The Young Foundation brings together insights, innovation and entrepreneurship to meet social needs. We have a track record of over 50 years' success with ventures such as the Open University, Which?, the School for Social Entrepreneurs and Healthline (the precursor of NHS Direct).
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Highlights
Social Life: Social, Sustainable & Smart Cities
Too many developments, towns and cities fail because the reality of what people and communities want and need has been neglected in their creation. Social Life is being launched with a mission to reconnect placemaking with people's everyday experience and the way that communities work.
Lottery £25M to put young people on a positive path and avoid crime
This week the Big Lottery Fund extended the Realising Ambition programme (of which the Young Foundation is a partner), to help thousands of young people avoid becoming involved in criminal activity and anti-social behaviour, by a £25m investment.
A Clegg to stand on?
Our Autumn wave interns were asked, as part of their Intern Challenge, toinvestigate the statement made by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in the Guardian newspaper in November of 2010: ‘‘Social mobility is what characterises a fair society, rather than a particular level of income equality.' With their findings fresh in mind, recent Young Foundation interns Oliver Levy, Lily Ash Sakula and Tahnia Ahmed consider Clegg's statement.
Sustainable Cities: Where are the People?
The social dimensions of sustainability are largely overlooked in debates, policy and practice around sustainable urbanism. This article, by one of the Founding Directors of new Young Foundation venture Social Life, argues it is time to put people back into the picture and develop a broader understanding of what sustainability means for cities.
Vinay Nair on the challenges of social investment in the developing world
The European Business Development manager at the Acumen Fund considers how social investment can meet social need, with a focus on the developing world.
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