As mayors and councils prepare their local growth plans, the RORE programme looks at how a less extractive model would support local economies to become more efficient at converting investment and growth into better living standards. From a longer article… Read more »
There are many local service providers across the UK who are inventing new ways to meet their communities’ needs and to help drive the green transition.
Building collective control and capacity for action How can local people build control and take action on things that matter to them? Our research shows that there are five main components of collective control: social connectedness; knowledge, understanding, and skills;… Read more »
The coronavirus pandemic has underscored the need for a universal safety net. The government’s 2020 budget, and subsequent measures, tried to bring in temporary changes to social security and “do whatever it takes” to respond to the threat of coronavirus…. Read more »
70 million days are lost from work each year due to mental ill-health. These figures from the Mental Health Foundation point to mental ill-health as the leading cause of sickness absence in the UK. Staff wellbeing in the workplace is… Read more »
NEF Consulting were commissioned by NHS England to undertake the second phase of a project begun in 2017 aimed at better understanding the economic case for support to carers. The work involved developing a cost-benefit model which can be populated… Read more »
MODELLING THE SOCIOECONOMICS OF CARE It is now widely recognised that Britain’s army of unpaid carers, family and friends of those with care and support needs, contribute the equivalent of over £57bn in service to our community each year. What is less… Read more »
Monetary valuation of social and environmental outcomes, as applied in methodologies like Social Return on Investment (SROI) and Social Cost-Benefit Analysis (SCBA), has become an increasingly common approach for organisations who want to understand and clearly articulate the change they… Read more »
Most research on the effects of Early Childhood Development projects in a development setting focuses on the long term impact that is created. You wouldn’t assume there’s a problem there, right? With so much policy making and investments focused on… Read more »
NEF Consulting worked throughout 2009 with SLaM NHS Trust to deliver Wellbeing at Work for the employees of the Trust. The survey provided SlaM with both qualitative and quantitative wellbeing results (benchmarked against national average scores). Based on the survey results, wellbeing interventions… Read more »
NEF aims to create a new economy that works for people and within environmental limits. We are guided by three missions:
Build a fast and fair transition
To a green economy through a deep and equitable transformation to address the climate crisis.
Guarantee economic security for all
By rebuilding effective and sustainable public services to give everyone access to life’s essentials.
Shift power to people and communities
Through democratic ownership of the economy and devolving political power.
We work with people to ignite change from below and carry out rigorous research to fight for change at the top.
We map local projects building a more democratic economy and the policies to make this happen.
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