About Pragma

Founding-drafts status

Pragma does not yet exist as a constituted body. The Charter and Method are published as founding drafts for public review and challenge - in the same spirit they ask of government: early, in the open, and ready to be improved.

The Problem Register contains 13 entries scored against the seven-dimension method. Four have so far been developed into full implementation-ready policy products: the National Employment Service (entry 12), adult social care (entry 3), water and monopoly utility regulation (entry 7), and local government finance (entry 1). The National Employment Service was the first.

What Pragma is

Pragma is an independent, evidence-led, non-partisan policy institute. Its purpose is to identify the UK's hardest and longest-unsolved public problems - those that markets and private capital will not resolve on their own - and to develop implementation-ready policies that a government could act on without delay.

Funding transparency

Pragma holds itself to a higher transparency standard than the organisations it is a counterpoint to. Every funder of £1,000 or more is named publicly, with the amount disclosed in bands. No anonymous money is accepted. No single donor may provide more than 10% of annual income.

The full commitments are set out in section 7 of the Charter. They are binding and are not subject to the discretion of staff or trustees.

There are four ways to contribute from the outset. See how to get involved.