Reports and research

Neighbourhood working and organisational culture

1 January 2009 | Authors:

Neighbourhood working and organisational culture: A scoping paper for the Neighbourhood Action Network. Over the last decade there has been a growing acknowledgement within local government that one of the major impediments to improving service delivery is the culture of

Neighbourhood Taskforces

1 October 2008 | Authors:

Conflict exists at all levels of society, from the most localised of settings where neighbours bicker over the height of hedges to its most extreme form, violence between nations. Tensions also exist under the surface of most communities. The root

Navigating uncertainty and remaining resilient: the experience of community businesses during Covid-19

10 December 2020 | Authors: Eve Avdoulos,

Funded by Power to Change, this Community Businesses and COVID-19 report explores the impacts of Covid-19 on community businesses in England and the ways they adapted in response. Community businesses provide support to communities all over the country. They are

Move It: increasing young people’s participation in sport

1 October 2012 | Authors: Will Norman,

Levels of physical activity in the UK are in decline and sedentary lifestyles are increasingly becoming the norm. We face an epidemic of inactivity that is costing a fortune and threatens the health and wellbeing of millions. Inactivity constitutes a

Mind and Matter: The importance of psychological needs for social policy

30 November 2008 | Authors:

This work was part of the Young Foundation’s Mapping Unmet and Emerging Needs programme. The programme brought together a coalition of more than a dozen independent foundations and funding bodies to develop new insights into how social needs in Britain

Metropolitan Social Entrepreneurs Business Booklet

24 October 2013 | Authors:

In March 2012 Metropolitan, The Young Foundation and OLMEC began working together to support migrant social entrepreneurs in London and Nottingham. We provided support to over 60 migrant social entrepreneurs and enterprises through two distinct programmes: First Steps in Social Enterprise and CLIMB (Community Level Investment

Metropolitan metrics: measuring success of a collaborative city

1 April 2009 | Authors:

The London Collaborative worked with network members and policy officers to help test and develop thinking on the benefits, use and focus of a set of London wide measures of success. The piece was intended to inform reflection on how

Meet the parents: stories of teenage pregnancy and parenthood in Lewisham

1 March 2009 | Authors: Corinne Cordes, Vicki Sellick, Will Norman,

The Young Foundation was commissioned by the London Borough of Lewisham to look at how perceptions and expectations of young people in the borough impacted on teenage pregnancy. We carried out detailed ethnographic studies to capture the experiences of young

Mapping Value in the Built Urban Environment

17 March 2006 | Authors:

The Value Mapping project was commissioned by CABE in late 2005 and was managed by the Young Foundation, drawing on a team with experience of research and practice. The project was commissioned in order to better capture less tangible things

Mapping social networks to improve public service delivery

1 July 2011 | Authors: Saffron Woodcraft,

This presentation captures the findings from a project between Neighbourhood Management in King’s Lynn, the Young Foundation and Insight 1st, working with Netform social network analysis software. The aim of the project was to use social network analysis (SNA) to

Mapping Citizen Engagement in the Process of Social Innovation

1 September 2013 | Authors: Anna Davies, Will Norman,

Over the last decade there has been a proliferation of methods and approaches to citizen engagement. From idea banks and competitions to co-creation workshops and online petitions, governments, public services and businesses are increasingly keen to garner insights and information

Mapping Britain’s Unmet Needs

12 June 2006 | Authors: Geoff Mulgan,

We were asked to look at needs in Britain by The Commission on Unclaimed Assets and give a rough assessment of the most pressing unmet needs of 60 million people, urban and rural, marginalised and empowered, rich and poor. Our