The Demos team and its work features regularly in the press on the key issues of the day. Read our statements and articles by our team here.
Mental health continues to be one of the most pressing health challenges facing policymakers. Recent reports have revealed that the number of children being referred to NHS mental health services in England has hit the highest level on record. Mental...
Tax simplification: unlikely to get you out of bed in the morning. If it does, you’re probably concerned about the business burdens of a lengthy tax code. I think a much broader group should care about tax simplification, particularly those...
Community spirit has been a welcome silver lining as we’ve seen the increasing role neighbours have played in supporting their local communities through COVID-19. There is strong evidence showing vast improvements neighbourhood and community-centred interventions have on people’s wellbeing. Often...
Within the first three days of the lockdown, a leaflet from local volunteers had come through the door, offering to help with shopping, prescriptions, or simply a friendly phone call. By the fourth day, “the entire scheme was up and...
There’s no doubt this is a frightening time for the country and the world, and many of us find our minds getting clogged up with negative thoughts. But when you look for the glimmers of hope, you can see astounding acts...
Shelter for rough sleepers. Discussion groups for transgender teenagers. Coffee mornings to combat loneliness among the elderly. These are but some of the many social action projects happening in churches across the country. Over the past decade, we have seen a...
Writing 20 years ago at Demos, Charles Leadbeater introduced to the mainstream the then-fringe idea of combining business and charitable aims to address social challenges. This included championing the potential for social entrepreneurship to solve modern welfare problems that the...
Demos has always been interested in power. And not just in the conventional way that almost everyone is interested in power – we’ve investigated how power works, looked for ways of more equally distributing power throughout society and promoted giving...
