Maps | Mapping for Change

Mapping for Change see maps as tools which can facilitate dialogue, analysis and action. Our services are grounded in over 15 years’ experience in participatory mapping and community engagement. We have used maps to support community groups, commercial organisations, public sector and government initiatives, and academic research.

We can use maps to help to address virtually any topic. From collecting evidence about environmental problems, visualising and analysing complex spatial information, or involving your community in a local initiative, we can develop maps to assist you and your organisation.

Mapping for Change produce different map styles across various mediums to suit our clients’ needs. Depending on the requirements of your organisation, our work can involve designing and developing a unique online participatory platform, or simply bringing a community together around a paper map. Whatever your requirements, we have the skills and experience necessary to help you accomplish your goal.

Our expertise in online web development and offline social engagement means that we can find the right approach for you.

Community and Voluntary Groups

Community and voluntary groups use our mapping services to document issues which affect them and their local area, share information about what is going on locally, and involve other nearby groups in their activities.

View our Information sheet for further information.

Commercial Organisations

As a business, your organisation can use maps to trace the impacts of your services, gather community perceptions of your work, or engage people from the local area in your outcomes.

View our Information Sheet for further information.

Mapping for Change see maps as tools which can facilitate dialogue, analysis and action. Our services are grounded in over 15 years’ experience in participatory mapping and community engagement. We have used maps to support community groups, commercial organisations, public sector and government initiatives, and academic research.
We can use maps to help to address virtually any topic. From collecting evidence about environmental problems, visualising and analysing complex spatial information, or involving your community in a local initiative, we can develop maps to assist you and your organisation.
Mapping for Change produce different map styles across various mediums to suit our clients’ needs. Depending on the requirements of your organisation, our work can involve designing and developing a unique online participatory platform, or simply bringing a community together around a paper map. Whatever your requirements, we have the skills and experience necessary to help you accomplish your goal.
Our expertise in online web development and offline social engagement means that we can find the right approach for you.
Community and Voluntary Groups

Community and voluntary groups use our mapping services to document issues which affect them and their local area, share information about what is going on locally, and involve other nearby groups in their activities.

View our Information sheet for further information.

Commercial Organisations

As a business, your organisation can use maps to trace the impacts of your services, gather community perceptions of your work, or engage people from the local area in your outcomes.

View our Information Sheet for further information.
- Evaluating People Zones Leicestershire
  Through engaging residents in an Asset-Based Community Development Approach, our research for People Zones Leicestershire generated lasting resources which helped identify opportunities for hyper localised community initiatives. Now, we’re returning to evaluate the program’s impact, aiming to provide concrete evidence of its effectiveness in reducing crime and promoting community well-being.
- We Care for Our Air Redbridge
- UP2030: Urban Planning and design ready for 2030
- People Zones Leicestershire
- Gypsy and Traveller history and heritage in London
- Science in the City 2
  The City of London Corporation and Mapping for Change are teaming up once again to conduct a citizen science project to monitor air quality in the capital city and evaluate the recent changes made in the area. The project will seek to understand the impacts that public participation and citizen science have on environmental issues.
- InSPIRES
  InSPIRES is a EU-funded project which aims to address the information gap that vulnerable demographics can hold about the impact that air pollution has on their health. Mapping for Change works with a school in London, whereby parents and pupils will have the opportunity to monitor particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide pollution levels in and around their homes.
- Planting Healthy Air in Schools
  Mapping for Change is working with pupils and teachers to monitor nitrogen dioxide levels around each school using citizen science. Together, we have installed diffusion tubes at 10 locations around the school which will be changed over by the EcoClub every month for 12 months.
- Kampala NOSES; Network for Odour Sensing Empowerment and Sustainability.
  Kampala NOSES is a pilot project that seeks to introduce novel ways with which to monitor and record odour issues across Kampala. All key stakeholders, from policy-makers to public sector administrators, from academics to industries and the community at large are needed to create a longer-term vision of implementing new environmental reporting and governance mechanisms.
- CIVACT - Promoting civic engagement among youth through district development
  CIVACT is a EU-funded, two-year project which aims to address the lack of civic engagement among hard-to-reach youths in urban areas. The goal is to understand how can we empower young people to become the driving force for change through observing and analysing their neighbourhood’s resources and challenges.
- D-NOSES - Tackling Odour Pollution Across Europe
  D-NOSES is a three-year EU funded research project which aims to provide a solution to the largely neglected issue of odour pollution, changing the traditional top-down approach for a bottom-up one. The lack of regulation from authorities around odour pollution is mainly due to it being difficult to reliably measure and the potential solutions being costly to implement.
- Mapping the Pathway to Equalities
  There are around 30,000 Gypsies and Travellers in London. Their culture and traditions have developed through a nomadic way of life over centuries. However, across the country the community face an uncertain future. With some of the poorest social outcomes of any group in Britain the burgeoning cuts to public services will have a disproportionate effect on the community.
- Love Lambeth Air
  Love Lambeth Air provided local people with the materials and support required to collect measurements for nitrogen dioxide across a number of streets in Lambeth, providing a detailed picture of air quality in their local area.
- Design for Wellbeing
  Design for Wellbeing is a multidisciplinary research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The project aims to investigate ‘community severance’; the concept that major transport infrastructure, such as busy roads, can negatively influence elderly people’s physical and psychological wellbeing, by segregating their community and restricting their mobility.
- MyAccessible.EU
  MyAccessible.EU is a three year research project funded by the European Commission. It aims to make cities’ built environment more accessible for disabled and older people by challenging social attitudes, raising awareness and delivering assistive mobile applications. These mobile applications will provide tools for collectively gathering and sharing information about accessibility of public spaces.
- Eco21.PL
  Funded under the Swiss Block Grant, Mapping for Change in collaboration with the Centre for Training and Personal Development MERITUM, the Cultural Authority City of Gardens and Highways 4 Elements carried out a two year training programme in the Silesia region of Poland.
- Active CiTizenship and Social Housing (ACtS)
  As part of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme, Mapping for Change were chosen to represent the UK in a learning exchange project with the University of Udine (Italy) and the University of Oulu (Finland).
- How to Spend a Million? Northfleet Big Local Trust
  In 2012, the Big Lottery Fund in England invested £1 million in 150 neighbourhoods for its Big Local initiative. Northfleet, Kent, was one of the first 50 to be selected. The grant aimed to equip local communities with skills and tools to identify key areas and issues where action was reqiored in their area.
- Hackney Wick Community Map
  Hackney Wick is a community situated on the boundary of the 2012 Olympic Park within the London Borough of Hackney. Hackney Wick is just one of the many communities facing considerable change as a result of major development and regeneration plans. Developments to the Olympic site resulted in the loss of facilities used by local residents, such as the local playing field and allotments. There was continued mixed sentiment about the development and the legacy which they were to inherit.