Lunch and Learn: Strengthening communities through place-based innovation

Innovate UK’s £60 million programme is using user-centred design to help local authorities and businesses deliver new solutions that benefit people, improve local services, and open markets for economic growth.

Join this webinar series to hear key insights from seven Net Zero Living Programme Demonstrator projects, showcasing impact, lessons learned, and how this work can be replicated and scaled across the UK and beyond.

The Pathfinder Demonstrator project presentations will explore:

· How to do net zero faster and avoid duplication

· Project successes and lessons learned

· How their work can be replicated

· How projects are scaling their initiatives

Session 1: How net zero benefits people

Citizen participation, done well, builds the mandate to act. It unlocks trust, aligns internal priorities, and ensures new products and services reflect what people actually want and need.

By positioning climate action as a strategic enabler, councils can address long-standing challenges and deliver cleaner, fairer and more prosperous communities. It becomes a practical tool for unlocking investment, improving lives and creating the conditions for local success.

This webinar will demonstrate how the Net Zero Living Programme places are making this shift, and putting people’s needs at the heart of place-based innovation.

Webinar series

This webinar is the first of four in a series. Each month we will explore how local authorities and businesses are working together to innovate net zero delivery.

· Session 1: Strengthening communities through place-based innovation, Wednesday 3 December, 12pm -1pm

· Session 2: Building capacity, creating partnerships, and leveraging data, Wednesday 7 January, 12pm -1pm

· Session 3: Scaling delivery through investible solutions, Wednesday 4 February, 12pm-1pm

· Session 4: Accelerating delivery in high impact sectors, Wednesday 11 March, 12pm -1pm

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