About

30 years at the heart of British politics

Founded in 1993 in response to a shortage of new ideas in British politics, we’ve spent three decades cementing our place as a trusted expert on democratic renewal, public service reform and digital rights. As movements, ideologies and governments have come and gone, our commitment to collaborative politics has remained a constant at the heart of the British political landscape.

People, ideas and impact

At Demos, we believe the most powerful and precious resource is people. Over the years many of Westminster’s most influential people have worked at Demos, helping to steer our research into bold new territory. From senior civil servants and government advisors to MPs and industry leaders, our thinking has long been founded on excellence and objectivity, feeding into everything from the New Labour project and David Cameron’s Big Society to the Labour party’s current plans for reforming employment support.

Meet our team.

Our charitable status

As an independent educational charity, Demos exists to promote education and research for the public benefit in issues of politics, economics, technology and the digital economy, methods and practices of public deliberation, the environment and public policy, and to make the research findings publicly available. It achieves these objectives by carrying out a wide range of research projects, organising lectures, seminars and conferences, and through publishing in a number of different formats.

We are governed by a Board of Trustees who set the strategy for the organisation and are accountable for its oversight.

Meet our Trustees.

Financial reporting

Demos is grateful and proud that our ideas are supported by a wide range of commercial, charitable and public funders.

We accept financial donations for our work from organisations who are committed to supporting us to achieve our charitable objectives and understand that all the work we undertake under our charitable status is editorially independent of funders.

We are deeply committed to providing transparency in our financial dealings and funding sources, and strive for global best practice in our reporting. We declare all our funding sources in our published reports. We have been awarded the highest transparency rating by openDemocracy.

Below are our annual reports and accounts since 2002:

The directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on this website. Legislation in the UK governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Demos’ awarded and contracted funding for the 2015-2020 Financial Years:

Demos – Funding 2022 Financial Year
Demos – Funding 2021 Financial Year
Demos – Funding 2020 Financial Year
Demos – Funding 2019 Financial Year
Demos – Funding 2018 Financial Year
Demos – Funding 2017 Financial Year
Demos – Funding 2016 Financial Year
Demos – Funding 2015 Financial Year

Publishing

Demos is an open access publisher. Most of our archive and all new publications are available in electronic form to download free from our website. Find out more information on our open access license.

30 years at the heart of British politics

People, ideas and impact

Our charitable status

Financial reporting

Publishing

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