About ResPublica

ResPublica is an independent, non-partisan think-tank established in 2009 by Phillip Blond to create bold solutions to enduring social and economic problems.

Our vision is of a radical, progressive centre ground. We aim to show how government, business and civil society can work better together for the benefit of all, by creating an enabling state, a truly free market that offers access to all, and a culture of social innovation and transformation.

We create and research ideas and solutions that gain traction with politicians of all sides, industry experts, print and broadcast media, in six major units: Economy, Welfare and Public Services, Environment, Children and Families, Security, and Innovation. Our policy publications, videos, web based pieces, conferences, and speeches use insight from social policy methods, economic modelling, behavioural studies and technological innovation to engender wide-ranging debate, as does our ideas blog, The Disraeli Room.

Our Members Network is crucial to our approach. It includes leading businesses and practitioner bodies, and is supplemented by an extensive group of distinguished fellows, and our advisory board, still being expanded, which currently consists of Oliver Letwin MP, Zac Goldsmith, Greg Clark MP, James Forsyth of The Spectator, John Hayes MP and Stuart Etherington of the NCVO.

You can get involved by:

• Joining our Members Network. Our member events encourage strategic discussion and decision making. They include our monthly members' dinner, held with a selection of the most influential and innovative minds in politics and strategy, in the heart of Westminster.
• Supporting and funding our research, or by suggesting an issue that we might explore, which resonates with important policy concerns, and which is germane to Britain's social or economic renewal
• Making a donation, which will directly support ResPublica's ambitious programme.

A personal message from Phillip Blond

"I set up ResPublica to create the ideas and the policies that lead to social, economic and political transformation.

"I believe that together we can create a better state that empowers rather than enervates; a renewed economy with a truly free market where we all can prosper; and an innovation society that liberates people through ownership and entrepreneurship.

"It is time to rediscover our common traditions; of business, Government and civil society working together. ResPublica will continue to lead the way towards a radical, innovative future, and with your support we will get there."

Phillip Blond