About The Future Governance Forum
Our mission: to transform the state to renew the nation.
FGF is more than a traditional, policy-focused think tank: we concentrate on the how as much as the what of policy design and implementation. We look to advance new approaches to progressive policymaking and delivery, with a focus spanning national, devolved, regional, and local government.
Since launching in November 2023, we have built a reputation based on the combination of smart politics, original thinking and a commitment to practical delivery.
Our approach is rooted in collaboration. With our experience and expertise in politics, public administration and policymaking across the UK, we convene across our networks to make detailed recommendations based on what works.
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 three-year strategy sets out how we will work to transform the British state, repair and rebuild the institutions, services and markets, and the values we live by and the methods and partnerships we will promote.
Our current programmes of work:
Vital Institutions
How can we reform existing state institutions and establish new ones so they are fit for purpose and built to last?
Better Services
How can we build public services that are faster, more reliable and built around people’s needs?
Progressive Markets
How can we rethink markets and unlock investment to renew the economy, and deliver for people and places?
Impactful Devolution
How can we meaningfully and permanently devolve power in one of the most centralised countries in the world?
Rethinking Migration
How might we deliver a more effective asylum system that sustains greater public confidence, while remaining consistent with the principles of international law and progressive values?
By prioritising these questions we are thinking about new progressive models of governance for the long-term.
Our values
- We are collaborative: We build with others to ensure that our work is compelling, useful, trusted – and adopted.
- We are inquisitive: We always ask why things are the way they are – and how they could be better.
- We are courageous: We are willing to take on tired systems and rhetoric, and say hard things kindly – in order to promote change that is real.
- We are practical: We turn ideas into clear, usable plans and tools that help people and organisations deliver meaningful change in the real worlds they inhabit.