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Environment & Climate Change

Visitor impact on an area of outstanding natural beauty

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

Health and community services

Unpaid care isn’t free

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

Charities and volunteering

Improving frontline crisis support

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

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Social return on investment (SROI)

How much is a human life worth?

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

Transport Fit for Future Generations
Central and local government

The road to prosperity?

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?

The war on solar

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

Wellbeing

How do you measure wellbeing? A new guide for frontline organisations

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

Charities and volunteering

Fairtrade Foundation

Costs and benefits of a hypothetical collaborative sustainability initiative in the UK pineapple industry The Fairtrade Foundation commissioned NEF Consulting to conduct a social cost benefit analysis (SCBA) of a hypothetical collaborative sustainability initiative in the market for fresh pineapples

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Charities and volunteering

WWF: Socio-economic benefits assessment of Celtic Seas Partnership guidelines

Socio-economic benefits assessment of Celtic Seas Partnership guidelines WWF commissioned NEF Consulting to conduct an socio-economic benefits assessment of co-existence guidelines produced by the Celtic Seas Partnership. The Celtic Seas is an area of the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland

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Progressive Business

Impact evaluation of Wates’ relationship with social enterprises

The Wates Group has set a target to work with a social enterprise on every project. In 2013 the group launched the first national Social Enterprise Brokerage (SEB) site in partnership with Social Enterprise UK (SEUK). They aim to generate trade of