Peter Matthews, Louise Ryan, Franca Roeschert, Chris French and Binki Taylor discuss how how UK communities bring together identities that intersect and overlap in complex ways.

We are a not-for-profit organisation with a unique understanding the changing role of communities in the 21st century. We build knowledge around the issues people care about, supporting collective...

Andrea Wigfield and Stephen Green, Emily Abbott and Charlotte Miller, explore the potential of intergenerational connections within communities.

As we launch our new Journal for Community Studies, Sue Griffiths shares its central principle: bringing academic expertise and community experience around the same table.

We are a not-for-profit organisation with a unique understanding the changing role of communities in the 21st century. We build knowledge around the issues people care about, supporting collective, locally-led action and enterprise to improve lives and address shared challenges, and driving social change for stronger communities.

Rob Macmillan and Anthea Coulter examine what we know about social infrastructure, and what Scotland’s experience of community asset transfer offers the rest of the UK.

Landlords have little incentive to improve homes they don’t live in, leaving tenants out in the cold, says Samanthi Theminimulle

Labour’s latest planning reforms risk leaving communities powerless over the places they call home, say Leonie Taylor, Summer Simpson and Samanthi Theminimulle

Intergenerational participation is crucial if we are to achieve our climate goals, says Senior Researcher, Leonie Taylor

Overhear almost any conversation about the future of communities in the UK and it's likely that community spaces will get a mention. Whether it's a library, community...

We’re recruiting up to ten people across the UK for our paid Critical Friend Panel, helping ensure community perspectives shape C4’s research and work.

Labour’s state-reform agenda risks repeating age old mistakes

Over the past year the community ‘think and do' organisation I work at, The Young Foundation, has partnered with Luton BC to help ensure that the town's journey...

Should we continue designing for a stable world we hope will return, or for the complex world we already live in?

This is the fourth in a series of short discussion papers, sharing learnings from the UKRI-funded Citizen Science Collaboration Grants.

Welcoming new expertise across policy, research, design, systems change, governance, education and social impact.

Dr Sue Griffiths, Daniel Farag and Jessica Moore share ideas for a better future.

Samanthi Theminimulle and Leonie Taylor from The Young Foundation explore how the UK can meet its climate goals while ensuring the benefits of retrofitted, energy efficient homes are felt across the country

During London Data Week (6-12 July), Sean Croghan and Katherine Welch consider how values-driven organisations can evolve with technology

Our CEO, Dr Sue Griffiths, celebrates the footballers, musicians, politicians and many other local change-makers shaping a cleaner, greener Britain at Energising Britain events

Nairat Ali explores how creative and community-led research can challenge traditional ideas of evidence and expertise.

This is the fourth in a series of short discussion papers, sharing learnings from the UKRI-funded Citizen Science Collaboration Grants.

Community-led research is essential to ensuring innovation delivers real benefits for people, places and communities, not just economic growth

Community-led research is essential to ensuring innovation delivers real benefits for people, places and communities, not just economic growth

Protecting communities from the significant impacts of climate change is important. But we mustn’t pass up the rare opportunity to rewire our broken systems and create a more equal future.   As people...

Protecting communities from the significant impacts of climate change is important. But we mustn’t pass up the rare opportunity to rewire our broken systems and create a more equal future.   As people...

Isabella Pereira and Dr Sue Griffiths say the government’s social cohesion action plan can only deliver if it addresses inequalities in UK communities

Reflecting on the publication of his new book, Dr Jack Layton champions the spaces and places that support connection.

The seventh Carbon Budget is ambitious. But, says Emily Morrison, director of sustainability and Just Transition at The Young Foundation, cutting carbon emissions via technology and industry alone misses a crucial factor: public participation.

Reflecting on the publication of his new book, Dr Jack Layton champions the spaces and places that support connection.