The tools — and the courage — to act together.
Recurve builds the coalitions, academies and bridges that help place leaders turn public spending, capital and talent into resilient, prosperous and hope-filled communities. Six live ways in. Start with the one that fits where you're heading.
Six ways to turn ambition into action.
Each one meets a live challenge places are working on right now, and gives you a way forward. Pick the route that fits, and take the next step.
Alliance for Purposeful Procurement
The UK spends £434bn a year through public procurement, and the policy to use it strategically is finally in place: the Procurement Act 2023 and the National Procurement Policy Statement. The opportunity now is to move the system out of 'Safe Mode', so that public spending builds the economy rather than simply satisfying the rules.
The Alliance for Purposeful Procurement is the coalition making that spend count, for economic resilience, SME growth and sovereign capability. It's built for the framework operators, govtech, procurement-law and data firms and impact investors whose growth depends on a better system, shaping the reform agenda from the front. Built on the State of Procurement Report, with Bloom.
Impact for Places Academy
There's £106bn of impact capital under management looking for local routes to real outcomes, and more places ready to put it to work. The opening for directors of strategy and service delivery is to build the mobilisation mindset: the capability, connectivity and confidence to crowd that capital in, alongside peers doing the same.
The Impact for Places Academy builds exactly that, in practice: four immersive sessions across 2027, applied to your own live priorities in between. For leaders in authorities and anchor institutions, and the impact-economy professionals who partner them. A Recurve and AchieveGood programme, powered by the Impact Economy Collective.
Join the next cohort → A UK IDG programme · recruiting for Jan 2027Innovation Ecosystem Academy
A university, a hospital, land, ambition: plenty of places already hold the ingredients of an innovation ecosystem. The opportunity is to turn those assets into a living ecosystem, with partners aligned behind one strategy and a story investors and government can back.
The Innovation Ecosystem Academy helps you make that move: three intensive days together plus a day tailored to your place, hosted inside places that have already done it. A UK Innovation Districts Group programme, delivered by Recurve and Fern Consulting. Cohort one starts January 2027. Join the waiting list to be first in line.
Join the waiting list → One-day workshopLeading Beyond Boundaries
The changes that move a place furthest are rarely the technical fixes. They're the adaptive challenges no single team owns, and they shift when leaders are equipped to work across the boundaries between them.
Leading Beyond Boundaries is a one-day workshop that helps leaders and teams tell the adaptive challenges from the technical ones, and design safe-to-fail experiments to move on what matters most. It's the simplest way to work with Recurve, and the way into the deeper programmes.
Book a workshop → With the Impact Investing InstituteMobilise
Patient, purpose-driven capital is looking for places to back, and it needs a proposition it can invest in at scale. The opportunity is to move from deal-by-deal to a single, portfolio-wide investment case for your whole region.
Mobilise is the applied programme that gets you there, built around your own live portfolio, with the Impact Investing Institute alongside you throughout. First shaped with Cardiff Capital Region.
Explore Mobilise for your place →UK–LatAm Investment Bridge
Latin America holds around $9.2tn in private wealth, and a growing appetite for stable, purpose-driven returns beyond its own borders. Almost none of it reaches UK regions outside London today. The opportunity is to open that route.
The UK–LatAm Investment Bridge is the first structured pathway channelling Latin American capital into UK regional economies: a two-sided bridge between places with investable pipelines and investors seeking place-based return. A joint venture with Acacias Capital.
Tell us what you're working on.
We'll point you to the right route. Whichever initiative drew you here, the next step is the same: a short conversation about where your place is heading, and how we can help.
Book a conversation →Prefer email? sam.markey@recurve.co