thinkingplace, the UK’s leading place branding, place marketing and place making specialist, are proud to have worked with places such as Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, Hampshire, Torbay, Hemel Hempstead, Wakefield, Lowestoft, Reading, Eccles and Gloucester.
We’re looking forward to returning to Leeds from 21st – 23rd May for this year’s UKREiiF event and are very happy to be hosting our ‘The Magic of Place’ drinks reception for the third time whilst there. This will once again be held at the fantastic Lamb & Flag pub which is less than a 5 minute walk from The Royal Armouries where UKREiiF is being held.
After a busy first day at the event, you can come and relax with us.
Chat and network with the thinkingplace team and like minded ‘place people’ from the public and private sector; the drinks, canapes and magic provided by the award winning Jason Rea are on us!
“Not just the best around here, but the best in the world.”
– Sir Alex Ferguson
To book your space at our drinks reception please send us an email by clicking HERE.
Meeting up at UKREiiF
We are the leading ‘place specialist’ in the UK and use our experience, skills and insight having worked with over 100 places to:
- bring businesses, HE/FE, community and public sector together to create and implement a shared ‘narrative’ that differentiates their place to help it compete and grow and develop its economy.
- create a new model of place leadership (at a time of austerity) where the private sector and anchor institutions have a prominent role in place marketing and becoming place ambassadors.
- help towns, cities and counties respond to the ‘Levelling Up’ and devolution agendas in a positive and place-led way.
- maximise on Government funding to regenerate town centres, such as SPF.
- unlock the economic potential of a place by highlighting and focussing on its assets, economic geography and wider spatial relationships.
- reset their place following the best practise of a shared, forward-looking place story, widened place leadership and active collaborations.
We have successfully implemented this different way of working with counties such as Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Surrey and Hampshire, cities such as Coventry, Sheffield, Nottingham and Perth, towns such as Harrogate, Harlow, Lowestoft and St Helens, and multi-place economic areas such as Oxford to Cambridge Pan Regional Partnership, Torbay, Medway and Wychavon, as well as three UK Cities of Culture, an approach that was the bedrock for their success.
Our Founding Director John Till is a mentor for the High Street Task Force programme and thinkingplace are a partner of The Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University and a member of the Institute of Economic Development, based on our best practice and experience in developing stories and collaborations for places.
If you’d like to learn more about our approach, or the places we’ve worked with in the last 18 years, and how we might be able to help you promote and develop your place then we’d be delighted to meet up at UKREiiF.
Either drop us an email at nicola.dobson@thinkingplace.co.uk or you can ring the office on 01254 779149 to arrange a meeting with one of our expert team.
Wishing you a successful UKREiiF and we look forward to seeing you there!
