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Watch the video: Talking transitions
Blog 10 November 2021
The Young Foundation’s Institute for Community Studies hears the climate change concerns and priorities of people around the UK.
In the fight for climate change, everyone has something to contribute
Blog 9 November 2021
We need both technology and human partnerships to tackle the climate crisis, says activist Daze Aghaji
Two thirds of UK public believe communities will be ‘left behind’ as we tackle the climate crisis
News 4 November 2021
A new poll exploring public understanding of issues around climate change finds that almost two thirds of UK residents (64%) are not confident the government will achieve its net zero 2050 target without ‘leaving behind’ any parts of the country or local communities. “We want to develop a deep and
Beyond the ‘blah, blah, blah’: we need a new kind of climate activism
Blog 4 November 2021
Helen Goulden reflects on people power and partnership as tools for change – and says the cacophony around COP26 speaks volumes.
Empowering Places – Change Framework
Repository entry 1 November 2021
This is a working ‘change framework’ for the Empowering Places programme – a five-year programme designed to empower communities to build community businesses. The framework sets out the desired vision and outcomes of the programme, as well as pointing to the elements of the programme that enable progress towards the vision and outcomes. …
How to enable Community-Led Housing: Learning Brief 1 – Enabling and catalysing community-led housing
Repository entry 1 November 2021
As part of the ongoing evaluation of Power to Change’s Homes in Community Hands programme, this learning brief shares key insights on how to enable community-led housing. It draws on evidence from five enabler hubs funded through the programme in 2020-21, revealing how hubs are building an environment in which community-led can grow. This bri…
How to enable Community-Led Housing: Learning Brief 2 – Building Positive Relationships with Hub Stakeholders
Repository entry 1 November 2021
As part of the ongoing evaluation of Power to Change’s Homes in Community Hands programme, this learning brief shares key insights on how to enable community-led housing. It draws on evidence from five enabler hubs funded through the programme in 2020-21, revealing how hubs are building an environment in which community-led can grow. This bri…
Leading to Net Zero – Evidence review of communities pioneering low carbon standards
Repository entry 1 November 2021
The consultancy firm Hoyle and Dean was commissioned by the Community Land Trust Network to undertake a “soft touch” review of the approach various community-led housing development teams take towards sustainability and carbon reduction for housing developments within their operating areas. The purpose of the review was to find the overall …
Levelling the land: Social investment and ‘left behind’ places
Repository entry 1 November 2021
Local Trust commissioned independent advisor and researcher Dan Gregory to explore whether social investment in its current forms could support the regeneration of the most deprived or ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods across the country or, as our experience with the Big Local programme was suggesting, new models were needed, and if so, what th…
Rapid research COVID-19 Briefing #15: Community responses to COVID-19 – Changing community needs and looking to the future
Repository entry 1 November 2021
The pandemic has been accompanied by a searching analysis of its multi-faceted challenges, uneven consequences and intensifying social needs. Looking ahead, it is thought that a ‘long shadow’ of impact will be cast over the coming ‘COVID decade’. But how are needs experienced at community level identified and understood? This briefing a…
Routes into community influence
Repository entry 1 November 2021
This project was carried out by a team of Community Researchers in Lawrence Hill, Bristol between May-August 2021, with support from Wellspring Settlement’s Economic Resilience and Community Inclusion teams and researchers from the University of Bristol. The project was funded by the UKRI QR Strategic Priorities Fund, administered by the Univ…
Understanding vaccine hesitancy through communities of place
Repository entry 1 November 2021
A new UK-US collaborative study examining vaccine engagement highlights the importance of tapping into local knowledge and leadership in efforts to improve Covid-19 vaccine take-up.
The research was funded by the British Academy, the Social Science Research Council, and the UK’s Science and Innovation Network in the&…
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