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Radical Help
0Internationally acclaimed social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam shows how we can remake the relationships between us, and revolutionise the welfare state.
Building And Dwelling
Richard Sennett, one of the world's leading thinkers on the urban environment, traces the relationship between how cities are built and how people live in them.
Building A Citizens’ Economy
As the Citizens’ Economic Council launches its final report, we hear from participants and public figures including Andrew Haldane, Bank of England; Patricia Wharton, CEC member; Anand Menon, UK in a Changing Europe; and ...
If Not Us, Then Who
Award-winning architect Alison Brooks speaks about architects’ duties to respond to the social, cultural and physical context in their work.
Publications
In this collection of essays, we ask a number of thought leaders and practitioners to explore the potential of alternative housing models such as co-living to help meet the challenges of today, with a particular focus on ...
A Matter of Conviction: A Blueprint for Community-Based Rehabilitative prisons sets out a blueprint for reform for the prison system in England and Wales.
The interim report from the RSA Inclusive Growth Commission
In order to inform its analysis of place-based dimensions of inclusive growth, the Commission undertook three ‘deep dive’ research visits in Bradford, Cardiff city region and Newcastle.
Articles & Blogs
Food, farming and the environment are having a place in the policy sun that was unthinkable just a few short years ago. This is extraordinary, overdue and most welcome.
Sam Ruddock talks about the Yes We Can takeover in Norwich and the wider benefits of creating community-led change.
Matthew reflects on why the decline of liberal democracy is the topic of the moment and sets out his case for a constitutionalist solution
Robert Ashton FRSA on his RSA fellowship and more recent involvement in the lottery funded Power to Change project, set up with the aim of creating better places through community business and promote a community business ...
Projects
Citizen Power Peterborough explored creative ways of encouraging local people to work together and help their communities become stronger, safer, greener and more able to overcome the challenges they faced.The programme compri ...
One of the Citizen Power Peterborough projects, Sustainable Citizenship aimed to encourage, test and support people’s ideas to make green behaviour easier in Peterborough and the city a more sustainable place to live.
Social Mirror is a tablet application that you can use to measure, visualise, and see the potential for change in on line and offline networks. Starting in January 2012, we developed a prototype for use by social science ...
The Mental Wellbeing and Social Inclusion programme is a longitudinal project that seeks to i) understand how community and social connections affect people’s well-being; ii) develop best practice around using local data ...
Events
One year on from the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower, a panel gathers to reflect on what it exposed about the social and economic state of the nation, and how to secure safety and justice for everyone.
The winners of the UK’s most prestigious awards for political writing are revealed, celebrating the best of this year’s books, journalism and innovative reporting on social issues.
Internationally acclaimed social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam shows how we can remake the relationships between us, and revolutionise the welfare state.
Political failure is a failure of the imagination. Journalist and author George Monbiot joins us to tell the new political story we’ve been missing.