Economy & Work

With procurement in the spotlight, Helen Cunningham asks if it is time to take stock of what procurement should do, and what are realistic expectations. Procurement is a hot topic. With the effective scrapping of the National Procurement Service, a […] »

Our latest report, Prosperous valleys, resilient communities, calls on the Ministerial Taskforce for the Valleys to double its efforts. The south Wales valleys are home to approximately 800,000 people and 300,000 jobs. They make a substantial contribution to the Welsh […] »

The Taskforce for the South Wales Valleys should adopt economic resilience as a guiding principle, develop “anchor towns” and prioritise the heads and the “hearts” of the valleys In this report the Bevan Foundation examines the work of the Ministerial […] »

With the news of the closure of Ford Bridgend, Helen Cunningham reflects on the impact of job losses for local economies and asks if building economic resilience could play a role. The news of Ford’s decision to close its Bridgend […] »

The Bevan Foundation is pleased to announce its exciting new partnership with the Open University in Wales. The announcement comes during Learning at Work Week, with the Open University (OU) in Wales becoming the Bevan Foundation’s second confirmed organisational partner […] »

The dawn of devolution came with high hopes for the economic fortunes of Wales. Helen Cunningham looks the past 20 years and asks if the devolution dividend has been delivered.

Today, Helen Cunningham discusses social businesses and how Unltd is bringing them to the valleys. Social businesses, that is, businesses that put a social purpose at the heart of what they do, contribute about £2.37 billion every year to the […] »

Victoria Winckler wonders whether Wales has experienced an economic miracle or if it is just a mirage.   Last November something unprecedented happened. Tucked away in the Welsh Government’s statistics pages  is evidence of an economic miracle. In amongst the stats, it […] »

In January 2019, we began work on a project to build local economic resilience in the Heads of the Valleys. Governments have been attempting to regenerate the area for many years, with limited success.  Now, challenges such as automation and […] »

Victoria Winckler reflects on the Bevan Foundation’s outlook for 2019, published on 1st January. The champagne is drunk, the fireworks crashed to earth and resolutions made. What does the rest of 2019 hold for Wales? The outlook for the next […] »