Resources

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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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
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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...
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Financial System Resilience Index
This report on resilience in financial systems, from the New Economics Foundation, richly repays reading.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Resilient economies video wall
The specific question we posed to them was: “What would you do if you had a million pounds to build a more resilient economy?” The video wall below showcases their responses…
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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...
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