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JUMP for joy

4th November 2021 admin

Emily Dyson, Head of Communications at IVAR and Trustee at The JUMP:   At IVAR we often talk about how

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How can I stay inspiring and inspired?

2nd November 2021 admin

This series shares some of the challenges 12 long-term leaders have been exploring together over the past 18 months, in

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Bringing learning agendas to life: What Oak Foundation has learned so far

29th October 2021 admin

In our fourth blog from our learning in uncertainty series, Marta Arranz reflects on recent experiences and shares simple and

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How can I adapt my leadership style for a half-remote world?

26th October 2021 admin

This series shares some of the challenges 12 long-term leaders have been exploring together over the past 18 months, in

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Learning with intent: How to pay greater attention to how, why and from whom we learn

22nd October 2021 admin

In our third blog from our learning in uncertainty series, Nikki Wimborne from Cripplegate Foundation reflects on breaking free from

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Unrestricted funding: Where does it go and what difference does it make?

21st October 2021 admin

In early November, IVAR will be publishing research into why and how foundations give unrestricted funding. We’d like to invite

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What does succession planning mean, and how can you become ‘successor ready’?

19th October 2021 admin

This series shares some of the challenges 12 long-term leaders have been exploring together over the past 18 months, in

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Supporting a dynamic learning agenda across City Bridge Trust: Our present, vision and direction

15th October 2021 admin

In the second blog from our learning in uncertainty blog series, Donna Buxton from City Bridge Trust (CBT) reflects on

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How do I know if I’m staying too long?

12th October 2021 admin

This series shares some of the challenges 12 long-term leaders have been exploring together over the past 18 months, in

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Covid made us all into “learning organisations”

8th October 2021 admin

In the first blog of our learning in uncertainty series, Shoshana Boyd Gelfand reflects on what it means to be

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Planning in uncertainty

14th September 2021 admin

We’ve spent over a year reporting on leadership during the uncertainty of the pandemic, capturing the experiences of voluntary and

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How peer support helped Selby District AVS leader during 2020

13th August 2021 admin

IVAR introduction  Leaders of smaller voluntary organisations experienced a prolonged, and unprecedented, period of uncertainty during 2020/21 in the height

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How peer support helped Battle Scars leader during 2020

13th August 2021 admin

IVAR introduction  Leaders of smaller voluntary organisations experienced a prolonged, and unprecedented, period of uncertainty during 2020/21 in the height

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How peer support helped Willen Hospice leader during 2020

13th August 2021 admin

IVAR introduction  Leaders of smaller voluntary organisations experienced a prolonged, and unprecedented, period of uncertainty during 2020/21 in the height

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How to use learning questions

12th August 2021 admin

At IVAR, we recognise the value and importance of engaging people with varied viewpoints in our work, and listening to

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Communities need flexible funders to influence the public sector

29th July 2021 admin

Over the last three weeks, I’ve met 32 leaders of small and medium voluntary organisations at four online peer support

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‘Perfection was never achievable’ – Two Charity CEOs on leading in uncertainty

27th July 2021 admin

We’ve heard from 23 leaders during our recent peer support sessions. Here, two of those leaders share reflections about what

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What good looks like: Example of cross-sector working in Pennine

20th July 2021 admin

In Lancashire and South Cumbria, Pennine Lancashire is often cited as an example of good practice in cross-sector working in

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This is what applying for funding feels like

15th July 2021 admin

Introduction from IVAR   Much has been written about how funders acted differently in the context of the pandemic. Funded

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Three ways City Bridge Trust approached flexible funding during the pandemic

8th July 2021 admin

City Bridge Trust (CBT) have signed up to our eight commitments for open and trusting grant-making. They join us as one

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Experimenting and learning during a crisis: A voluntary sector perspective

16th June 2021 admin

These precarious times have created mounting pressures, huge challenges and uncertainty for the voluntary sector. At the same time, opportunities

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Having meaningful conversations about your funding approach

4th June 2021 admin

The Shears Foundation have signed up to our eight commitments for open and trusting grant–making. They join us as one

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How Chilli Studios were bold and experimented with tech

1st June 2021 admin

Chilli Studios shared their story with us for our latest report Response to change: how small voluntary organisations are using tech. Their

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How RASASC embraced a blended service model using tech

1st June 2021 admin

Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre (RASASC) North Wales shared their story with us for our latest report Response to

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How Integrate UK are working towards digital inclusion

1st June 2021 admin

Integrate UK shared their story with us for our latest report Response to change: how small voluntary organisations are using tech. Their

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How Saving Lives repurposed existing tech

1st June 2021 admin

Saving Lives shared their story with us for our latest report Response to change: how small voluntary organisations are using tech. Their

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Sad news about Jane Hatfield

28th May 2021 admin

We have received some very sad news – our inspiring and wonderful Chair, Jane Hatfield, has died from ovarian cancer.

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Summary of new briefing: Birds in a hurricane

25th May 2021 admin

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, we have spoken to over 1,000 voluntary organisations across our portfolio of research.

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Four lessons for funders from a complex and uncertain year

9th April 2021 admin

One year ago, on 9th April 2020, we published The pressures of uncertainty – the first of fifteen Covid-19 briefings for

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Pause, reflect and respond

12th March 2021 admin

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, the scale and pace of change has impacted the way we live and work. Although

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Two practical ideas to increase unrestricted funding

4th March 2021 admin

The William Grant Foundation have signed up to our eight commitments for open and trusting grant–making. They join us as

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Four ways now can be a moment for transformational learning

4th February 2021 admin

Since March 2020, funders and charities alike have learnt to work in a new way: remotely, and in extreme uncertainty.

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Health inequalities and Covid-19: How can we respond collaboratively?

29th January 2021 admin

In partnership with SEUK, IVAR hosted the Transforming Healthcare Together Virtual Conference on 17th and 18th November 2020. Panellists on

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Where to start when everything is so uncertain

15th January 2021 admin

In this 10-minute blog, Ben and Sara explore the idea of ‘alignment’ and how it could help trusts and foundations

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How can funders learn, meaningfully?

11th December 2020 admin

When persuaded to write this blog, I was asked to reflect on big transformational changes for 2021, no small task. It

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Making learning visible

11th December 2020 admin

What we have learned this year is that our Partners – those grantees with whom we have long-term, core funding relationships

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From isolation to opportunity – my story of adapting to Covid

4th December 2020 admin

What a surreal eerie time the last eight months have been and I can’t say I’m getting more used to

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Measuring what matters: Valuing the voluntary sector in East Sussex

27th November 2020 admin

How do you want to be judged? By how much you earn? By your kindness and humanity? It’s not an

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Never underestimate young potential

21st November 2020 admin

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHs Trust is part of a network of 30 NHS Trusts and their respective charities who have been welcoming

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The good, the bad and the future

20th November 2020 admin

At a recent Evaluation Roundtable Community of Practice session we asked what working practices people are hoping to retain from lockdown; and

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Hampstead Gown Factory: Creative roles for young volunteers

17th November 2020 admin

The Royal Free London is part of a network of 30 NHS Trusts and their respective charities who have been welcoming young volunteers since

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Four principles to shape your grant-making today

14th November 2020 admin

With months of local restrictions now extended to a national lockdown, it is clear that ‘Covid-recovery’ is far from us

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A funding approach rooted in trust

12th November 2020 admin

At a recent Evaluation Roundtable Community of Practice session we asked what working practices people are hoping to retain from lockdown; and

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My Volunteering Experience during Covid

11th November 2020 admin

Tahmed shares his experience of volunteering at Birmingham Children’s Hospital during Covid-19. The hospital is part of a network of

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How you make grants is as important as what you fund

5th November 2020 admin

At a recent Evaluation Roundtable Community of Practice session we asked what working practices people are hoping to retain from lockdown; and

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Old dogs, new tricks?

29th October 2020 admin

At a recent Evaluation Roundtable Community of Practice session we asked what working practices people are hoping to retain from lockdown; and

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The impact of COVID-19 on our grant making

22nd October 2020 admin

At a recent Evaluation Roundtable Community of Practice session we asked what working practices people are hoping to retain from

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Making ‘relational’ real: Our experience of funding during Covid

15th October 2020 admin

They say moving to a new house is one of the most stressful things you can do. For others it’s

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How we set up a social prescribing service during lockdown

13th October 2020 admin

As in many areas, the Social Prescribing Link Worker role is new in Lytham St Anne’s Primary Care Network. Two

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A simple ambition for grant-making: unrestricted and light-touch

24th September 2020 admin

Over the last decade there has been much talk of funders – particularly trusts and foundations – trying to become

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What has Covid-19 taught us about leadership?

11th September 2020 admin

In late June we hosted an informal discussion about leadership and how things have changed since Covid-19. We asked Segun,

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Joined at the hip: why you can’t make good grants without investing in learning

3rd September 2020 admin

All the italicised quotes here are taken from members of the Evaluation Roundtable Community of Practice – staff with lead

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New roles and adaptations for young hospital volunteers

25th August 2020 admin

Since April, we have facilitated a series of peer support sessions for Volunteer Coordinators from NHS Trusts. Through these sessions,

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Rethinking accountability in philanthropy

21st August 2020 admin

How accountable are you to the individuals and groups that you are set up to support? Not very, according to

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How can small charities be heard?

6th August 2020 admin

We recently hosted a conversation for small charities with those who fund and support them, to explore their social change

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Covid-19 in 50 languages

30th July 2020 admin

So, you’re feeling ill, it’s the middle of the Covid-19 lockdown, you don’t speak English and your mobile phone is

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6 reflections on collaboration during Covid-19

10th July 2020 admin

Since April, over 70 leaders from healthcare, VCSE and local authorities have joined IVAR and SEUK-run peer support groups, sharing

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Seeing with an applicant’s eye

8th July 2020 admin

15 weeks ago, we proposed five principles to guide funders in rising to the challenge of the unfolding Covid-19 crisis:

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Acting locally in the Covid-19 era

3rd July 2020 admin

Covid-19 has been like a viral version of globalisation. It’s the import and export of a deadly virus that pays

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Six challenges facing VCSE leaders during Covid-19

15th June 2020 admin

The welfare of their workforce How can they protect staff morale and wellbeing? How can they prevent staff burnout during

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Six ways VCSE leaders are adapting to Covid-19

15th June 2020 admin

Over the past 11 weeks, we’ve hosted peer support sessions for over 180 VCSE leaders across the UK. We’re publishing

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What would enable a sustained transformation in cross-sector working in the long term?

10th June 2020 admin

Recognising the tremendous pressure that health, VCSE and local authority leaders are under as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak,

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A place-based approach

9th June 2020 admin

A group of Cumbria Funders supporting community-led emergency response work share their deliberations over what a sustained response to Covid-19

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What it’s like to be a young hospital volunteer during Covid-19

4th June 2020 admin

Coronavirus or Covid-19 has brought both challenges and amazing new opportunities for our volunteers here at East Sussex Healthcare NHS

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‘There’s no expectation to learn everything at once which makes it much less nerve wracking’

4th June 2020 admin

Poppy Osman, a volunteer at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust: ‘My name is Poppy and I’m currently volunteering in the

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‘We need support, opportunities and inspiration’

4th June 2020 admin

Fizz McNally, a volunteer at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust: ‘I’m Fizz, I’m 19 and I’m a young volunteer in

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‘One common underlying driver … gets you through what could be deal breakers or show stoppers’

2nd June 2020 admin

Joanna Holmes is Co-Director of Wellspring Settlement which was formed out of a merger in February 2020 between Barton Hill Settlement and Wellspring

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‘You feel you are losing the organisation you have poured every part of your soul into … it’s tricky’

2nd June 2020 admin

Leah Swain is CEO of Community First Yorkshire, which was formed out of a merger in 2017 between North Yorkshire &

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‘Our challenge was to make one plus one equal more than two’

2nd June 2020 admin

Laurie Rackind is CEO of JAMI (Jewish Association for Mental Illness), which merged with Jewish Care in 2012: Isolation and

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‘It’s a fluid process and one I found took time to get used to’

2nd June 2020 admin

Ben Hughes was CEO of bassac which, in 2011, merged with Development Trusts Association to form Locality: I remember being asked

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Thinking about merger in 2020

1st June 2020 admin

This blog is complemented by a series of practitioner perspectives. IVAR has learned much over the last two decades about

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Merger: Practitioner perspectives

1st June 2020 admin

This blog shares four perspectives of practitioners who have led merger processes. We asked them to share their reflections for

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How can we – as funders – help communities to deal with the pandemic?

27th May 2020 admin

Over the past 15 months, we’ve been supporting grassroots, community-based grant-making in each of the four home nations through Comic

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Funders’ short-term focus on Covid-19 is creating a problem

14th May 2020 admin

POP+ has just run a survey of how charities, social enterprises and grassroots groups have been affected by Covid-19. I

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Covid-19: The diary of a small funder

8th May 2020 admin

The Sir George Martin Trust is based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire and was established in 1956 by my father-in-law’s uncle

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Leading through uncertainty: Lessons from the recession

21st April 2020 admin

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis, we have been scouring our collective histories (of research as well as lived

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Covid-19: How funders can support grantees responding to the pressures of uncertainty

10th April 2020 admin

Since the beginning of this crisis, we have been drawing on conversations with VCSE organisations and with individual foundations across

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Covid-19: How funders can ease reporting requirements

6th April 2020 admin

Funders across the UK are busy adapting their processes to better support their grantees and the wider sector in the

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Civic and community action in times of crisis

31st March 2020 admin

The outbreak of the coronavirus in the UK presents a shock that is without precedent for most of us. It

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Covid-19: Getting money quickly to frontline services

28th March 2020 admin

I blogged on Wednesday about the simple, immediate actions that funders can take – and many are already taking –

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Covid-19: What funders can do this week

25th March 2020 admin

Last week, IVAR and London Funders issued a joint blog on what was learned from the funding response to the Grenfell

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Covid-19: What can funders learn from previous emergency responses?

20th March 2020 admin

In 2018, IVAR and London Funders published a report looking at the key features of funders’ grant-making responses to the

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Silos and egos are holding back change!

16th March 2020 admin

Is the charity landscape increasingly blighted by silos and run by egos? Silos mean lots of people are working in

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From disused bus stop to community hub

3rd March 2020 admin

Stainsacre is a Yorkshire village 2 miles from Whitby where transport via bus has stopped due to cutbacks. This has

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Calling all funders! Help us test a new risk framework

27th February 2020 admin

Our recent studies The possible, not the perfect and Duty to Care? observed that ‘too much caution can narrow the

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Stepping outside the normal – the Tudor Trust and small grants in Hartlepool

26th February 2020 admin

In June 2019, a team of Tudor Trust staff and trustees visited Hartlepool to test out a way of paring

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Becoming a learning organisation – learning as a set of small, easy to introduce, habits

5th February 2020 admin

The Center for Evaluation, based in Washington DC, have pioneered a “learning habits” approach to becoming a learning organisation. In

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Closing well: Ending the work of a ‘spend-out’ trust

31st January 2020 admin

From the outset, the Trust was designed as a spend-out organisation. From day one, we have been planning for closure.

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5 things that help system leaders ‘have difficult conversations’

22nd January 2020 admin

In order to change the culture within a health and care system, health, voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors (VCSE)

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The power of reporting by film: Three things to think about

20th November 2019 admin

Vita Terry (IVAR Senior Researcher) reflects on using film to document the process and progress of an intergenerational dance project

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What are the best & worst things about grant reporting? Have your say!

17th October 2019 admin

Reporting on grants is an important but often difficult part of the relationship between the funder and funded organisation. However,

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Failing Forward

4th September 2019 admin

At Coast and Vale Community Action, through our Totally Socially project, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, we have

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Sleepout or sleep in: keeping up with the new funding environment

28th August 2019 admin

Streetlife took part in our Duty to Care? research project. We asked them about their recent experience of working with

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Developing instrumental, long-term relationships

21st August 2019 admin

Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit took part in our Duty to Care? research project. We asked them about their recent

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Strong roots with funders make community gardens blossom

14th August 2019 admin

Culpeper Community Garden took part in our Duty to Care? research project. We asked them about their recent experience of

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Strong relationships, good fun and an awful lot of cake

7th August 2019 admin

Rotherfield St Martin took part in our Duty to Care? research project. We asked them about their recent experience of

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Managing our community asset in an era of austerity

31st July 2019 admin

Katherine Low Settlement (KLS) is a multi-purpose charity in Battersea, South West London, which provides services to build stronger communities

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What does ‘learning’ mean for UK Trusts and Foundations?

24th July 2019 admin

What is it like to hear how others perceive your approach to learning? Pears Foundation and Corra Foundation have kindly

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5 things that help communities turn ideas into action

19th July 2019 admin

Totally Socially is an excellent example of how local infrastructure organisations are supporting voluntary and community groups to thrive. The

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Start somewhere (and build on what you learn)

17th July 2019 admin

We approached our study into whether ‘tech’ is imaginable and usable for small voluntary organisations in three phases, where each

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