How we work
Today Carnegie UK aims to improve collective wellbeing by influencing public policy and practice.
We do this by conducting research, advocating for our ideas and insights and bringing people together to explore current issues that affect collective wellbeing.
Our current strategy reaffirms our role as an organisation with wellbeing at the heart of our purpose and activities. In line with the approach we have taken since 2004, we operate as a policy foundation, meaning that we use our money to fund research and practice work rather than running open grant programmes.
We have a team of staff and trustees who are responsible for our operations and governance.
Our Strategy
For more than 100 years, our purpose has been to improve the wellbeing of people across the UK and Ireland.
Wellbeing has meant different things to different generations. What wellbeing means to us today is everyone having what they need to live well now and in the future; what we call “collective wellbeing”. We work towards this goal by informing and influencing public policy, both directly and by working with others who share our vision. We believe that collective wellbeing improves when governments embrace and pursue social, economic, environmental and democratic wellbeing outcomes giving them equal consideration in decision making.
Read our strategy to 2030Our values actively inform our work and inform how we interact with colleagues, collaborators and partners.
In all our work, it is important to us to be:
Motivated by change
We want to change people’s lives for the better.
Challenging
Social progress requires using research and evidence to speak truth to power.
Collaborative
We will build coalitions to tackle injustice and change systems.
Kind
We will put strong relationships and kindness at the heart of everything we do.
Our commitment to learning
We know that Carnegie UK’s contribution to the realisation of collective wellbeing is only one within a wider ecosystem of those working for social change. How this change happens is itself continuously evolving. We are therefore committed to investing time and resource into continuous learning and iterating our approaches as we go.
As a team we take pride in being curious and passionate about collective wellbeing, continuously seeking out the latest insight and evidence on this wide-ranging policy area and learning how it can be augmented. We are committed to embedding consideration of these questions in our practice:
- What are we learning about collective wellbeing?
- What are we learning about how change comes about?
Because we have a unique remit that extends to the whole of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, we draw our evidence base from a broad field and share the learnings widely and openly, nationally and internationally.
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