Research, data and analysis for social good

We combine expertise in research and technology to support organisations working for social good to make evidence-based decisions

Research services

Our team are experts in neighbourhood level data. We:

  • Apply knowledge and understanding of knowledge about neighbourhoods
  • Bring together the strategic big picture as well as the local detail
  • Identify important issues and patterns from large datasets
  • Produce evidence-based, robust measure of need

Find out more about the services we offer and ways we can work together.

Research services

 

Local Insight

Local Insight provides instant access to place-based neighbourhood level data for the areas you care about.

Local Insight isn’t just software. We use the expertise of our researchers to provide full support in understanding and interpreting the data.

With a subscription to Local Insight you can:

  • Be confident that your team are using up-to-date data
  • Define your neighbourhoods and areas as they really are
  • Easily map, compare and report on your communities
  • Share information across your organisation and partners

Local Insight

Left behind neighbourhoods

Our research on left behind neighbourhoods suggests that multiply deprived areas, when combined with the absences of places to meet, the lack of an engaged community and poor connectivity, fare much worse than other deprived neighbourhoods.

Our ongoing work with Local Trust includes developing a quantitative measure of left behind neighbourhoods using open data and developing a Community Needs Index for the first time.

Left behind neighbourhoods