivering on the ‘how’ of the levelling up white paper. These outputs form the foundations that are needed, both nationally and locally, to truly transform communities.

Read our Partnerships in Place: the business of levelling up report to learn about the foundations that are needed, both nationally and locally, to truly transform communities, and explore the Pride of Place page to find out more about our Pride of Place programme.