Community leadership
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Creating ‘a town built on fairness’
News 30 April 2024
With a new £1.9m award from the National Lottery Community Fund, we’re building on our recent work in the Luton area, working with local communities to help overcome social, economic, and environmental challenges
Local knowledge, national potential
Publication 16 April 2024
Activity, emerging insights and lessons learned through the first six months of the UKRI-funded Community Knowledge Fund programme.
Community innovators win funding and support
News 4 October 2023
Twelve grassroots community organisations supported to ‘turn great ideas into action’ as Phase 2 of the Community Knowledge Fund delivers grants worth £50k to £100k
New fund supports knowledge creation ‘by everyone, for everyone’
News 21 September 2022
Community Knowledge Fund will help groups and organisations find solutions to local and national challenges by uncovering knowledge and turning great ideas into action.
New funding will help put communities ‘at the heart’ of research
News 20 July 2022
Acting on our research findings, in 2022 UKRI made £4m in funding available for phase one of the Community Research Networks programme, supporting local engagement in research.
Here comes the community!
Blog 13 June 2022
Today, local leaders from around the UK descend on Parliament to call for a Community Power Act. Our CEO Helen Goulden welcomes engagement with communities that increases both equality and equity.
Neighbourhood groups are here to stay, finds campaign for community power
News 13 June 2022
As research highlights the lasting power of community action, we join MPs and campaigners in Parliament to call for legislative change
Introducing the Community Power Act
Publication 13 June 2022
This proposal, supported by The Young Foundation, outlines new laws aim that could fundamentally change where power lies in this country.
Digital solutions: tech-powered responses to 21st century crises
Publication 13 June 2022
This paper explores the potential to develop digital civic infrastructure to support our national growth and drive levelling up.
‘Greater diversity among councillors matters. Here’s why.’
Blog 22 March 2022
Victoria Boelman asks what we can all do to increase the diversity of people putting themselves forward for local elections.
Time to invest in community leadership
News 9 February 2022
A report by The Young Foundation’s Chief Executive, Helen Goulden, explores the role and value of community leadership – and suggests what’s needed to support it.
‘A time to recharge, renew – and participate in your future’
Blog 19 January 2022
The Young Foundation starts 2022 with a focus on collective energy. Helen Goulden reflects on the challenges and opportunities ahead.