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Social Action Publications

The Council on Social Action brings together innovators from every sector to generate ideas and initiatives through which Government and other key stakeholders can catalyse, celebrate and develop social action.

We consider ‘social action’ to include the wide range of ways in which individuals, communities, organisations and businesses can seek through their choices, actions and commitments to address the social issues they care about.

The Council on Social Action has produced the following series of publications which are available to download:

• Willing Citizens, CoSA Paper No. 1, January 2008 [PDF 223KB, 16 pages]
• Side by side: a report setting out the Council on Social Action’s work on one-to-one, CoSA Paper No. 2, November 2008 [PDF 735KB, 56 pages]
• Side by side and the implications for public service, CoSA Paper No. 3, November 2008 [PDF 227KB, 18 pages]
• Collaborative Commitments, CoSA Paper No. 4, written by Prof David Grayson, Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility on behalf of CoSA, November 2008 [PDF 226KB, 12 pages]
• Council on Social Action: Commentary on Year One, CoSA Paper No. 5, November 2008 [PDF 352KB, 36 pages]