The Young Foundation - a centre for social innovation

Social Needs

Mapping Needs

Outstretched hand

Mapping emerging and unmet needs is a two-year research programme, aiming to develop new insights into how the Britain's unmet and emerging needs can be prioritised and met.

Nightlife

Map of london

There are over 1 million people regularly working night shifts in the UK. These are people that keep our cities and infrastructures running

Older Work

Mapping Rural Needs

Countryside scene

One fifth of people in the UK live and work in rural areas - The Young Foundation has created a holistic map of Britain and Ireland’s rural social needs.

Positional Goods

Positional Goods project

A project designed to understand modern trends in material consumption, celebrity lifestyles and ‘luxury fever’ as well as the slow decline in happiness levels.