News and blogs
Keep up with the latest news affecting small and local charities and views from our expert teams and partners.
Selected articles
Our approach to designing the Deaf and Disabled People's Organisations funding programme
19 July 2023
We discuss co-designing our d/Deaf and Disabled People's Organisation programme and changes we have made to our approach to funding
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What the data tells us about the small charity landscape
23 June 2023
We refresh the data available on SmallCharitiesData.org whenever possible. Here are some of our key findings from our most recent refresh this Small Charity Week 2023.
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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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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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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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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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