Leadership, Governance & Whole Systems Working
Enabling people to come together to define problems, co-create solutions and learn and share knowledge.
We aim to enable and provide a hub for collective understanding and action alongside the region’s partners and communities. We do this by being innovative and co-creating new approaches to working collectively to tackle social inequality in Wrexham and the North Wales region. We help enable a variety of neutral, supportive spaces where all partners can learn together about whole systems working and allow networks to work across organisational boundaries.
Here you will find a variety of collaborative working groups and projects that bring together partners to tackle the key challenges of the region.
Content Accordions
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North Wales Civic Engagement Partnership (NWCEP)
In May 2025, we launched the North Wales Civic Engagement Partnership (NWCEP) in partnership with Bangor University and supported by Medr. This partnership brings together change makers and leaders from across the region to discuss challenges and develop a plan of action to align priorities, facilitate regional collaboration, build capacity and maximise resources across the landscape.
The NWCEP is a nationally leading, innovative regional partnership, and is the first of its kind in Wales. Following the first two meetings of the NWCEP, we have developed four key areas of challenge across the region:
- lack of citizen involvement in public services
- lack of individual place ambition
- child poverty
- lack of engagement in environmental protection/
- climate change
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North Wales Public Service Lab (NWPSL)
A physical and virtual space to bring leaders together to work differently. Building capacity and capability to drive innovation around collective challenges.
- A community of systems leaders - offering training in systems leadership and building a network of systems leaders across our public sector and third sector services for the benefit of our communities and region.
- A space for conversation - providing a safe space for leadership conversations, peer support and mutual encouragement as we navigate collective challenges together.
- A commitment to being useful - supporting innovative exploration and active intervention for positive change through co-produced critical inquiry, applied research and impact evaluation.
Engage leaders across North Wales in masterclasses, promoting shared capacity and capability across all sectors to shape practice, pool resources and influence policy. A series of learning events, including Systems Leadership as a way to support change within the public sector.
Delivered a conference on Systems Leadership in February 2025 alongside Do Well, to over 70 attendees from across the region.
Hosted the ‘A Healthier, Wealthier and Fairer Wales: Working Together to Tackle Child Poverty’ conference, in partnership with the 2025 Movement, Public Health Wales, Audit Wales, Welsh Government, Well-being Economy Cymru, Future Generations Commissioner, Wales Centre for Public Policy and North Wales Civic Engagement Partnership.
Worked with Xplore! and the Public Service Boards (PSBs) to deliver Future Leaders sessions to 353 learners from 15 schools across the 6 counties in North Wales.
This work will continue through 2026 with a series of leadership days.
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2025 Movement
Social movement for change to tackle inequalities in North Wales bringing together organisations from across the region to facilitate whole system thinking and change. Nina Ruddle is Chair of the 2025 Movement.
We held the annual 2025 Movement conference in July 2024, with 70 attendees from across Wales. During this conference, we launched the ‘Year of Belonging’ for the year 2025, which has framed much of our work throughout 2025.
We hosted a ‘Supporting Autistic People in the Workplace and Beyond’ Conference in partnership with ClwydAlyn. A second conference will be held in spring 2026.
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North Wales Insight Partnership (NWIP)
A partnership of people and organisations developing and delivering innovative projects across the region, centred around the 3 key areas of research, innovation and systems change. We have achieved international recognition for our North Wales Insight Partnership work, as part of an OECD global case study.
The North Wales Insight Partnership will be launching a new bilingual, easy-to-use website. The site will share useful information such as well-being data, reports, events, and news, and will include a secure area where partners can work together. It will help people across North Wales access clear, up-to-date insight and make it easier for organisations to collaborate for the benefit of our communities.
