28th November 2025
by Beth Worku-Dix, Mission Area Lead. New Beginnings, Shared Experiences Across the United Kingdom, new beginnings are always unfolding. Every day, people arrive seeking safety, opportunity, or simply a fresh... Read more
25th November 2025
By Ethan Geiger Having turned twenty four years old last month, I have found myself in a bit of a limbo, gradually aging out of the culture and identity of... Read more
21st November 2025
We’re proud to launch Revealing Social Capital — a new ethnographic report exploring how social connections shape people’s lives, and what helps communities build meaningful relationships across lines of economic... Read more
4th August 2025
Between 30 July and 5 August 2024, the UK experienced a wave of riots, protests, and civil unrest following a mass stabbing in Southport that tragically killed three children. False... Read more
22nd July 2025
Nesta, with support from Ethos Foundation, Neighbourly Lab and partners across the early years sector, have launched a high-level blueprint for how the new 'family hubs programme' can most effectively... Read more
11th July 2025
What is it? This image gallery is a collection of inspiring ideas that supermarkets and shops have developed to enable further support and social connection for their customers Who is it... Read more
11th July 2025
What it is: A guide for supermarkets to help recognise their assets for the community with steps on how to implement four different community value models in their stores. Who... Read more
6th July 2025
Join Neighbourly Lab Programme manager Annette Holman & Caroline Lee, (Senior Research Associate - Cambridge Public Health) as they explore for The Tackling Loneliness Hub findings from our two-year programme;... Read more
2nd July 2025
What it is: This report highlights opportunities residents have for finding support and/or social connection via their local shops and supermarkets. Insights from studies and trials have been developed into adaptable... Read more
2nd July 2025
Today we are sharing the insights and outputs from a two year funded programme Neighbourly Lab embarked on ‘Unlocking the role shops and supermarkets can play in supporting social connection’.... Read more
30th June 2025
By Aba Amihyia At the Tackling Loneliness Hub and Neighbourly Lab, we often talk about the importance of social connection - not just for the communities we serve, but for... Read more
25th June 2025
By Annette Holman We’ve all been on a learning journey! The past 2.5 years of the Volunteering Cities programme came to an end recently where we launched our insights report... Read more
25th June 2025
Commissioned by Spirit of 2012, our report offers rich insights into the Volunteering Cities grant programme—an initiative that supported four places to strengthen their cultural volunteering infrastructure following their bids... Read more
20th June 2025
By Annette Holman Where are our places of connection? We may often think of infrastructure in public services as where we connect; our schools, libraries, health centres, parks and community... Read more
24th March 2025
New research reveals that friendships across socioeconomic lines have a powerful relationship with future earnings and social mobility.The groundbreaking study funded by the Nuffield Foundation, analysed 6 billion friendships in... Read more
18th March 2025
By Annette Holman “No-one from the public sector has visited my store in the past 40 years.” This is what one business owner told me when I visited his family... Read more
7th March 2025
By Rebecca Nichols As we approach International Women’s Day, Rebecca Nichols, junior researcher at Neighbourly Lab, reflects on one of her stand out projects from last year - one which... Read more
4th February 2025
'Analysis and measurement-making for Local Area Belonging in London.' Funded by Impact on Urban Health (IUH) & the Greater London Authority (GLA), Neighbourly Lab embarked on a research project to... Read more
3rd February 2025
By Rickie Josen and Annette Holman As part of our work on ‘Unlocking Social Opportunities in Shops’ we worked with Asda in Small Heath, Birmingham transforming the former opticians in... Read more
31st January 2025
By Marnie Freeman We know that when a resource is less available, due to limited quantity or time, we tend to see it as more valuable. That’s why, when fun... Read more
13th November 2024
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