Research Reports
This is a report of three events Urban Forum ran with the Yorkshire and Humberside Empowerment Partnership in July 2009.
banking on change 2009 09Banking on change: Community Reinvestment and re-thinking the UK financial system is a piece of rapid research produce by the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) in partnership with Urban Forum.
Places Bases Spaces is research on the built environment newly published by Urban Forum.
Amongst its main findings are that butchers, greengrocers and other smaller retilers are disappearting from our High Streets, disproportionally affecting older people and low-income families.
Urban Forum has published a new research report called Leading Lights: Research into councillors and third sector representatives in community leadership.
The report presents research findings exploring the roles of councillors and third sector representatives in community leadership. The report includes recommendations to strengthen relationships between the two groups to address the major differences in perception that exist.
Urban Forum has published research which details the current state of Community Empowerment Networks (CENs). It shows that up to 40 per cent of CENs are set to lose funding and that quarter of CENs are doing less empowerment work at the same time as empowerment is rising to the top of the Government's policy agenda.
