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Flipping the Coin: The two sides of Community Wealth in England
Repository entry 1 November 2019
The Young Foundation’s 2018 Patchwork Philanthropy report showed for the first time that not only is public sector spending unequally distributed geographically, but so too is philanthropic spend by charities, trusts and foundations. Some of the regions with the highest levels of deprivation receive some of the lowest levels of investment, re…
Power to Change – First Data Visualisation
Repository entry 1 November 2019
# Preview | Download ER-2019-11-First Data Visualisation.pdf1MB Citation UNSPECIFIED (2019) Power to Change – First Data Visualisation. Evaluation Report. Renaisi. Details Report type: Evaluation Report Publisher: Renaisi Location: England
Quick guide to common good land use: For potential common good land users
Repository entry 1 November 2019
# Preview | Download G-2019-11-Quick guide to common good land use.pdf597kB Author(s) Unspecified Citation Unspecified (2019) Quick guide to common good land use: For potential common good land users. Practice Guide. Shared Assets. Details Report type: Practice Guide Publisher: Shared
Communities – nine ways to break them
Blog 28 October 2019
Originally published at: juliaunwin.com All my working life the call has been for stronger communities. Communities that could – depending on fashion and decade – care for their neighbours, enable regeneration, manage their carbon footprints, be more resilient, engage in community
Healthy New Towns: Putting Health into Place
Publication 22 October 2019
The Young Foundation, in partnership with NHS England, The Town & Country Planning Association, PA Consulting and The Kings Fund has launched Putting Health into Place. Through the Healthy New Towns programme we explored how the development of new places
The Institute for Community Studies goes live.
Blog 15 October 2019
Two years after first discussing the idea of relaunching the Institute, today our Manifesto gives a fantastic summary of what’re we’re about and our mission. You can get a sense of all those collaborating on research in and with communities
History and the challenge of community today
Blog 15 October 2019
Based on the research I did for Me, Me, Me?: the Search for Community in Post-war England my historical starting point would be: There has never been a ‘golden age’ of community and Britain has been a strongly individualist society for generations
The word “community” is at risk of losing all meaning
Blog 15 October 2019
Over the years, it has become a staple in corporate-speak, and there seems to me a sad correlation between the rise of the word in marketing and the slow demise of community itself. Everyone now “cares about the community,” especially
The biggest challenge for politics, for all of us, is to reconnect community with place.
Blog 15 October 2019
The biggest challenge for politics, for all of us, is to reconnect community with place. My job involves turning in places with my camera, spending a couple of days to take the temperature, then moving on. But In 2017 I
Remembering the original Institute for Community Studies
Blog 14 October 2019
Two former employees of the original Institute for Community Studies reflect on Michael Young’s approach to creating change… Michael Young thought that the best way of understanding people’s lives was to ask them, ideally by talking to them himself. He
How being a community researcher reconnected me to my home town
Blog 11 October 2019
I was born in this town. My family all live in this town. As a child, I played out on the streets with my friends in this town. In the winters we made snowmen and had snowball fights. In the
A Brighter Future
Publication 1 October 2019
The Young Foundation was funded by the H&M Foundation. The programme helps young people find their way into education, employment or training (EET) by providing them with personalised job coaching and access to a bursary fund. Our report, ‘A Brighter
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