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How Prisoners Building Homes is reducing reoffending and delivering affordable housing
Prisoners Building Homes is an award-winning initiative that tackles housing shortages, prison overcrowding and skills gaps by training prisoners to build affordable homes. The programme helps councils unlock brownfield sites, reduces reoffending, supports employment, and delivers significant social value through innovative partnerships and modern construction methods.
“How Glasgow is using play to reimagine the city centre: the "Mud Pie Economy"”
How can play help shape better cities? Councillor Ruairi Kelly reflects on how Glasgow is putting child-friendly urban design into practice, using lessons from the Urban95 programme and the city’s emerging “Mud Pie Economy” to demonstrate how play can support regeneration, public spaces and more inclusive communities.
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How is Kilkenny's Carnegie Library being reimagined through THRIVE?
Kilkenny’s historic Carnegie Library is being transformed into a vibrant local studies and cultural hub through Ireland’s THRIVE programme. Combining heritage conservation with sustainable design and community engagement, the project will revitalise the site while celebrating Kilkenny’s rich medieval past for future generations.
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