Category Archives: Media Release

A paper from Social Market Foundation argues that the decline of traditional high street shopping is inevitable, meaning ministers should focus less on slowing that decline than on supporting new...

A new report from the SMF identifies the places at greatest risk of economic disruption over the next three years – and the areas that will find it hardest to...

The Social Market Foundation think-tank is urging politicians to back up environmental rhetoric with early action on household finances and jobs, and a sustained argument that “greener is cheaper”. Priorities...

Afolami, the Conservative MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, has drawn up plans for the Government to make major investments in small and medium-sized UK companies to help them recover from...

The Social Market Foundation also said that ministers preparing for a ‘green recovery’ from coronavirus should be ready to take more risks and spend public money up front to support...

The report by Social Enterprise UK (SEUK), which represents 100,000 businesses with social or environmental missions, has been published in partnership with the Social Market Foundation (SMF), a cross-party Westminster...

In briefing paper published today, the SMF has laid out a number of policy proposals designed to secure the future of parks in the UK, including exploring a greater role for the NHS.

The Social Market Foundation said that the next phase of the Covid-19 crisis could leave hundreds of thousands of people facing structural unemployment as whole sectors of the economy shrink...

The Social Market Foundation said that the huge economic cost of the emergency measures deployed to manage the epidemic must be shared fairly between old and young in the years...