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 …
On the 19th October we published the findings from the evaluation of the two Uniformed Youth Social Action Funds (UYSAF), commissioned by the Cabinet Office and now part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport under the Civil Society …
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 …
Like many large employers the Civil Service runs an annual survey to find out the attitudes of its employees and our eighth survey will take place in October. We publish the results every year and you can find the 2015 …
On 11th March we published a report on the size and characteristics of the social enterprise sector. The report provides an update on the Social enterprise: market trends paper published in 2013. Government is an important source of data in …
The benefits of civil servants volunteering, to both themselves and charities, were laid out in a recent CSQ article. In this spirit we’ve recently completed a volunteer research project for the British Science Association (BSA). Given the amount we learned …
Later this week I’ll be hosting the Cabinet Office Analysts Winter Event (previous events are described here). It’ll be a great opportunity to look ahead and see how - as an analytical community - we can have the greatest possible …
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 …
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 …
The Community Life survey is a Cabinet Office Official Statistic, tracking the latest trends on key policy areas such as volunteering, charitable giving, civic engagement and views on your neighbourhood. It supports the Minister for Civil Society's vision for a …
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