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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

Charities and volunteering

FareShare

FareShare commissioned NEF Consulting to establish a monetary value for the socio-economic impact of  the redistribution of surplus food to frontline charities and community groups. These include homeless hostels, breakfast clubs, lunch clubs, day centres, community cafés and more. FareShare

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Social return on investment (SROI)

How much is a human life worth?

Monetisation and Social Return on Investment (SROI) You might think it impossible to put a pound sign on a person’s life. But policymakers, project funders and other decision makers may need to weigh up different options that may affect human

Transport Fit for Future Generations
Central and local government

The road to prosperity?

Why extending the M4 is not the way AUTHOR: Alex Chapman, 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? Imagine

Environment & Climate Change

A tale of three fisheries

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

Report launched on boosting the UK’s co-operative sector

A new report from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) looks at methods to double the size of the UK’s co-operative sector. Co-operatives Unleashed looks at how enterprise can “serve the interests of the people it employs and those in the

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

Locality guide for community organisations
Central and local government

Keep it Local: new guide on how to keep services with local providers

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

Developing composite indices to measure change

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

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