Partners

The Institute of Place Management is excited to partner a number of placemaking, place leadership and place management organisations that work with us at Manchester Metropolitan University.

To introduce these organisations to each other and to our wider, international place community, we’ve created a listing here. Do please take time to explore the work they are doing in a range of places and get in touch with them directly if you’d like to learn more.

  • Place Marketing

    Aberdeen Inspired

    A multi award-winning leader in ensuring Aberdeen’s city centre is safe, inclusive, attractive, resilient and vibrant.

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  • Council Partnership

    Belfast City Council

    Council through the leadership and direction of our 60 elected members are leading on the development and implementation of strategies, policies, programmes and projects directed to the regeneration and growth of the city in the context of the outcomes agreed around inclusive placemaking as set out in the Community and Corporate Plans and relevant Corporate and Statutory Strategies.

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  • Place Marketing

    Cheltenham Borough Council

    A local authority with ambitious plans for place development, growth and regeneration so that all who live and work in Cheltenham’s communities can equally benefit.

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  • Create Collaborative Partnerships

    CTConsults

    Leaders in placemaking and place-marketing, offering strategic approaches for culture, heritage and tourism activation;  digital transformation; experience development and place brand.  

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  • Council Partnership

    Darlington Borough Council – Enjoy Darlington

    As a shopping destination, Darlington is second to none. We have a thriving independent business scene, as recognised when the town centre was awarded with the title of one of top independent high streets in the UK in 2023

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  • Strategic Management

    Drees & Sommer

    Leaders in strategic advisory, supporting the public sector with consulting services to develop the initial idea through to realization and management. We bring a place-making and business case-based approach to OPE projects.

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  • Advisory & Digital Consultancy

    Gutteridge Haskins & Davey Ltd (GHD)

    A global design, advisory and digital consultancy committed to creating thriving places, where communities are connected, resilient, productive and inspired.

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  • Championing Heritage

    Historic England

    Historic England is the public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England’s spectacular historic environment

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  • Create Collaborative Partnerships

    IntoPlaced Ltd

    Passionate about placemaking. Supporting Councils, communities and businesses create collaborative Partnerships, compelling Visions and shared Action Plans – making positive change happen.

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  • Architect

    Jan Kattein

    We build community through design.

    Working with stakeholders, we develop strategies and implement transformational town-centre regeneration, embedding economic, environmental, social resilience. 

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  • Digital

    Kodergarten

    We provide open data & GDPR compliant services for smart places to be able to share & compare digital metrics that matter. 

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  • Digital

    Loqiva

    Loqiva provides software to encourage community engagement, keep money within local economies and help our places to thrive

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  • Event and Entertainment Specialists

    Odin Events

    Odin Events are the UK’s Event and Entertainment Specialists. Professionally run and always fun, we are trusted to manage events by some of the best-known brands around.

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  • Health Services

    Oxford Health NHS FT

    We’re improving patient access to our services through our investment in the ‘Health on the High Street’ programme.

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  • Information Services

    The Place Coalition

    The Place Coalition is a collective of award-winning businesses, all of whom provide advice, guidance and support to the place management industry.  Each constituent business is comprised of experts in their field, with embedded experience of place management, either as practitioners, suppliers, or both. 

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  • Solutions Through Place Based Engagement

    Place Support Partnership (PSP)

    Delivering savings, support and sustainability solutions through place based engagement to businesses nationally through BIDs, Local Authorities and LEPs.

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  • Social Media

    Real5 Digital Ltd

    Real5 Digital can work with you to create and implement a placemaking social media strategy for events, high streets and shopping centres. 

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  • Community

    Save the High Street

    Industry movement changing high streets for the better. Delivering projects to empower community champions, repopulate vacant space &  supercharge local business support.

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  • Empty Shop Dressings

    Shopjacket Ltd

    Our Shopjacket treatments for empty shops enhance the ‘look and feel’ of your town centre and help encourage real businesses on to the high street.

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  • Place Marketing

    Thinking Place

    Thinkingplace is the UK’s leading place marketing and place branding specialist, having worked with over 80 places during the last 17 years.

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  • Sustainable Urban Furniture

    Vestre Ltd

    Vestre is a Norwegian supplier of sustainable urban furniture and we have helped create social meeting places for 75 years.

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  • Place Marketing

    We Are Staffordshire

    Staffordshire’s place marketing organisation putting Staffordshire on the map as the destination of choice to Live, Work, Invest, Visit and Study.

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