News and blogs
Keep up with the latest news affecting small and local charities and views from our expert teams and partners.
Selected articles
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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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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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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You cannot go it alone
01 November 2022
How bringing together a variety of diverse voices and minds to work together can help achieve sustained change.
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Ngozi Lyn Cole and Bonnie Chiu: Two years later
26 October 2022
Bonnie Chiu and Ngozi Lyn Cole reflect on the Foundation's racial equity journey, two years on.
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Paying the cost of living
24 October 2022
Charities are stepping up to support people through the cost of living crisis, but they are dealing with increased pressures too, and it's important their role isn't taken for granted.
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Collaboration multiplies the ways that funders can achieve a positive impact
20 October 2022
"Collaboration multiplies the ways that funders can achieve a positive impact" Jim Cooke, Funders Collaborative Hub
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