A Micro-Study on the Best Region to Call Home

Jan 22, 2024 | Climate Change, ESG, Food security, Wellbeing

Introduction There are emerging global and national agendas on placemaking, levelling up and wellbeing.  Investors are looking at environmental and social factors of the organisations they lend to for their ESG investments. This trend aims to improve the places where...

“Happiness by numbers” – book launch event success

Jun 21, 2023 | Wellbeing

It was great to see so many people and from such a variety of backgrounds at the event to celebrate the launch of the book “Happiness by numbers”.  Part of this variety would surely be because everyone wants to be happy, don’t they?  On top of that, in the commercial...

Levelling up metrics – the glaring gap

Apr 20, 2023 | Wellbeing

UK Government’s Levelling Up agenda aims to give ‘everyone the opportunity to flourish’. This “people” focussed aim seems to align with other emerging trends:  examples include “placemaking” [1], social value, wellbeing and the “S” part of ESG.  Whilst this is a...

Happiness By Numbers – How to measure and manage your wellbeing

Jan 18, 2023 | Wellbeing

Now available from all good bookshops chartered environmentalist (and SHIFT Managing Director) Richard Lupo’s book Happiness By Numbers. In it, Richard draws on decades of expert research to provide a science-based framework that shows how your decisions and actions...

Placemaking – DLUHC’s National Design Guide

Oct 12, 2022 | Government Strategy, Wellbeing

With the Placemaking, Levelling Up and Social Value agendas gaining more traction, SHIFT highlights the role that social landlords can play in contributing to these agendas and provides an insight into SHIFT’s Placemaking metrics. The Department for Levelling Up,...

FREE to UK social landlords – social portal for ESG

Dec 15, 2021 | Uncategorised, Wellbeing

Background We have launched the SHIFT “social” section which is FREE to all UK social landlords.  The aim of this blog is to a) explain the extent of our involvement on the “S” part of ESG reporting and b) to suggest new, meaningful placemaking metrics. SHIFT delivers...

Placemaking and Maslow

Oct 25, 2021 | Government Strategy, Wellbeing

One of the key insights we took away from National Housing Federation’s Housing Summit last week, was the prediction that the “levelling up” agenda would manifest itself as a “placemaking” agenda.  Commentators thought that political and financial resources would flow...