Last year the Cabinet Office teamed up with the Department for Communities and Local Government to explore how Community Organisers could support local communities in exercising the rights introduced in the Localism Act 2011. A Community Organiser Mobilisation fund was …
From Brazil to Luton… In 2014 the Centre for Social Action supported an innovative approach to community development and to improving the well-being and employability of the long-term unemployed. It was based on a Brazilian approach with social action at …
National Well-being Framework – Quality of Life indicators with a difference In March 2016 the ONS released the latest Life in the UK figures, providing us with a snapshot of how the nation is doing across those areas of life …
Following on from our public dialogue into wellbeing in 2014, we partnered with the What Works Centre for Wellbeing to run another dialogue, this time to help them shape their evidence programmes. The findings are published today. The series of …
In December we had the pleasure of hosting a team from the Hertford Business and Economics Society, and their Principal at Hertford College, Oxford, Will Hutton. The team of students had just completed a study on the implications of wellbeing …
How are children in the UK doing? There is a growing body of high quality evidence on this subject and some deep expertise within UK universities, think tanks and charities. Recent research has indicated that UK children are lagging behind …
In September and October many of us attended Civil Service Live at different venues around the country. The events were excellent and packed with seminars, interactive workshops and networking opportunities to share and inspire good practice across a host of …
In July, the Minister for Civil Society, Rob Wilson, set out his vision for a Bigger, Stronger Society. At the core of that vision is an ambition to build stronger, more resilient communities where people ask what they can do …
Our previous blog on the Community First (CF) Neighbourhood Fund programme highlighted why we might expect to see community well-being and volunteering increase within areas in which projects have run. But has this actually happened? To test the evidence we …
Measuring how people feel their lives are progressing The Prime Minister speaking at the start of the first Cabinet meeting since the election said “It is absolutely vital that every decision we take, every policy we pursue, every programme we …
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