Our Story
Positive Placemakers CIC began in 2019, with a group of individuals who passionately believed in the notion that culture can transform lives and spaces, help communities to thrive, while also regenerating towns and enhancing local placemaking.
Our Offer
Are you looking to develop a cultural vision, developed in partnership with your community or a cultural programme that will animate spaces, increase local ownership and improve access to arts, culture and heritage? Do you want to develop a local facility, archive, a heritage or arts festival, a youth theatre or a capital programme to improve the public realm?
Whether you want us to start at the beginning with a blank sheet of paper or deliver your brief, we can help!
All of our work is co designed and developed with your community to create ownership and long term sustainability. Local placemaking, conversation and engagement is at the core of what we do to enable us to create inclusive, local, programmes and better ownership of your buildings, public spaces and parks.
Get in touch to discuss your idea and let’s see if we can make something amazing happen!
Our Portfolio
Positive Placemakers have worked with a number of organisations to deliver a wide variety of programmes. We can plan and deliver local engagement, provide wellbeing opportunities that celebrate and raise awareness of heritage. Our projects develop individuals’ creativity and increase skills, while delivering high quality innovative programmes that result in significant social impact and the transformation of spaces.
Meet The Team
Positive Placemakers CIC has three directors each brings with them a wealth and experience and expertise in their specialist fields.
Helen Juste
Helen Juste has over twenty-five years’ experience in cultural development, improving access to arts, culture and heritage. She works with organisations and communities to help them develop aspirations, create visions and deliver programmes of work to make them a reality. Helen is highly experienced in creating consortiums, new networks, cultural facilities and public realm improvement programmes. Securing the funding and resources to achieve the identified outcomes.
Helen has facilitated procurement programmes that have resulted in strong community ownership. Securing creative professionals who have delivered fantastic engagement programmes, that delivered site-specific, high-quality work. She has overseen programmes that have transformed spaces, connected communities, delivered exceptional opportunities for individuals and improved civic pride.
Her passion and enthusiasm is infectious, as well as her belief that culture is central to helping communities thrive, not just survive.
Mike Glover
Mike Glover is the organisations heritage expert and is also a director of Northwest Heritage CIC and a trustee of Lathom Park Trust.
He is passionate about revealing the story of place and how it can be brought alive for future generations. Protecting heritage by improving existing archives or developing new ones, working in partnership with local heritage organisations and helping them realise their aspirations.
Making local heritage accessible to new generations through performance, exhibitions, festivals, temporary installations and digital animations.
Demonstrating how heritage can regenerate places, help celebrate their unique identity, and enthuse local communities.
Ruth Owen
Ruth Owen has over twenty years’ experience within the cultural sector. This work has included curating exhibitions, working with artists to develop national touring exhibitions and commissioning new work for both heritage and contemporary art shows. Ruth is an experienced educator, who has delivered educational services to schools and the wider community. She has also developed Dig Deep Learning, an exceptional resource for schools, increasing access to heritage, arts and culture.
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Funders & Commisioners
Our projects have been funded or commisioned by:
