Max Wind-Cowie is Head of the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos. His specialist areas include wealth and assets, the 'Big Society' and inequality. Last week, Demos launched a new report – Measuring Up – on how corporate sponsors of events and activities can measure their social value. This report, which incorporates a new and unique measurement tool specifically tailored to corporate sponsors, aims to reduce the polarisation in the fierce debate a...

Charlee Bennett, one of our Team v leaders from Wokingham, explains what it was like to take part in the peer evaluation of Team v... After completing my second campaign working to prevent isolation and loneliness in older people, I offered to run a community jury session in my community as part of CFE's peer evaluation. I decided to partake in the assessment as I thought it would be a really good chance to see how my team and I managed to affect our community and if we had m...

We asked Rebecca Lee and Sarah Neat, from research consultancy, CFE, to talk us through how they put young participants at the heart of their Team v programme evaluation with the Centre for Social Action at De Montfort University. Read on to find out more about the evaluation and how it's helping us shape our future work.... What’s the aim of the evaluation? To explore the impact of the programme and inform its future development. Through desk research and...

Some people argue that there is nothing special about student volunteers. Perhaps the activities they take part in do not necessarily differ from other ‘volunteer-types’. However, (and sorry to bore you with statistics) in a recent study Georgina Brewis et.al found that 63% of surveyed students reported to have formally volunteered since they had started university. This percentage is significantly higher than the national standard with 40% of adults volunteering ...

We’re always hearing about ‘anti-social behaviour’ but we don’t hear much about its antithesis - pro-social behaviour. It sounds like something from ‘Brave New World’ but just means volunteering, involvement in decision making or local and community organisations. Commissioned by the last Government, the Department for Education (DfE) has just published research into pro-social behaviour of 16-19 year olds. It turns out that, contrary to media r...