Social Research ¦ Market Research ¦ Behavioural Insight ¦ Evaluation ¦ SROI
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Loneliness and social isolation are worse for your health than smoking 15 cigarettes per day, alcohol consumption, inactivity and obesity. A social prescribing programme was set up to address this in the West Midlands.
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Between 2018-2020, M·E·L Research carried out an evaluation of four National Lottery Community Fund projects tackling loneliness and social isolation amongst residents in Castle Vale, Pype Hayes, Birches Green and Bromford.
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Golding Homes owns and manages 7,400 properties in and around Maidstone. Like many housing associations and council housing departments, it carries out regular customer satisfaction surveys. In 2018, we were commissioned to carry out a survey of tenants and residents (STAR), to understand resident satisfaction with their homes and the services Golding Homes provides.
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With the public agenda currently being very much around making efficiencies and reducing unnecessary spend, many organisations are looking to reduce their spend on surveys such as customer satisfaction programmes; however in the meantime, increasing customer satisfaction remains to be a central focus of their corporate plans.
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The British Red Cross developed the Home from Hospital Service to address the issues of delayed discharge of inpatients and avoidable re-admissions to A&E departments. The service is for inpatients who are medically ready to leave St Thomas’ Hospital, but have a delayed discharge as they require support to return home and to avoid re-admission to hospital.
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Worcester Stands Tall (WST) was a mass participation public art event that took place in Worcester city centre from July to September 2018. 57 giraffes, large and small, stood colourful and proud in Worcester.
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Groundwork West Midlands received funding from the What Works Fund to deliver a community-led mentoring model, named the #FinancialChampions programme.
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Great Yarmouth Borough Council has seen hotspots of local problems with a concentration of privately rented properties. Pockets of private rented properties are often linked to a high turnover of residents, poor property conditions and anti-social behaviour.
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In 2018 M·E·L Research was commissioned by Macmillan to carry out a formative and summative evaluation of the Macmillan Integrated Therapy Service at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.
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The Private Rented Sector (PRS) in England has grown from 1 in 10 households in 2004 to 1 in 5 households in 2017. Local data for Bath and North East Somerset (BANES) gathered in 2017 indicated that the PRS in BANES is higher than the national average and growing quickly, now accounting for 27% of dwellings in the district.
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Councils up and down the country are continuing to have their budgets reduced therefore they need to make some difficult decisions about the level of services they can continue to provide in the future.
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Recycle for Wales (RfW) is a campaign to encourage people in Wales to recycle more things more often, from all around the home. RfW worked with Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council to deliver a food recycling campaign, aimed at boosting the authority’s overall recycling rate to help the Council reach its target. M·E·L Research was commissioned to carry out a targeted doorstep engagement campaign to increase the quantity and quality of food waste collected.
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Leeds was identified in 2015 by DEFRA as one of six locations in England that is not expected to meet air quality standards by 2020, and therefore required the introduction of a charging Clean Air Zone (CAZ), alongside other additional measures.
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In 2018, four CCGs formed the Greater Nottingham Clinical Commissioning Partnership. The new arrangements are part of the Nottingham & Notinghamshire Integrated Care System.
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In 2016 M·E·L Research was commissioned by NHS Nottingham City CCG to carry out an evaluation of the effectiveness and impact of an innovative 18 month Community Clinic Prostate Cancer Pilot.
