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National Peer Research Network welcomes 15 new members

23 July 2020

A new cohort of peer researchers has graduated from 6 weeks of remote training and officially joined The Young Foundation’s National Peer Research Network. The peer researchers hail from Sunderland, Ayrshire, Cardiff, Grimsby and London where they are currently interviewing people about the impact of Covid-19 on their lives and their communities. 

Safety in Numbers?

30 June 2020 | Authors: Emily Morrison,

Safety in numbers? sets out the questions that matter to communities, as told to us and prioritised by over three thousand people across the UK. This agenda is the result of a nationally representative process of research and co-creation, which listened

Standing in solidarity

3 June 2020 | Authors: Eve Avdoulos,

As an organisation working to strengthen communities across the UK, what we are seeing taking place in the United States is deeply upsetting and unsettling.

Arts, culture and social impact: lessons on how to grow good ideas

22 May 2020 | Authors: Helen Goulden OBE,

In partnership with Battersea Arts Centre and with generous support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, we’re pleased to be launching the Co-Creating Change Accelerator.

‘Covid & Me’ diaries: exit strategies

7 May 2020 | Authors: Franca Roeschert, Jana Tauschinski,

With the lockdown exit strategy due to be announced by the Government on Sunday, we were curious to find out what UK residents think is the best way to lift lockdown

‘Covid & Me’ diaries: community voices

3 May 2020 | Authors: Franca Roeschert,

The speed of Covid-19 spreading across the country and impact on UK society has turned our lives upside down.

Emerging from Lockdown (Part One)

29 April 2020 | Authors: Helen Goulden OBE,

There is an increasingly vocal common hope that in amongst the pain for those who experience illness and loss through Covid-19 and all the associated long-term social, health and economic impacts of lockdown, we will come out of this with a renewed sense of community.

Learning in Lockdown

15 April 2020

The Citadel The Citadel, as we are more colloquially known to our service users, has been helping children and young people in the Leith area of Edinburgh since 1980. In recent times, our provision has focussed on youth clubs offering a wide range of social,

Supporting our communities, our ventures – and ourselves

6 April 2020 | Authors: Eve Avdoulos, Tatevik Sargsyan,

To say that these times are unprecedented would be an understatement. Within the span of one week, our entire country, and nearly a quarter of the globe, has immediately needed to adapt to new ways of working, new ways of operating and new ways of communicating with colleagues, friends and families.

Community Organising at Pace

31 March 2020

I believe wholeheartedly in the power of community – to enable citizens to lead and to seek out local solutions to local issues. The current public health crisis facing communities across the world offers a unique opportunity to reveal the value of community,

Community & Covid-19

20 March 2020

We understand that Covid-19 is already changing and will profoundly change the experience of community and life in every local place in the UK. This research gives us a detailed account of the state of community on the brink of

Looking local

29 November 2019 | Authors: Emily Morrison,

ICS research sheds a new light on communities’ agenda for this general election In a general election dominated by big national issues, our new research looks at what matters to people in Britain: community. Over the last three months we’ve