Resources

February 14th, 2019 Reports - Local economic resilience

A review of current thinking about the nature of work and economic resilience

by Professor Anne Green

Projects funded by the Friends Provident Foundation contribute variously to proposing new solutions (innovation), gathering evidence to support and inform practice...

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January 21st, 2019 Reports -

Economic inequality and racial inequalities in the UK

by Omar Khan, Runnymede Trust

Inequality has risen up the public and policy agenda. While there is some dispute about how far inequality has risen or fallen in the past decade in Britain, there is increasing re...

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November 8th, 2018 FPF Governance - Resilient economies

Evaluating the Building Resilient Economies Programme

by New Philanthropy Capital

In 2013 Friends Provident Foundation launched the Building Resilient Economies programme, motivated by the failures of the economic system to meet the needs of society and the envi...

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October 15th, 2018 FPF Governance -

Friends Provident Foundation Annual Report 2016-17

by Friends Provident Charitable Foundation

Our Annual Report 2016-17 has been published.

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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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May 21st, 2018 Reports - Fair Pay

Fair Pay for Fair Work: A Look at Executive Compensation

by St Paul's Institute

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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May 10th, 2018 Reports - Systems change

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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April 11th, 2018 FPF Governance -

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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November 21st, 2017 Reports - Resilient economies

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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November 21st, 2017 Reports - Resilient economies

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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November 21st, 2017 Reports - Financial Inclusion

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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November 21st, 2017 Reports - Investment engagement

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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November 20th, 2017 Reports - Resilient economies

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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November 21st, 2016 Reports - Resilient economies

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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