Selected articles
Learning from our COVID Recovery Fund
27 July 2021
How we set out to design and build an evaluation learning framework for the Covid Recovery Fund.
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How to be wrong
05 May 2021
Nobody sets out to be wrong. But it's impossible to avoid error. And mistakes have value. We learn from them, perhaps more than we learn from what we get right.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation opens its Racial Equity funding for charities led by and for Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities
15 April 2021
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COVID: One Year On - The Young Women's Outreach Project
23 March 2021
One year since the first lockdown, Manager Neil gives an account of local charity, The Young Women's Project, and their journey to adapting their services to support young women in the community.
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Our approach to ringfencing a minimum of 25% of our funding for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
15 March 2021
Read more about how we are committed to ensuring that our funding portfolio is both distributed equitably and helps to address the needs of communities across England and Wales.
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Small and local charities can help challenge structural inequalities #IWD2021
08 March 2021
Our Public Affairs and National Programme Officer, Rachel Cain, reflects on what has changed for women and the sector since International Women's Day Public Affairs and National Programme Officer
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Census: It counts to be counted
02 March 2021
With many asked to complete The Census online, how many will be counted? And why does it matter?
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Paul Streets: When charity leaders invest in collaboration, society changes for the better
19 February 2021
Power sharing is not easy at a time when charities of all sizes face significant challenges – but the pandemic has taught us we are stronger together
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New report finds small charities showed up and stuck around to support people throughout the Covid 19 pandemic when others couldn’t
18 February 2021
Smaller charities played a key role in supporting people and communities throughout the pandemic in a way that public services and mutual aid could not, a new report has found.
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Our Experience of Participatory Grant Making in the COVID Recovery Fund
11 February 2021
To avoid changing the nature of the relationships we built we turned to participatory grant making as a way to share the power and shift decisions to a wider group who understood their community.
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