Resources

Wise Minds: The energy transition and large utilities

by Will Dawson and Ian Watt

The UK energy system is in flux. It is changing more quickly – and more fundamentally – than at any point since the Industrial Revolution.

Moving beyond neoliberalism

by Laurie Laybourn-Langton and Michael Jacobs

Neoliberalism – the set of socioeconomic ideas and policies which have dominated public life over the last 40 years – has failed. Despite the evidence that neither its anal...

Financial Innovation Today, Toward Economic Resilience

by Mark Davis and Tim Braunholtz-Speight

We are at the threshold of a cultural war over the meaning of money. The events of 2007/8 were quickly framed within an Overton Window as a global ‘financial’ crisis within the...

Creating Good City Economies in the UK

by Clare Goff

In 2015 the Friends Provident Foundation awarded funding to the Centre for Local Economic Strategies – which owned New Start magazine – and the New Economics Foundation to map...

People Powered Prosperity: Ultra-local Approaches to Making Poorer Places Wealthier

by David Boyle and Tony Greenham

Can we find economic techniques which cities can use effectively to tackle their own market failures – and release their own wasted economic potential – and if so, why hasn’t...

Financial System Resilience Index

by New Economics Foundation

This report on resilience in financial systems, from the New Economics Foundation, richly repays reading.

Developing resilient local economies: good practice among local enterprise partnerships

by Angela Broadbridge and Luke Raikes

Our project builds upon emerging thinking about the kind of post-recession economy we are building in Britain, and the kind of economic growth that we are seeking to achieve.

Co-op Clusters

by Radical Routes

This report presents findings from research conducted into the problems restricting the growth of co-operative housing and to review a range of possible solutions to those problems...

Community Chest

by Duncan O'Leary

The UK’s economy is unbalanced in two ways. First, it relies too much on debt-fuelled consumption, and not enough on business investment and exports. Second, the UK has stark geo...

Financial Inclusion Annual Monitoring Report 2015

by Karen Rowlingson and Stephen McKay

This report is the third in a series of five annual monitoring reports commissioned by the Friends Provident Foundation to measure changing levels of financial inclusion in Britai...

Women’s financial assets and debts

by Jenny Westaway and Stephen McKay

Fawcett launched a new project in March 2006 to plug gaps in understanding of the differences between women’s and men’s financial assets and debt. Although differences in women...

Living well in retirement

by Tamsin Stirling

An investment and delivery framework to enable low income older home-owners to repair, improve and adapt their homes.

Financial Inclusion Annual Monitoring Report 2014

by Karen Rowlingson and Stephen McKay

This report is the second in a series of five annual monitoring reports commissioned by the Friends Provident Foundation to measure changing levels of financial inclusion in Britai...

Sustainable Debt Advice Project Pilot: Final Evaluation

AdviceUK, in partnership with Payplan and ACM Solutions1, has conducted a pilot to test the viability of a sustainable debt advice model.

The Store: evaluation

by Niall Alexander and Alistair Grimes

Derwentside Homes, Prince Bishops Community Bank (PBCB) and their funders and stakeholders, in particular the Friends Provident Foundation and Northern Rock Foundation, wanted to ...