Please find below a list of useful reports and publications on the theme of Social Capital

	Active governance: The value added by community involvement in governance through local strategic partnerships (Publications) A review of the experiences of those involved in local strategic partnerships (LSPs) in England.
	Community Participation: Who Benefits? - Joseph Rowntree Foundation (Publications) Do polices that seek to promote community participation in the governance of services lead to better services, tackle disengagement and build social capital? This report uses three concepts: governance, participation and social capital to test out these claims.
	Connected and Collective: An Easy Guide to Social Capital, 1st Edition (Publications) This guide has been produced by the North East Social Capital Forum. It explains social capital, discusses why it is important, and how it can benefit communities, and gives some ideas of ways that you can get connected and act collectively. There is also a list of resources of other information and support on social capital.
	Inequalities in health: Is social capital the missing link? - Chris Drinkwater (Reports) Better Health, Fairer Health, the regional strategy on health and well-being for the North East has made a commitment to develop appropriate measures to allow publication of an annual regional progress report on social capital. Inequalities in health have remained stubbornly resistant to intervention and there is some evidence that, rather than narrowing, inequalities are widening. The seminar expolored the relationship between social capital and inequalities in health. Drawing on 12 years experience of the West End Health Resource Centre, the presentation also looked at practical ways of building social capital through engagement in activities. It suggest that commissioners across statutory agencies will need to be more imaginative if they are to build social capital and to reduce inequalities.
	Infed article - Social Capital (Publications) The notion of social capital is a useful way of entering into debates about civil society – and it is central to the arguments of Robert Putnam and others who want to ‘reclaim public life’.
	North East Social Capital Forum - Regional Economic Strategy Action Plan Consultation Response January 2007 (Reports) This document sets out the North East Social Capital Forum's response to the RES Action Plan.
	Social Capital and Foundations (Publications) This report presents the conclusions of the study 'Foundations and Social Capital', conducted by ECOTEC Research and Consulting Ltd on behalf of the Network of European Foundations for Innovative Co-operation (NEF) between September 2000 and September 2001.
	SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE WORKPLACE (Presentation) eaga plc describes how to build “partner engagement” as a way of building social capital among its workforce. In the latest presentation to North East Social Capital Forum, Dave Routledge, Operations Director eaga plc, explains their approach.
	Social Capital & Economic Development in the North East of England (Publications) Promoting Economic Inclusion Through Community Based Programmes and Projects
	Social cohesion and urban inclusion for disadvantaged neighbourhoods (Publications) Four research projects in Teesside, London, Liverpool and Nottingham have studied the physical and social qualities of disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the interaction between them.
	Sticking Together - social capital and local government (Publications) The results and implications of the Camden social capital surveys 2002 and 2005
	Summer of Discontent (Publications) Please find below a selection of reports from the Burnley, Oldham and Bradford riots in 2001.
	Sustainable neighbourhoods: the role of housing markets and community assets (Publications) This study assesses the sustainability of eight former coal-mining neighbourhoods in three South Yorkshire local authorities, a sub-region with excess housing supply.
	Understanding Women's Social Capital (Publications) This 2005 Global Exchange Forum Report maps some key issues for policy actors and women's organisations.
	Why Neighbourliness Matters (Presentation) Power Point slides from a recent Social Capital Forum event presented by Martin P Dudley.
	“Enhancing Social Capital : Lessons from Leicestershire” (Presentation/Publications) The guest speaker was Martin Gage, Chief Executive, North West Leicestershire CVS and Lead Officer for Stronger Communities, Leicestershire LAA. Martin showed how voluntary organisations in Leicestershire have measured social capital by training volunteer interviewers and established specialist posts in Councils for Voluntary Service to promote social capital at community level.