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Reports and publications
We want to encourage learning from the work we fund, and will support the costs of evaluation and dissemination as part of a wider project. We also occasionally fund research where its aims match our priorities and where we consider it is likely to have an impact. Examples of evaluation and research we have supported are below, together with other reports that have resulted from our funding.
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Rethinking Crime & Punishment: The Manifesto
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation's seven year programme into alternatives to prison 'Rethinking Crime and Punishment’ invested over £4 million on more than sixty research projects, working with partner organisations. The manifesto makes proposals about how the Government's allocation of £2.3 billion earmarked for building 'Titan prisons' might be spent on alternatives to prison, based on the lessons of the Rethinking Crime & Punishment programme. (July 2008).
Download The Manifesto (976KB)
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Mitigation - the role of personal factors in sentencing
The report is concerned with personal mitigation: factors which reduce the severity of a sentence, and relate to the offender rather than the offence. The study involved observation of sentences passed in the Crown Court and interviews with judges and recorders. Published by the Prison Reform Trust, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Kings College London and the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (October 2007).
Download Mitigation Report (517KB)
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Restorative Justice: the evidence
The report is an independent review of restorative justice evaluations in the UK and internationally. Published by Esmee Fairbairn and the Smith Institute, and directed by Professor Lawrence Sherman. (February 2007)
Download Restorative Justice Executive Summary (184KB)
Download Restorative Justice Full Report (412KB)
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Local Enterprise Agency Loan Funds: a review of performance
The report was commissioned by the National Federation of Enterprise Agencies and supported by Esmée Fairbairn. It suggests business start-ups are missing out on vital funds to kick-start their ventures as few realise they can access micro-finance as well as advice and support from the enterprise agency network. Non-commercial lending of the type available through the agencies is intended to reach the financially excluded with a viable business proposition but those who are unable to borrow from commercial sources. Crucially, the funds come with business advice which significantly increases the chances of unlocking backing from the high street banks. (December 2006)
Download Loan funds full report (323KB)
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The UK Tax System and the Environment
The UK Tax System and the Environment examines in depth the current system of green taxes in place in the UK, their design and effectiveness, and looks at the recent history of green tax revenues and greenhouse gas emissions. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has bought together evidence and data from a range of sources to provide a central source of information about the existing environment tax system, alongside discussion of the key principles of the debate around using taxes and other economic instruments for environmental goals. (October 2006)
Download UK Tax system full report (1,266KB)
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Allotments Regeneration Initiative
The Allotments Regeneration Initiative (ARI) was launched in 2002 by the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens (FCFCG) with the support of Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Esmée Fairbairn and the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens (FCFCG) have jointly produced a report which highlights ARI’s many successes in promoting and expanding the use of allotments. (October 2006)
Download Allotments Regeneration Initiative full report (1,137KB)
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Living Values: A report encouraging boldness in the third sector
The value-driven ethos of third-sector organisations is often cited as their distinguishing feature. But what are these values and how do they influence the working practices of the sector? Community Links, with funding from Esmée Fairbairn, undertook some research to answer the questions, what are the values of the third sector, are these values unique to the sector, are these values under threat and what can we do to promote and protect these values? (June 2006)
Download Living Values full report (399KB)
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Fade or Flourish: How primary schools can build on children's early progress
Evidence suggests that some of the benefits of pre-school can be lost during later childhood if they are not consolidated. This report looks into how primary schools can play a crucial role in sustaining the social and academic gains provided by early years interventions. It provides a broad ranging review of evidence and best practice, with the use of case studies, relating to a range of pedagogical and administrative elements of primary school practice. (June 2006)
Download Fade or Flourish full report (2536KB)
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Aspire - Microloans for Business
The report and briefing share the achievements, challenges and lessons learned by Aspire Microloans for Business, a pioneer of community development finance in the UK. They include a comparison of Aspire's performance with its original plans, describe the strengths and weaknesses of its business model, its best practices, and come to some conclusions about what's achievable in terms of microfinance scale and sustainability in a developed economy context. It concludes with lessons and recommendations for UK community development finance institutions (CDFIs) and funders. (April 2006)
Download Aspire briefing (130KB)
Download Aspire full report (3077KB)
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Inspiring schools
Since the launch of the Citizenship Curriculum in England, many schools have started to embrace pupil participation. As commitment grows, pupil participation is increasingly seen as an important tool in school improvement. It was in this context that the Carnegie Young People Initiative, as part of the Carnegie UK Trust, and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation came together in Spring 2005 to gain a better understanding of the impact of pupil participation on schools. The project involved secondary schools in England. The results of the project are set out in four publications, under the ‘Inspiring Schools’ banner: Impact and Outcomes, A Literature Review, Case Studies for Change and Resources for Action. (Feb 2006)
Download Impact and Outcomes (107KB)
Download Literature Review (101KB)
Download Case Studies for Change (212KB)
Download Resources for Action (661KB)
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Foundations and Social Investment
Conventional wisdom is that charities are required to keep their money in two silos: for investment or for grant-making. It is often assumed that trustees should maximise returns by investing only in mainstream financial products without regard to their match or mismatch with their charitable purposes. Social investment challenges this model. Over the last thirty years or so, practitioners in the UK and US have engaged in a range of social investment activities - defined as investments which generate a social as well as a financial return. This briefing and the full report describe the principles and concepts behind social investment and use case studies - from both the UK and the US - to help shed light on how social investments have actually happened and worked in practice. (October 2005)
Download Foundations and Social Investment briefing (212 KB)
Download Foundations and Social Investment full Report (228 KB)
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Digital beginnings: Young children's use of popular culture, media and new technologies
This report presents the findings of a study which took place from September 2004 to July 2005. The study explored young children’s (aged from birth to six) use of popular culture, media and new technologies in the home through a survey of 1,852 parents and carers of children who attended 120 individual maintained and non-maintained early years settings in England. A total of 524 early years practitioners who worked in 104 of these settings were also surveyed in order to determine their attitudes towards children’s use of popular culture, media and new technologies and to explore how far they planned for their use in the communications, language and literacy curriculum of the foundation stage. (Sept 2005)
Download Digital beginnings report (1.06 MB)
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Carbon Disclosure Project 2005
Drawing upon data requested from FT500 companies on behalf of investors whose combined assets total $21 trillion, this report outlines the key issues that make climate change an investment-relevant issue and draws upon company responses to highlight important trends, quantify the risks and direct attention to new investment opportunities. The report demonstrates that the answer to reducing greenhouse gas emissions lies as much with companies and investors as it does with governments, international agencies and the public. (September 2005)
Download Carbon Disclosure Project 2005 report (2.1 MB)
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Time for Growth
Time for Growth was a challenge established by a
£1 million grant from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to Community Foundation Network. Ten community foundations each received £100,000 in core cost support in order to enable them to achieve a combined total of £20 million in new endowment investment over a three year period. By the end of the challenge the total raised in new endowment was nearly £19.5 million. This briefing follows an evaluation of the project. A copy of the full evaluation is available below. (July 2005)
Download Time for Growth briefing (167 KB)
Download Time for Growth full evaluation (678 KB)
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Regional Theatre Initiative
The Regional Theatre Initiative (2001-05) aimed to give emerging directors the chance to direct on the main stage of key regional theatres. An initiative of the Arts & Heritage programme, the project was worth £500,000, and was developed in association with the Arts Councils. This document celebrates the achievements of the ten directors who were supported through the RTI. (May 2005)
Download Regional Theatre Initiative booklet (399 KB)
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Street (UK): Learning from Community Finance
In recent years community leaders, charities, business people and politicians have championed the development of 'community development finance' as a way of getting finance to people and organisations that struggle to gain access to mainstream financial services. This helps build assets and develop businesses, particularly in disadvantaged areas where community finance is often targeted. This briefing follows an evaluation of Street (UK), carried out by the New Economics Foundation and funded by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. A copy of the full evaluation is also available below. (April 2005)
Download Street UK briefing (151 KB)
Download Street UK full evaluation (300 KB)
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An Enquiry Into Continuing Professional Development for Teachers
A one-year research project by Dr Sandra Leaton Gray of Cambridge University, funded by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Villiers Park Educational Trust. The main aim of the research was to review current subject-based professional development opportunities, to identify gaps in provision and to make recommendations for improving future provision. (April 2005)
Download Continuing Professional Development for Teachers report (242 KB)
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I Would Rethink Crime and Punishment by...
A collection of contributions from well-known figures from inside and outside the criminal justice system. What would ex-footballer Tony Adams, peer L
ord Archer, business guru Anita Roddick and broadcaster Nick Ross do to improve the way we respond to crime? This is published by Rethinking Crime & Punishment, a strategic initiative of Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. (January 2005)
Download I would rethink... booklet (1.50 MB)
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Rethinking Crime & Punishment:
The Report
Rethinking Crime & Punishment is a four-year £3million initiative of Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. It aims to raise the level of public debate about the use of prison and alternative forms of punishment in the UK. The key findings and recommendations emerging from RCP are set out in The Report, and are summarised in the Executive Summary. (December 2004)
Download Rethinking executive summary (70 KB)
Download Rethinking report (1.86 MB)
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Crime, Courts and Confidence -
Report of an independent inquiry into alternatives to prison
This report by the Commission of Inquiry chaired by Lord Coulsfield contains a number of radical proposals to increase the effectiveness of and confidence in alternatives to prison. The inquiry was commissioned by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation as part of the Rethinking Crime & Punishment initiative, which aims to raise the level of public debate about the use of prison and alternative forms of punishment in the UK. (November 2004)
Download Crime, Courts and Confidence summary (32 KB)
Download Crime, Courts and Confidence report (530 KB)
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After the War on Drugs
Options for Control - a report by Transform Drug Policy Foundation
A major new report examining the key themes in the drug policy reform debate, detailing how legal regulation of drug markets will operate, and providing a roadmap and time line for reform. (November 2004)
Download After the War on Drugs report (1.06 MB)
For further information visit www.tdpf.org.uk
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Stakeholder accountability in the UK supermarket sector - the final report of the 'Race to the Top' project
This report charts the course of the 'Race to the Top' project, an innovative collaboration to track supermarket progress towards sustainability. This report is a primer for the strategic and tactical choices that now need to be made. (November 2004)
Download Stakeholder accountability report (411 KB)
For further information visit www.iied.org
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OxCAB/HMP Springhill Evaluation Report
An evaluation of the partnership between Oxford Citizens Advice Bureau and HMP Springhill where prisoners train to work as CAB advisers. This project, and the evaluation carried out by a joint team from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, was supported by the Foundation. (October 2004)
Download OxCAB/HMP summary (142 KB)
Download OxCAB/HMP full report (406 KB)
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Wings of Learning: the role of the prison officer in supporting prisoner education
Previous research has shown that prisoners involved in education value support and encouragement from officers on the wings. The study was aimed at discovering how officers viewed prison education, that support they could offer, and how it might best be given in the future. Twelve prisons in England and Wales were visited, between December 2004 and May 2005, and small group interviews were carried out with a total of 77 prison officers.
Download Wings of Learning report (1,530 KB)
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Philanthropy UK reports
The Foundation supported Philanthropy UK, a project set up to work with others to promote new philanthropy, particularly among higher earners and those with significant resources. Two publications resulted from this project:
A Guide to Giving
A guide providing the latest information on how to give and how to make donations go further. (revised edition, October 2005)
www.philanthropyuk.org/AGuidetoGiving
Why Rich People Give
(2004) www.philanthropyuk.org/Resources/WhyRichPeopleGive
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