Common Ground Institute
The challenges of the next hundred years will be lived and solved locally.
Our future infrastructure, energy and public services depend on local reciprocity, where place is the common ground that brings us together and underpins a fairer, stronger society.
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On Common Ground:
why reciprocity must underpin the local state
Research and policy development focussed on local solutions to the challenges that will define our future.
Centralised approaches to energy resilience, infrastructure and neighbourhood services can no longer meet today’s challenges. Progress depends on ‘place’: the common ground where shared responsibility and reciprocity can be rebuilt, and where public investment can deliver more integrated and efficient outcomes.
Hosted by Social Investment Business, our research is grounded in decades of practical experience financing social change. As one of the UK’s largest social investors, we’ve deployed over £0.8bn in loans and grants since 2002, supporting more than 6,000 charities and social enterprises to build stronger communities and a fairer society.