Reports and research

Study on Social Innovation for the Bureau of European Policy Advisors

1 March 2011 | Authors: Geoff Mulgan, Louise Pulford,

“The financial and economic crisis makes creativity and innovation in general and social innovation in particular even more important to foster sustainable growth, secure jobs and boost competitiveness.” José Manuel Barroso, BEPA Workshop on ‘Europe and Social Innovation’ 20th January

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

Rough Nights: The Growing Dangers of Working at Night

1 March 2011 | Authors: Will Norman,

This report explores the lives of those people who work at night: the men and women who keep our hospitals open, clean our offices, allow us to cancel lost credit cards, serve us drinks in a club or drive us

Signing on: Experiences of worklessness in Birmingham

1 December 2010 | Authors: Corinne Cordes, Sarah Hewes, Vicki Sellick, Will Norman,

This report maps the journeys of Birmingham residents seeking work in the second half of 2010 and reflecting on their experiences, makes recommendations for how employability support could be changed in the future – both to improve the rate of

Charm Offensive: Cultivating Civility in 21st Century Britain

1 December 2010 | Authors: Carmel O’Sullivan, Phoebe Griffith, Rushanara Ali, Will Norman,

Civility can seem like an old fashioned concept and the British public tends to think we are on a spiral of decline when it comes to everyday politeness. This report, co-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and

Learning in Company: Designing The U

1 December 2010 | Authors: Genevieve Maitland Hudson,

The U’s founding belief was that engaging training in a range of useful skills such as first aid, saving energy and intervening safely to defuse conflict will encourage more effective responses to social challenges by citizens who participate in The

Building resilient communities

1 December 2010 | Authors: Catherine Russell, Nicola Bacon, Nina Mguni, Vicki Sellick,

In Summer 2010, the Young Foundation worked with Wiltshire County Council to develop new approaches to improve wellbeing and transform service delivery by removing the duplication that can arise where citizens interact with multiple agencies. The Young Foundation worked with

Taking the temperature of local communities: The Wellbeing and Resilience Measure (WARM)

1 November 2010 | Authors: Nicola Bacon, Nina Mguni,

As public resources shrink it is more important than ever that local areas have ways to think clearly about their priorities and needs. WARM is a new tool that has been developed to make the most of existing data about

This is European Social Innovation

1 November 2010 | Authors: Louise Pulford,

The Euclid and SIX networks, with the support of the Social Innovation Park in Bilbao, Spain, and the European Commission published This is European Social Innovation – a call for inspiring stories. The financial and economic crisis after 2008 made

Social Impact Bonds in Health

1 October 2010 | Authors: John Loder,

Social Impact Bonds are a potentially very powerful instrument for creating change and improvement. This short paper describes the basic structure of social impact bonds, why they might be useful for the public sector, and some of the issues that

Innovations in Health: Approaches from the Regional Innovation Funds

1 October 2010 | Authors: Geoff Mulgan, John Loder, Simon Tucker,

The NHS has already recognised that alternative approaches and solutions are therefore necessary – radically different and innovative ways of identifying, creating and scaling solutions, delivering services and involving patients and users are needed. This paper sets out the case

Plugged in, untapped: Using digital technologies to help young people learn to lead

30 September 2010 | Authors: Maryanna Abdo, Sarah Hewes,

Digital technologies can be powerful tools for empowering young people to lead positive social change. But these new resources are no magic bullet, and young people aren’t always the ‘digital natives’ they’re made out to be. While young people are