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Realising Ambition Programme Insights: Issue 4

Publication 17 June 2016

The Realising Ambition consortium, of which The Young Foundation was a part, produced a series of 12 Programme Insights rather than writing a long evaluation report at the end of the five-year programme. In our fourth Programme Insight, we consider

Credit where credit’s due?

Publication 24 May 2016

In 2016, over 12 million people in the UK did not have access to affordable credit. An estimated 16.8 per cent were over-indebted. In Wales, the proportion was higher in every single local authority area with three among the UK’s

The Sky’s The Limit

Publication 6 May 2016

This Gender Futures report looks at what is gender lens investing, how it generates financial return and advances gender equality and what needs to happen to build the field in the UK.

Research into the impact of Big Local: Impacts found

Repository entry 1 May 2016

Resources for Change was commissioned to undertake research “To capture the impact, achievements and learning of some of the earliest plans to be endorsed to demonstrate what the Big Local model has been able to achieve and draw out learning for other Big Local areas moving into delivery”. Additionally, the researchers investigated how area…

A Story of Leeds: Changing the world every day

Publication 26 March 2016

This report shares the stories of people from all walks of life in Leeds, learning about the deeply held values that exist in communities and hearing people’s stories of hope and transformation. It also shines a light on projects, initiatives

Realising Ambition Programme Insights: Issue 3

Publication 17 March 2016

The Realising Ambition consortium, of which The Young Foundation was a part, produced a series of 12 Programme Insights rather than writing a long evaluation report at the end of the five-year programme. In our third Programme Insight, we explore

Making Waves

Publication 16 March 2016

The Young Foundation’s Amplify programmes across cities and regions in the UK and beyond are platforms of interconnected research, community development and innovation support designed to spark new ideas for tackling structural inequalities which respond to the real, lived experiences

The community business market in 2015

Repository entry 1 March 2016

The Power to Change Research Institute commissioned Social Finance in September 2015 to provide an updated assessment of the state of the community business market. This followed Social Finance’s original report on the community business market, What If We Ran It Ourselves?, published in January 2015, based on research conducted by Social Fin…

Small and Medium Sized Charities after the Crash

Repository entry 1 February 2016

This briefing compiles evidence from two other independent reports: Navigating Change by NCVO and Too Small To Fail by IPPR North. These reports reveal that small and medium-sized charities have been hardest hit by cuts to public funding since 2008 compared to the rest of the voluntary sector. It also made clear that the damage will be most fel…

Social Network Analysis: ‘How to guide’

Repository entry 1 January 2016

The aim of social network analysis is to understand a community by mapping the relationships that connect them as a network, and then trying to draw out key individuals, groups within the network (‘components’), and/or associations between the individuals.

This guide is intended to help local areas and police forces use intelligence d…

Social Innovation Strategies – Regional Report

Publication 6 December 2015

This global report describes the situation of social innovation in various regions of the world. The regional chapters take a territorial perspective and not a policy domain perspective. To date, as far as we know there has not been a

Policy Brief: Social Innovation in Health and Social Care