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Harnessing university-owned green spaces for wellbeing: evidence-informed recommendations for policymakers
Published: 2025
This paper connects key findings and recommendations emerging from the Institute for Community Studies’ research on university green spaces with current and potential policy opportunities. It outlines how policymakers and partners could work with universities and other key stakeholders, particularly estates teams, to drive access to and uses of…
Reimagining university-led climate education: evidence- informed recommendations for policymakers
Published: 2025
This paper draws on research into civic climate higher education, undertaken by the Institute for Community Studies at The Young Foundation, alongside analysis of current English climate education policy. It aims to outline new opportunities for evidence-informed civic approaches to climate education, building in the flexibility to enable each …
Community Ownership: A Way Forward for Wales
Published: 2024
This report evidences community needs and evaluates existing policies and legislation in Scotland and England, identifying strengths and weaknesses to provide lessons for future “community rights” in Wales. This research was commissioned and funded by Building Communities Trust (BCT) and undertaken by Plunkett Foundation.
Our journey to net zero: Understanding household and community participation in the UK’s transition to a greener future
Published: 2024
Our new report warns the government’s existing net zero transition policies are likely to make the poor poorer, and push struggling communities further into deprivation and exclusion.
This research – which was funded by the Nuffield Foundation and developed with the University of Leeds, University of York and Trinity College Dublin – f…
Only Reconnect
Published: 2023
A report of the ‘Reconnection Summit’ that took place in October 2022. The summit was organised by the Institute for Community Studies andTPXImpact, in partnership with Engage Britain and its ‘Grassroots Advisory Network (a group of community activists and leaders from across the UK who act as advisors on the work of Engage Britain and identify…
Transform: End of Programme Summary
Published: 2020
In 2017 Lloyds Bank Foundation established the Transform programme with the aim of influencing policy and strengthening infrastructure and innovation in the domestic and sexual abuse sectors.
It invested £1.6m to fund 16 projects which all aimed to create social change by influencing others – individuals, services and systems – to do things d…