Invitation to local authorities in London In partnership with Snook and London Metropolitan University, NEF Consulting has been commissioned to design and deliver the Social Integration Design Lab as part of All of Us: The Mayor’s Strategy for Social Integration and… Read more »
The Wasted Opportunity: Fareshare report A new socio-economic impact report commissioned from NEF Consulting by FareShare confirms that by collecting food that would otherwise go to waste and redistributing it to good causes, the charity saves the UK economy approximately… Read more »
Monetisation and Social Return on Investment (SROI) AUTHOR: Sarah Arnold Sarah is the trainer for our two-day SROI training course and here introduces an article she co-authored with other SROI experts. You might think it impossible to put a pound sign on… Read more »
Why extending the M4 is not the way AUTHOR: Alex Chapman, Consultant, NEF Consulting If governments took decisions on infrastructure based on making people, communities and the environment healthier, how would they look? What demands would we make of them?… Read more »
Coastal communities throughout the UK are, as a group, struggling more than others over a number of social and economic issues from unemployment and educational underachievement to lower health and wellbeing. This is despite the fact that they are located… Read more »
A new report from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) looks at methods to double the size of the UK’s co-operative sector. Written by NEF’s Sara Mahmoud and Andrew Pendleton, along with Matthew Lawrence, Co-operatives Unleashed looks at how enterprise can… Read more »
AUTHOR: Alex Chapman, NEF Consulting The government were warned what scrapping the feed-in tariff would do – and now it’s happened. Back in November I invited a local solar installation company round to my house to take a look at… Read more »
With input from NEF Consulting, Locality have published a Keep it Local guide for community organisations. It is one of three Locality guides for community organisations, councillors and commissioners with practical advice on how to keep services with local providers. It applies the approach… Read more »
AUTHOR: NEF Consulting team and reviewed by Samra Mariam, Senior Consultant, NEF Consulting. 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… Read more »
The New Economics Foundation has, in partnership with the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, launched new guidance for frontline organisations looking to understand and measure wellbeing. You can find more details about the new guidance and other resources from NEF Consulting on our wellbeing… Read more »
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