Resources

Power to Participate: a specification for community energy to participate in a flexible energy system

This report looks at how our electricity system is changing. Centralised fossil fuel plants are being replaced by distributed renewable energy generation.

Women at work: Designing a company fit for the future

by Deborah Hargreaves, FPF Journalist Fellow 2018

This report by Friends Provident Foundation journalist fellow Deborah Hargreaves sets out to examine what would happen if women could re-imagine the way they work and how the busin...

Corporate Political Engagement Index 2018

by Transparency International UK

Corruption can undermine people's trust in democracy, the economy, institutions and leaders. The Corporate Political Engagement Index supports companies and the wider private secto...

A review of current thinking about the nature of work and economic resilience

by Professor Anne Green

Projects funded by the Friends Provident Foundation contribute variously to proposing new solutions (innovation), gathering evidence to support and inform practice...

Economic inequality and racial inequalities in the UK

by Omar Khan, Runnymede Trust

Inequality has risen up the public and policy agenda. While there is some dispute about how far inequality has risen or fallen in the past decade in Britain, there is increasing re...

Friends Provident Foundation Annual Report 2016-17

by Friends Provident Charitable Foundation

Our Annual Report 2016-17 has been published.

Fair Pay for Fair Work: A Look at Executive Compensation

by St Paul's Institute

This report by St Paul’s Institute makes recommendations to build on the recently improved disclosures on pay ratios. It calls for action regarding the lowest paid, and integrati...

Remodelling Capitalism: how social wealth funds could transform Britain

by Stewart Lansley, Duncan McCann & Steve Schifferes

A pioneering new citizens’ wealth fund in the UK could provide a universal annual cash dividend and eventually a weekly basic income.

Building Community Resilience

by Wessex Community Assets

This report explores how community benefit societies can support the shift towards a more resilient, sustainable and fairer economic system.

Making the Most of Brexit

by Tom Startup and Claudia Wood

The UK’s decision to leave the EU creates both opportunities and risks in both the process of negotiation and the outcomes for the UK. The experts we consulted consider these to ...

Gridlock in UK Power Markets: How Big Six capture of the regulatory process poses investor risk

by InfluenceMap

This report examines energy utilities and risks arising from the market transition to decarbonisation, decentralisation and democratisation (3Ds).

Financial Inclusion Annual Monitoring Report 2017

by Karen Rowlingson and Stephen McKay

This report is the last in a series of five annual monitoring reports commissioned to monitor progress towards or away from financial inclusion in Britain.

Wise Minds: The energy transition and large utilities

by Will Dawson and Ian Watt

The UK energy system is in flux. It is changing more quickly – and more fundamentally – than at any point since the Industrial Revolution.

Moving beyond neoliberalism

by Laurie Laybourn-Langton and Michael Jacobs

Neoliberalism – the set of socioeconomic ideas and policies which have dominated public life over the last 40 years – has failed. Despite the evidence that neither its anal...

Financial Innovation Today, Toward Economic Resilience

by Mark Davis and Tim Braunholtz-Speight

We are at the threshold of a cultural war over the meaning of money. The events of 2007/8 were quickly framed within an Overton Window as a global ‘financial’ crisis within the...