Author: Tiffany Lam, Consultant, NEF Consulting 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…. Read more »
Return on investment from youth volunteering programme For every £1 the government spends on International Citizen Service (ICS) – its overseas youth volunteering programme – the scheme generates over £4 in social value, finds a report by NEF Consulting commissioned… Read more »
Plans for expansion of Bristol Airport may have overestimated benefits to the region by £280 million. The business case for the expansion of Bristol Airport may have significantly overestimated its economic benefits, and underestimated its social and environmental costs, a… Read more »
Social Return on Investment of the Guide Dogs’ habilitation service at Jordanstown School The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (Guide Dogs) commissioned NEF Consulting to undertake a Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis to help them to understand the… Read more »
The Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty commissioned NEF Consulting to measure and assess the economic and social wellbeing benefits and the environmental impacts of six visitor sites. The aim was to assess the impact of… Read more »
The proposed, and now cancelled, extension of the M4, represented the single largest infrastructure investment in the Welsh Government’s pipeline. Over two projects NEF Consulting supported the Future Generations Commissioner (empowered by the 2015 Well-being of Future Generations Act) with… Read more »
MODELLING THE SOCIOECONOMICS OF CARE AUTHOR: ALEX CHAPMAN, CONSULTANT, NEF CONSULTING. 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… Read more »
HELP THROUGH CRISIS Help through Crisis (HtC) is a £33 million National Lottery funded programme set up by The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK. Help through Crisis supports 69 partnerships across England… Read more »
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 »
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