Resources

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...

Sustainable Economy Map

by Tellus Mater

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...

FPF Annual Report 2013-14

by Friends Provident Charitable Foundation

This has been another busy year, during which we have worked hard to make sound decisions that take forward our mission – supporting UK economic and financial systems to become ...

FPF Annual Report 2014-15

by Friends Provident Charitable Foundation

Each year Friends Provident Foundation works hard to find fresh and effective ways to contribute to the changes we want to see happen. This year has been no exception as we contin...

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 ...

Can payday loan alternatives be affordable and viable? An evaluation of London Mutual Credit Union’s pilot scheme

by Gareth Evans and Mick McAteer

London Mutual Credit Union (LMCU) had become increasingly alarmed by the escalating and often detrimental use of costly payday loans by already overindebted households. Moreover, i...

Emotional relationships with money and financial behaviour: Analysing the Big Money Test

by Friends Provident Charitable Foundation

In 2011 over 100,000 people took part in the BBC LabUK’s Big Money Test, a survey launched on the consumer affairs programme Watchdog.

How much does ‘free banking’ cost? An assessment of the costs of using UK personal current accounts

by John K. Ashton and Robert Hudson

This assessment is important and topical due to rising international regulatory disapproval of the pricing methods used in personal current account markets and in particular the �...

Mapping Economic Resilience

by Tony Greenham, Elizabeth Cox and Josh Ryan-Collins

This report was compiled for Friends Provident Foundation by nef to assist its development of a new social change programme. The overarching aim of the new programme is to transfor...