New Economics Foundation

NEF aims to create a new economy that works for people and within environmental limits.

For more than three decades, NEF’s mission has been to transform the economy so it works for people and the planet. We celebrate – and help to enable – the new economy springing up from below. But we also know that it needs support from above, including a state that prioritises people’s wellbeing and a healthy planet. So we work with people igniting change from below and we combine this with rigorous research to fight for change at the top.

Our work with communities making change on the ground tells us it is not enough to hand down policy solutions from above. We aim to democratise the process of policy making itself – through popular education, participation and organising. The policy solutions we develop are shaped by the lived experience of those on the sharp end of the old economy.

Working with other organisations, NEF aims to create a new economy that works for people and within environmental limits.