Saffron is responsible for the Young Foundation’s work on neighbourhoods.

She manages Neighbourhood Futures, a new programme of work with local authorities to explore the impacts of the economic downturn on neighbourhood working and community empowerment, and is leading a project exploring solutions to entrenched deprivation in very small estates.

Saffron is developing two new workstreams: Local 2.0 exploring the potential for ‘hyper-local’ or neighbourhood-based web media to support community empowerment, and Future Communities, working with local authorities, the Homes and Communities Agency and IDEA to explore practical ways for new communities to succeed as places where people want to live and work

More about Saffron
Saffron studied anthropology and development at the London School of Economics.  She joined the Young Foundation in 2005 to manage the Transforming Neighbourhoods programme. Previously she was a senior researcher at The Future Foundation working on social trend forecasting projects for the Home Office and Office of Science and Technology, and Associate Director at communications agency Cohn & Wolfe, leading research, communications and community relations programmes for public and private sector organisations. She has worked as an independent research and communications consultant in the public and voluntary sectors for Citylife, Initiative Ireland, NCH Action for Children, and UK for UNHCR.

Publications

Saffron has carried out a wide range of research and practical projects about neighbourhoods and innovation, and edited the book Transforming Neighbourhoods, published in 2007. She has contributed articles about neighbourhood governance and local government reform to Society Guardian, New Start, Public Finance, Public Service Review, The Municipal Journal and Criminal Justice Matters.

Contact:

Saffron Woodcraft on saffron.woodcraft@youngfoundation.org or call 020 8709 9271.