18th December 2025
A Neighbourly Lab Legacy Project Why Inclusive Green Spaces Matter Green spaces - parks, commons, gardens and woodlands - are crucial areas within our urban environments. They offer not only... 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
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: We have developed this guide to make it simple and easy for public sector teams to work with local customer facing businesses on the high street, such... 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
26th June 2025
By Rebecca Nichols At Neighbourly Lab, we define social infrastructure as the physical and digital spaces that support on- and off-line connection. This can include parks, food banks, community halls,... 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
27th May 2025
Congratulations to Hadley Property Group! Finalists for the 21st Annual Building London Planning Awards have been announced and our partners Hadley Property Group have been shortlisted for the BLPA Social Values and Community Engagement... Read more
24th April 2025
By Rebecca Nichols When connected, we are stronger. I had an amazing time attending the UCL Canvas event hosted at UCL East in Stratford. A huge thanks to the team,... Read more
23rd April 2025
In 2025, the context of delivering social housing is extremely challenging. Demands for the services are increasing with more and more people at risk of homelessness. In fact, recent analysis... 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 moreCopyright 2026. All Rights Reserved