Our research blends innovative policy ideas with practical insights to help support councils and communities.
We believe that many of our biggest national challenges – health and social care, skills and employment support, housing and homelessness – can only be solved locally.
Communities want to have more influence over the issues they face, the challenges they want to overcome, and the services they use.
Communities want to have more influence over the issues they face, the challenges they want to overcome, and the services they use.
It’s not NIMBYs preventing housing being built – it’s a system that creates conflict by design.
Local action is the ‘missing piece’ of plans to fight climate change.
Why public services need radical change and how it can be achieved.
The first research to collect and analyse existing evidence of the impact of community power.
Community power produces far-ranging benefits. But an ‘evidence paradox’, hard-wired into our policy-making system, is holding back its potential.
