The Understanding Community Resilience in our Towns report has been published as part of HOPE not hate Charitable Trust’s Hopeful Towns project. The project aims to better understand what makes a place confident, optimistic and open, and to help towns across England and Wales to fulfil their potential. The Hopeful Towns project wants to address the root causes of hate, to stop divisive narratives from taking hold in the first place, and to promote policies that champion the value of towns.