For almost 30 years tranquillity has been recognised as a significant asset of our landscape, now embedded in the National Planning Policy Framework and used in planning decisions. However, in the 20 years since CPRE and Natural England reviewed this map, much has changed: the digital revolution; greater environmental awareness, economic squeeze, COVID, working from home, and so on. So, do we value tranquillity differently today? We relished the challenge, designing an innova

Magic Breakfast is a charity that delivers healthy breakfast food and provides expert advice to schools in the UK, to support children at risk of hunger with fuel for learning at the start of the school day. Whilst the charity had undertaken research with partner schools, a gap in knowledge was pupils’ and parents’ perspectives of school breakfast provision and experiences of poverty and hunger. We were commissioned to conduct a national piece of multi-method research to gath

In partnership with the Westminster Foundation, Young Enterprise set out to deliver funded enterprise and financial education opportunities to schools in three geographical areas where the Foundation had a strong base: the city of Westminster, Chester and Cheshire West, and Lancashire. These funded opportunities aimed to unlock potential, enhance workforce readiness, support professional development, and track outcomes for programme improvement. In June 2024, Young Enterprise

Trussell commissioned us to conduct an external evaluation of one of their pilot partnership projects, Help through Hardship local. This pilot project was co-designed to explore how partnership working between Local Citizens Advice, local Minds’ and Trussell food banks could work and be tested at a local level, with the ultimate aim of exploring how people facing both financial hardship and mental health problems could be supported through a ’no wrong door’ approach. The proj

In 2023, TNLCF launched a new strategy, ‘It Starts with Community’, that will guide their grant making until at least 2030. Central to this is the Impact Strategy - a key element of the implementation of the Fund’s organisational strategy. This will support the Fund to fulfil their commitment to be impact-focused and make a bigger difference for communities. We were commissioned to carry out qualitative research among grant holders on the draft Impact Strategy, with three aim