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Thames Freeport Commission

In 2025, the Thames Freeport Board asked the Royal Society of Arts to establish an independent commission to recommend an approach to the Social Value Framework. Read the commission’s recommendations in this report.
8 May 2026
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The Living University

This report explores how universities can leverage their unique role in society to become catalysts of transformational change and support the transition to a more just, sustainable future.
15 Apr 2026 Josie Warden, Philipa Duthie, Chris Speed, Wendy Steele, Naomi Stead, Andrea Siodmok
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Digital Badging Commission

In partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust, the RSA convened the Digital Badging Commission in 2024 to examine how digital credentials can transform skills recognition in the UK. Read the Commission’s final report.
13 Oct 2025
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East Midlands Inclusive Growth Commission final report

These recommendations are grounded in the practical and tangible, shaping them around the East Midlands’ unique strengths, challenges, and opportunities today and in the future.
15 Sep 2025 Liv Chai, Nick Heslop, Mark Lloyd, William Miles, Rosario Montiel, Tom Stratton, Oliver Burrows, Lesley Giles, Alejandro Mina-Calvo, Adele Marshall
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Improving health through economic development

We have created an Economies for Healthier Lives programme coaching resource that pulls together our experience, insight and case studies from the five ‘hubs’.
13 Dec 2024 Anna Markland, Liv Chai, Nicholas Heslop
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Creative Corridors: connecting clusters to unleash potential

This RSA report offers creative corridors as a mechanism for harnessing this growth. Our ambition is that creative corridors will stimulate economic growth by increasing linkages.
24 Oct 2024 Jolyon Miles-Wilson, Hayley Sims, Tom Stratton, Bernard Hay, Emily Hopkins
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