All Reports
Breakthrough Cities (June 2009)
Young Foundation/British Council report on creativity and social innovation in cities
Bridging the Gap:
The London Olympics 2012 and South Asian - owned Businesses in Brick Lane and Green Street (July 2006)
Building resilient communities (January 2011)
A Young Foundation analysis of how Wiltshire Council can better support vulnerable families and help communities help themselves.
Capital Ambition Guide to Behaviour Change
Can public agencies succeed in changing individual behaviour to make society greener, healthier, more caring, less anti-social?
Capital Ideas (July 2010) - with the Center for American Progress
How to generate innovation in the public sector
Cities in Transition (December 2006)
A report on the economic and social transformations in our cities - The Global Exchange Forum 2006.
Cohesive Communities
The benefits of effective partnership working between local government and the voluntary and community sector
Danger and Opportunity (September 2009)
This publication is part pf the social innovator series on methods and issues in social innovation and argues that the new social economy emerging in the present century will be led by social innovation.
Exploring household resilience in Teeside (January 2010)
This work is part of the Young Foundation's Mapping Unmet and Emerging Needs project, which culminated in the release of Sinking and swimming: understanding Britain's unmet needs report.
Fixing the Future (April 2010)
This paper is about how to mitigate the recession, and, where possible, turn crisis into opportunity. It has been prepared to provide a framework for thinking and action.
Going green and beating the blues (December 2009)
Can wellbeing and sustainability agendas be mutually reinforcing? This report looks at how local approaches can improve wellbeing and environmental sustainability.
Good Neighbours (July 2007)
Housing associations could do more to work with local authorities to give their residents a voice in local communities and neighbourhoods.
Growing social ventures (February 2011)
The role of intermediaries and investors: who they are, what they do, and what they could become
Helping or Hindering - Meeting Young People's Needs in Bedford (January 2010)
This report is part of the Needs project and focuses on the needs of young people in Bedford.
How to develop a local charter: A guide for local authorities (January 2008)
This guide draws together the rationale for developing a charter, steps to implementing a charter, a troubleshooting guide and plenty of case studies.
How to Guide No.1 - Find and Select the Best Innovations
This is the first in a series of five How To ... Guides developed to help funders and project leads to set up and sustain innovative projects across the NHS.
How to Guide No.2 - Contract, Monitor and Evaluate Innovations
This is the second in a series of five How To ... guides developed to help funders and project leads to set up and sustain innovative projects across the NHS.
How to Guide No.3 - Generating Economic Evidence for Innovation
This is the third in a series of five How To ... guides developed to help funders and project leads to set up and sustain innovative projects across the NHS.
How to Guide No.4 - Design and Deliver Support to Innovations
This is the fourth in a series of five How To ... guides developed to help funders and project leads to set up and sustain innovative projects across the NHS.
Improving Small Scale Grant Funding (July 2007)
A discussion paper on how financial support should best be provided to local, voluntary and community organisations.
In and out of sync: The challenge of growing social innovations (Sept 2007)
A joint Young Foundation and NESTA report on how social innovations spread and grow.
Innovation and value: new tools for local government in tough times
This is the first report from our work in progress on innovation and efficiency. It looks at how local government can think creatively about innovation against the backdrop of the need for rigorous efficiencies.
Innovation for the Public Good: The Five Keys to Innovation
Ask a passerby to name an innovative organization and a familiar list soon appears: Apple, 3M, Google, eBay, etc. Less known are the innovative agencies in the public sector focused on finding new and better ways to tackle social issues such as crime, poverty, and educational underachievement. Vicki Sellick writes the latest installment of a weekly column on government innovation produced by the Young Foundation in partnership with the Centre for American Progress
Learning Journeys (March 2011)
A review of lessons learned from The Youth of Today Youth leadership fund
Lighting the touchpaper: Growing the Market for Social Investment in England
By Will Norman of the Young Foundation and Adrian Brown from The Boston Consulting Group.
Living Alone in Later Life (January 2003)
This report examines the experience of living alone in later life and the way in which social relationships are organised now is significantly different than in the past.
Local democracy and neighbourhood governance - Paul Hilder (July 2006)
This report explores how neighbourhood governance can underpin the wider system of local democracy in the future.
Local Wellbeing: Can We Measure It? (September 2008)
How can wellbeing be measured at the local level in ways which are both robust and useful to local authorities and its strategic partners?
Making the most of local innovations. (November 2007)
An interim report on Local Social Innovation by the Young Foundation and NESTA.
Mapping Britains unmet needs (June 2006)
A report commissioned by the Commission on Unclaimed Assets on mapping Britains unmet needs.
Mapping Rural Needs in Britain and Ireland (March 2007)
A report which maps unmet rural needs in Britain and Ireland. This report draws on both original research and on the Mapping Britain’s Needs report produced earlier this year.
Mapping value in the built Environment (March 2006)
CABE commissioned the Young Foundation to carry out a review of value assessment methodologies
Measuring Family Support in Europe (January 2007)
This collection is of interest to any researcher concerned with developing their own concepts and tools for assesing family solidarities and commitments.
More than good ideas: the power of innovation in local government (March 2009)
This collection encapsulates some of the thinking around public sector innovation to help stimulate further thought, discussion and the sharing of next practice.
Neighbourliness + Empowerment = Wellbeing: Is there a formula for happy communities? (June 2008)
How does active citizenship contribute to the wellbeing of communities?
Never Again: avoiding the mistakes of the past (January 2010)
This first discussion paper from our Future Communities Programme focuses on the ways in which new housing developments can become sustainable communities.
Opening Doors to Apprenticeships
This report considers the practical next steps that need to be taken in order to better understand disadvantage and/or disengagement from Apprenticeships.
Opening doors to apprenticeships
Reaching young people who are disadvantaged or disengaged from apprenticeships.
Parenting and Wellbeing: knitting families together (September 2009)
Parenting and wellbeing: knitting families together argues that parenting support often fails because it ignores the wellbeing of parents themselves.
Parties for the Public Good (October 2006)
This publication sets out a 'new deal' in how best to reconnect political parties with the public.
Plugged in, untapped: Using digital technologies to help young people learn to lead. (September 2010)
How can we tap into the leadership potential of young people who are plugged in to digital technologies? This report looks at the benefits and limitations of these resources and provides practical recommendations to policy makers
Public services and civil society working together (March 2010)
Promising ideas for effective local partnerships
Receding Tide: Understanding unmet needs in a harsher economic climate (January 2009)
This interim Needs report warns of the invisible psychological damage of the recession.
Scaling New Heights (July 2010) - with the Center for American Progress
How to spot small successes in the public sector and make them big.
Shaping and measuring progress: new directions in using knowledge to achieve social goals (June 2007)
Read Geoff Mulgan's report at the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
Signing on: Experiences of worklessness in Birmingham
What's it like to be out of work? Our most recent study of worklessness tracks what it's really like to be a job seeker in one of the toughest job markets in decades, and suggests ways the government's new Single Work Programme could avoid the errors of the past and make a real difference to communities.
Sinking and swimming: understanding Britain's unmet needs (December 2009)
Based on new analysis of statistical data, case studies, surveys and hundreds of conversations with people across Britain, the study shows where the most acute needs are and how they interrelate.
Social Innovation: what it is, why it matters, how it can be accelerated (March 2007)
This report examines how social innovation happens in NGOs, the public sector, movements, networks and markets.
Social Silicon Valleys (March 2006)
Social innovations - new ideas that work to meet pressing unmet needs - are all around us. This book examines how social innovation happens in NGOs, the public sector, movements and markets.
Social Venturing (July 2009)
This publication is part pf the social innovator series on methods and issues in social innovation and focuses on how to establish and grow a social venture.
Stuck on London's hard shoulder: Social needs in a fast moving city (December 2010)
London is one of the wealthiest cities on the planet, but also suffers from serious levels of poverty and unemployment. This case study looks in detail at poverty in London, as well as the problems of isolation and blocked opportunities.
Study on Social Innovation
The financial and economic crisis makes creativity and innovation in general and social innovation in particular even more important to foster sustainable growth, secure jobs and boost competitiveness. This paper sets out the current position, policies, programmes and future options for promoting social innovation in Europe.
Taking the lead - Youth leadership in theory and practice (October 2009)
What is youth leadership? This report asks how best we can support and nurture the development of young leaders.
Taking the temperature of local communities (October 2010)
As public resources shrink it is more important than ever that local areas have ways to think clearly about their priorities and needs.
The Collaborative City: Future Scenarios (March 2008)
This paper includes the six scenarios developed as part of the early London Collaborative work.
The Collaborative City: Future Trends (March 2008)
This report offers an overview of the evidence used to develop our six scenarios of the future of London.
The Collaborative City: Working together to shape London's future (March 2008)
This joint report launched the London Collaborative to stakeholders.
The End of Regeneration? Improving what matters on small housing estates (April 2010)
This new toolkit aims to encourage a different approach to the entrenched problems on small housing estates.
The London Collaborative: State of Play (June 2008)
This short document was produced at the start of the London Collaborative programme to provide an overview.
The Open Book of Social Innovation (March 2010)
This publication is part pf the social innovator series on methods and issues in social innovation and is about the many ways in which people are creating new and effective answers to the challenges of our times.
The potential for neighbourhood involvement in service delivery (July 2006)
A discussion about the potential for communities to play a significant role in designing, planning and delivering local public services.
The Role of Private Equity in Social and Sustainable Development (March 2008)
This Young Foundation report focuses on private equity and sustainable development.
The Youth of Today Youth Leadership Fund: In Numbers (June 2011)
The reach and effectiveness of the fund explained
Thinking about Apprenticeships (July 2009)
This report explores apprenticeships and how it impacts employers, parents and young people in Hertfordshire, Manchester and South Tyneside local authorities.
This is European Social Innovation
This report identifies and highlights some of the most promising innovative initiatives across Europe
To move or not to move?
This report explores the residential relocation behaviour of older people in Wales.
Tools and processes for neighbourhood problem solving (February 2006)
This report reviews the role of neighbourhood charters and calls for action in a repertoire of practical tools for neighbourhood problem-solving.
Transformers: How local areas innovate to address changing social needs (January 2008)
This joint report by the Young Foundation and NESTA investigates why some places innovate more effectively to meet social needs than others.
Transforming Neighbourhoods: Lessons from Local Work in Fifteen Areas (October 2007)
This report summarises the lessons learned from the Transforming Neighbourhoods Programme.
Turning the Corner: Beyond incarceration and re-offending (August 2010)
Recent political and economic upheavals have opened up opportunities for more radical reform of the justice system. But reformers have struggled to come up with proven alternatives to incarceration which are cost effective, progressive and able to secure public confidence.
Valuing Family, Valuing Work: British Muslim Women and the Labour Market (October 2008)
This report, written by Zamila Bunglawala, was launched on Monday 24 November.
Ward councillors and community leadership: A future perspective (November 2007)
A study for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation into the future role of ward councillors.
Weathering the storm - Negotiating Transitions in Britain Today (January 2010)
This report explores what helps make a successful transition and how best to support the most vulnerable.
What is the Role of the Community in Neighbourhood Governance? (May 2006)
A report summarising the main points of discussion from a seminar about the role for community organisations in neighbourhood governance.
Wide Open (April 2005)
This report was written by Geoff Mulgan, Tom Steinberg and Omar Salem.
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