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...

Community Energy at a Crossroads

by Friends Provident Foundation and Environmental Funders Network

Community energy is at a crossroads, following recent reductions in government support and subsidy.

FPF Annual Report 2015-16

by Friends Provident Charitable Foundation

In 2016 Friends Provident Foundation launched a new strategy – to help create a ‘fairer economy, better world’. There are three ways in which the Foundation contributes to th...

Financial Inclusion Annual Monitoring Report 2016

by Karen Rowlingson and Stephen McKay

This report is the fourth in a series of five annual monitoring reports commissioned to monitor progress towards or away from financial inclusion in Britain.

FPCF Report & Financial Statements 2015-16

by Friends Provident Charitable Foundation

The annual report and financial statements for the Foundation for the year 2015-16

2015 Clore Social Fellows

2015 Clore Social Fellows

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...