Reports and publications

Innovation and ideas development – a summary

1 April 2010 | Authors: Sophie Hostick-Boakye, Vicki Sellick,

This paper rounds up the work of the London Collaborative from May 2009: it includes three innovations methods, each introduced to the London Leadership Network and explored through a practical project targeting a pressing social need. The paper outlines: Highlights

Innovating better ways of living in later life: context, examples and opportunities

1 May 2010 | Authors: Carmel O’Sullivan, Diogo Vasconcelos, Geoff Mulgan,

The paper looks at the changing facts of ageing as both a challenge and an opportunity. The focus is in particular on the many ways in which societies are innovating better ways of living longer, better ways of providing support

Informing Investment in Youth Work: Measuring value and strengthening the evidence base

30 June 2011 | Authors: Bethia McNeil, Neil Reeder,

We believe that managing the transition between youth and adulthood better is vitally important in improving outcomes for young people. However there is a lack of evidence about what works in this area. Further, such evidence as exists is not

Incentive cards and behaviour change in London

30 November 2009 | Authors:

This report by the Young Foundation as part of the London Collaborative was commissioned by Capital Ambition. It considers the opportunities to influence the behaviour of Londoners though a pan-London smart card which was then subject to a wider feasibility

In and out of sync: The challenge of growing social innovations

1 September 2007 | Authors: Geoff Mulgan, Rushanara Ali,

This publication aims to provide a theoretically and empirically grounded guide for the many people involved in social innovation: innovators, funders, policy-makers and commissioners. It draws on a growing body of research on patterns of growth, and distills its conclusions

Improving Small Scale Grant Funding

15 July 2007 | Authors: Louisa Thomson,

A discussion paper, supported by The Office for Civil Society (previously referred to as The Office of the Third Sector at the time this publication was released), that brings together both domestic and international evidence to guide decisions on how

Improving pathways to employment in Loughborough Junction

5 October 2012 | Authors: Lucia Caistor-Arendar, Mandeep Hothi, Tricia Hackett,

This report is a summary of interviews, focus groups, and surveys of stakeholders and residents of Loughborough Junction carried out by the Young Foundation between March and October 2012 with funding from JPMorgan. Our research aimed to understand and map

Immigration Kickstart report

13 April 2023 | Authors:

This report explores the experiences of first and second generation immigrant British populations, and has been developed and devised by a group of young Kickstart peer research recruits.

Humanity at Work – MONDRAGON, a social innovation ecosystem case study

5 April 2017 | Authors: Mary Hodgson,

This research report on the MONDRAGON Corporation, the largest industrial Co-operative in the world, explores it as a social innovation ecosystem, a highly successful and competitive way of transforming people’s lives for the better through shared ownership. MONDRAGON is a

How to innovate: the tools for social innovation

1 December 2008 | Authors: Geoff Mulgan, Robin Murray,

This paper provides a first output from a major study, funded and in partnership with Nesta, on the methods being used to generate and grow social innovation around the world. It sets out the context for the methods project, analysing

How to Guides

1 March 2011 | Authors: John Loder, Sarah McGeehan,

This series of guides is designed to help funders and project leads to set up and sustain innovative projects across the NHS. The How to Guides draw together the material on supporting health innovation which the Young Foundation delivered and

How to Grow Social Innovation

1 September 2013 | Authors: Anna Davies,

How to grow social innovation: A review and critique of scaling and diffusion for understanding the growth of social innovation. Paper presented to the 5th International Social Innovation Research Conference, 2-4 September, 2013, Oxford.