News and blogs
Keep up with the latest news affecting small and local charities and views from our expert teams and partners.
Selected articles
Unrestricted grants: how are they being used?
21 June 2023
We reviewed 312 monitoring reports form charities to understand how they’re spending their unrestricted grant
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The consequences of our failure on Refugees
19 June 2023
Today is the start of Small Charity Week and Refugee Week so I thought it would be good to highlight the work of small charities on one of the toughest issues.
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Building on our work in Wales.
14 June 2023
We work with charities in Wales to ensure that people with the lived and learned experience of complex issues can raise their voice and effect wider change
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Paul Streets: Bringing unlikely partners together
14 June 2023
A trip to Middlesbrough showed there is real power in uniting organisations from different worlds around a shared commitment
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New £1.8 million grant fund to influence national policy launches
16 March 2023
Charitable organisations seeking to influence and achieve change in national policy and practice in relation to accommodation, social security and refugees and asylum seekers can apply for funding
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How do we prioritise what we do when we can’t reach everyone?
03 March 2023
It’s the existential question all charity leaders face. Or should
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Sharing insights on the (in)adequacy of social security
31 January 2023
Rachel Cain from our Policy Team explains one of the ways we have been sharing evidence with MPs to advocate for change in social security
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COVID-19 has left many of us re-examining what we do
07 December 2022
But funders do appear to be better prepared to respond the cost-of-living crisis than before the COVID-19 pandemic
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Applications open: Lloyds Bank Foundation gives £5.5m to small specialist charities
29 November 2022
Specialist charities with an annual income between £25,000 and £500,000 can apply for a three-year, unrestricted grant of up to £75,000
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Charity concerns over rising inflation and utility bills
03 November 2022
Our Regional Manager, Gary Beharrell, shares his recent conversations with charity partners facing increased pressures
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