Where’s the rigour on the ‘S’

Civic Impact Dashboard user feedback event

1 July 2025
11:00am – 12:30pm

Join The Young Foundation’s civic impact dashboard design team to share your views and help us develop the prototype, ready for final launch at the CiviCon25 conference in October. 

Net zero can be a polarising issue – but our transition must reach everyone 

Leonie Taylor shares her reflections on the climate story in 2025.

‘A movement of hope, a movement of neighbours’

When communities feel powerless, apathy breeds. Al Mathers, Leonie Taylor and Jack Layton call for greater resources and time to ensure people can have ongoing, active roles in shaping their homes and neighbourhoods.

‘Research and innovation are about hope and empowerment’

At our Community Research Networks Away Days, Dame Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS, Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), shared a vision for a more ‘open and inclusive’ future.

Shaping the future: community research with Basingstoke residents

Community research and local consultation in Buckskin and South Ham, identifying residents’ priorities for change in the neighbourhood.  

‘Politics and profits are blocking our path to more inclusive, equal workplaces’

Building on recent research, Alice Bell says policymakers and business-leaders need to talk, think and act differently on EDI.

CiviCast: on air

Tania Carregha talks to NCIA’s John Fell about her experiences of community engagement and her research as a key delivery partner of the NCIA programme.

‘Tougher policing won’t reduce knife crime’

If politicians are serious about addressing youth violence, they urgently need to work with young people, says Chelsea McDonagh

Perspectives from a Citizen Researcher

Rebecca shares her experiences of Citizen Science work