Press Releases
Listed below are our most recent releases. For past press releases please use the link to the right.
Can we teach resilience? Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum on Emotional Fitness
In this high profile lecture, supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust and hosted by the Macquarie Group Foundation, Brigadier General Cornum will be exploring the issue of whether resilience is a skill we can teach and explore how we might do this in the UK. The lecture will be chaired by Lord Gus Macdonald (Senior Advisor, Macquarie Group and former Government Minister)
The first quantitative survey of social investment in England finds the market small and dominated by a few large players
The social investment market in England remains small and dominated by a few large players a new survey published by the Boston Consulting Group and the Young Foundation reveals. But growth ambitions are high with 75% of social investment and finance intermediaries (SIFIs) saying they plan to expand their investment activities over the next three years.
Wanted - Social Designers to Plan Future Communities
A new profession of ‘social designers' is needed to create future sustainable communities, towns and cities according to a report published today (23 November 2011) by the Young Foundation. As government announces new plans to kick start house building in the UK, the report argues that new developments will continue to be undermined by expensive mistakes unless the knowledge and experience available within professional silos is brought together.
Charm offensive needed to counter pressure on civility
Experience of incivility shapes the way people feel about their communities and general social health more than crime statistics, according to new research. Charm Offensive, published by the Young Foundation finds that the public still cares deeply about civility and challenges the common perception that Britain has been experiencing a spiral of decline into rudeness.
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