About The Future Governance Forum
Our mission: to reform the state to renew the nation.
FGF was set up to advance new approaches to progressive policymaking and delivery, with a focus spanning national, devolved, regional, and local government.
We are more than a traditional think tank. We concentrate on the how as much as the what of policy design and implementation. Through our research and our convening power – the forum at the heart of our project – we not only develop new ideas, but test and iterate them in practice.
Our approach is rooted in collaboration. We work closely with partners across our shared ecosystem and build new networks bringing together practitioners and diverse voices from across sectors, borders and tiers of government, facilitating insight-sharing and driving forward the ideas we advocate.
Drawing on our team’s deep expertise and wide-ranging experience, we develop practical, innovative solutions that help those in power turn policy into practice.
Our current programmes of work:
In Power
How can we reimagine government to make it fit for the multi-dimensional challenges of the mid-21st Century?
Mission Critical
How can we translate mission-driven government from ambition into action?
Impactful Devolution
How can we meaningfully and permanently devolve power to nations and regions in one of the most centralised countries in the world?
Rebuilding the Nation
How can we utilise innovative models of public and private investment to spur growth and rebuild our crumbling infrastructure?
Institutional Renewal
How can we reform existing state institutions, and establish new ones, so they are fit for purpose and built to last?
By prioritising these questions we are thinking about new progressive models of governance for the long term.
Our values
We are practical: We make recommendations that we know will work, because we have rigorously tested them and we have built on the practical lessons of those with first-hand experience of design and delivery.
We are political: We are acutely conscious of, and attuned to, the political context in which we operate so our recommendations are never naive or easily dismissed. We maintain extensive networks and strive to be as politically literate as possible.
We are progressive: We are non-partisan but we are not neutral. We want to see the state work so that it delivers progressive outcomes: a fairer – and more productive – economic system, with greater equality of opportunity, aspiration and fairness baked into the system. We are unashamed in our pursuit of that as opposed to more reactionary or populist outcomes.