As part of the Social Investment team, Lena leads on investments across care, work, and place-based initiatives. Prior to joining JRF, she spent 10 years at RSM, a global financial services firm.

Dominika manages operational activities and supports process improvements across portfolio management and investment origination in the Social Investment Team. She joined us from Timewise, a flexible ...

Hannah joined JRF in June 2025 as Director of People, leading the development and delivery of our People Strategy and managing HR activity including recruitment, reward, HR policy and learning and ...

Sophie is a Principal Communications Strategist at FrameWorks UK, working with mission-driven organisations to reframe social issues. Sophie has been working on the Talking about Homes project for the ...

A national care strategy must put unpaid carers at its centre, supporting their choice to care or not through well-funded services, and valuing their skills to improve care quality.

The Government has proposed the largest cuts to social security since 2015. As well as reducing expenditure on health-related benefits, the Government hopes these reforms will support more disabled ...

As climate changes, economies stagnate or slow, and colonial patterns of exploitation continue — can creative, critical imagination navigate beyond today’s multiple crises?

Example 2: A newly out of work recipient of PIP and the health-related element of Universal Credit Richard is aged over 25 and lives on his own in private rented accommodation. He is not in work due ...

Note: We originally made estimates for 2023/24 but have since updated them annually. A method note explaining the changes for 2025/26 can be downloaded below. A stronger minimum in the system If UK ...

Figure 1 also shows the proportion of individuals in the UK who were living in households with incomes below 75% of what is needed for a minimum socially acceptable standard of living between 2008/09 ...

The causes of poverty are things that reduce your resources or increase your needs and the costs of meeting them. Some of these causes can also be consequences, creating a cycle that traps you. Life ...