Resources

Creating a Social Care Trust Fund
This Select Committee Report outlines that a citizens’ wealth fund could provide long-term sustainable funding for adult social care, ensuring that everyone is treated fairly and...
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Fair Pay for Fair Work: A Look at Executive Compensation
This report by St Paul’s Institute makes recommendations to build on the recently improved disclosures on pay ratios. It calls for action regarding the lowest paid, and integrati...
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Remodelling Capitalism: how social wealth funds could transform Britain
by Stewart Lansley, Duncan McCann & Steve Schifferes
A pioneering new citizens’ wealth fund in the UK could provide a universal annual cash dividend and eventually a weekly basic income.
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Building Community Resilience
by Wessex Community Assets
This report explores how community benefit societies can support the shift towards a more resilient, sustainable and fairer economic system.
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Report & Financial Statements 2016-17
by Friends Provident Charitable Foundation
The annual report and financial statements for the Foundation for the year 2016-17
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Making the Most of Brexit
by Tom Startup and Claudia Wood
The UK’s decision to leave the EU creates both opportunities and risks in both the process of negotiation and the outcomes for the UK. The experts we consulted consider these to ...
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Gridlock in UK Power Markets: How Big Six capture of the regulatory process poses investor risk
by InfluenceMap
This report examines energy utilities and risks arising from the market transition to decarbonisation, decentralisation and democratisation (3Ds).
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Financial Inclusion Annual Monitoring Report 2017
by Karen Rowlingson and Stephen McKay
This report is the last in a series of five annual monitoring reports commissioned to monitor progress towards or away from financial inclusion in Britain.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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