Making an Economic case

These studies have all shown financial benefits and/or cost savings from community capacity building initiatives. We are keen to keep our bibliography 'alive' by adding new documents to it when we come across something particularly good, and we'd love you to help! Please contact us if you have read or know of a good document or piece of research that you think should be on the bibliography - help us to nourish it!

• Social Return on Investment analysis of Community Development
  This research undertaken by the New Economics Foundation found that investing £1 in community development delivers £3 of social value.
• Partnership for Older People Projects (POPP) report
  This evaluation found that for every extra £1 spent on the POPP services, there was approximately £1.20 in savings on emergency bed days. A wide range of projects resulted in improved quality...
• Economic Value of Volunteering
  This study, by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, found a social return of between £2 and £8 for every pound spent on volunteers.
• Volunteering England study into the value of volunteering
  Europe-wide research using the VIVA method showed returns of between 1.3 and 13.5 for every unit spent.
• Economic value of mental health promotion
  This study found that the total value of prevention of conduct disorders in a one-year cohort of children in Wales would be £247.5 million , with the total value of promoting positive mental health...
• Social Return on Investment analysis of the Expert Patient Programme
  This study found that for every £1 spent on EPP programmes in the Wirral, £6.09 of social return was created, in addition to the health benefits for participants.
• Economic case for mental health promotion
  This study found that for every £1 spent, £14.35 could be saved through school-based interventions to reduce bullying, £9.69 through workplace mental health promotion and £83.73 through...