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The double benefit of youth social action: findings from an evaluation of the Uniformed Youth Social Action Fund (UYSAF)

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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 …

Organisation Workshops – supporting the long-term unemployed and local communities

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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 …

Our pro bono work for the British Science Association

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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 …

Innovation in survey methodology - an online approach to survey data collection

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...places they live in. Currently, a face-to-face survey methodology is used. Whilst this approach is effective in providing robust and nationally representative data, face-to-face interviews are a resource intensive undertaking,...