News and blogs
Keep up with the latest news affecting small and local charities and views from our expert teams and partners.
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Where compassion meets results: charities get top marks from their clients
24 July 2025
Here, Nicole Sykes shares how small charities are making a big difference, and what Lloyds Banking Group’s latest research tells us.
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Finding the Good: How commissioning in Wales can work better for everyone
11 July 2025
Our Finding the Good project sparked important cross-sector conversations about how to improve commissioning in Wales so that everyone can get the support that they need, when they need it.
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New survey for criminal justice charities – help us understand the challenges and opportunities of the funding landscape
09 January 2025
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) are running a survey to help us learn more about how charities working with the criminal justice system fund their vital work.
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How charities can respond when local authorities are in financial difficulty
13 November 2024
We have issued guidance for charities in areas where the council issues a section 114
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Mapping and understanding funding flows to the criminal justice voluntary sector
06 August 2024
Lloyds Bank Foundation is funding New Philanthropy Capital to deliver a new research project.
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New Economics Foundation leading on research into the distinctiveness of by-and-for organisations
24 July 2024
Find out more about our new research partner and how they are approaching this project looking at the distinctiveness of by-and-for organisations.
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Foundation urges businesses to take part in skilled volunteering to help strengthen charities and gain mutual benefits
03 June 2024
Skills based volunteering has the potential to revolutionise corporate social responsibility, providing significant advantages to businesses, employees, and charities, according to our new report.
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What do our applicants and charity partners think about us?
23 May 2024
We’ve been working with nfpResearch since 2013 to run biannual surveys so we can hear from both successful and unsuccessful applicants and use their feedback to improve our processes.
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Criminal justice funding flows to the voluntary sector – could you help us figure out the who, what, why, and how?
23 April 2024
We’re accepting research proposals for a new project exploring funding flows for voluntary sector organisations working with the criminal justice system – could you join us?
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How the Charity Excellence Framework can help small charities
01 February 2024
To help small charities develop, we piloted the use of the Charity Excellence Framework (CEF) to help charities identify areas they want to prioritise so that we can find the right support for them.
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