Its programmes include work on well-being, its own kinds of measurement and evaluation, sustainable local regeneration, its own forms of finance and business models, sustainable public services, and the economics of climate change.

[3] The Jubilee 2000 campaign, strategised for and run by NEF,[4] collected 24 million signatures for its worldwide petition on development and poverty.

[6][7] In February 2010 the New Economics Foundation called for gradual transition to a working week of 21 hours.

[12] The organisation has launched a range of new organisations to promote its ideas, including the Ethical Trading Initiative, AccountAbility, Time Banking UK, London Rebuilding Society, the Community Development Finance Association, and others.

Its clone town campaign in favour of local economic diversity was covered two years running by every major national newspaper and TV news station and it was taken up in the Save Our Small Shops Campaign in the Evening Standard.