Building the Conditions for Health

This report brings together a decade of evidence from People’s Health Trust’s long-running Active Communities and Local Conversations programmes, alongside the Homes for Health pilot, Living Wage research, and a set of complementary thematic reports. Five evidence-based headlines run through the analysis, connected by the concept of collective control, the idea that when people in disadvantaged communities gain greater power over the decisions and conditions affecting their lives, health and wellbeing improve as a result.

15 October, 2026

Men's Health: Everybody's Business

Men are dying too young and spending more of their lives in poor health because services and systems are not fully meeting their needs. Our new report shows how businesses, statutory services, government & community organisations can work together for change.

15 September, 2025

Standing Together: The health impacts of the racist riots on communities, one year on

This report lays bare devastating health impacts of the 2024 racist riots on local people, communities, and grassroots organisations across Great Britain, based on testimony from over 50 community organisations supporting people tens of thousands of people.

24 July, 2025

How to survive during the winter?

The "impossible choices" faced by older people following changes to the Winter Fuel Payment. This report focuses on the views and experiences of local, trusted, grassroots, expert community organisations working directly with older people across Great Britain.

11 October, 2024

A community manifesto for health justice

The next government has the power to bring about a happier, healthier Britain, but avoidable health inequalities are undermining society’s physical and mental health as well as our social and economic future. Health inequalities are unjust and harming Britain.

12 December, 2023

"We were absolutely invisible": The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of grassroots voluntary and community sector workers

This report, based on data gathered from grassroots VCS organisations between April 2020 and February 2022, reveals heightened concern about the level of mental health support which VCS organisations are now having to offer.

23 June, 2022

The impact of the pandemic on communities experiencing disadvantage: latest findings

This report details the latest findings from our survey which asked funded partners about the impact of the pandemic on their organisation and project participants.

15 October, 2021

Working alongside local communities responding to COVID-19

This report is based on anecdotal evidence from 80% of People’s Health Trust funded partners. It identifies challenges projects have faced and how they have adapted to Covid-19 between March to May 2020.

10 July, 2020

The local Living Wage dividend

The report looking at the economic impact of paying the real Living Wage – the Local Living Wage Dividend - was commissioned by the Living Wage Foundation, and part-funded by People’s Health Trust.

25 February, 2022

Control and health inequalities: a review of theory and evidence for practitioners

This report, developed by one of People’s Health Trust’s learning partners, the New Economics Foundation (NEF), is a literature review of the evidence base around the relationship between collective control and health inequalities.

25 February, 2022

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