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We recently hosted a conversation for small charities with those who fund and support them, to explore their social change role over the next 12-18 months. Seven things stood out from their reflections and the discussions that followed.
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Mike Aiken looks at how one Sussex charity - Sussex Interpreting Services - has re-designed their entire service, at short notice, to continue providing vital support during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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We are running peer support sessions that create space for VCSE leaders to relieve some of the stress and uncertainty they are facing, through advice and reassurance from their peers. Find out more here.
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We share the challenges to and pressures of cross-sector partnership working in healthcare settings during the pandemic.
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15 weeks ago, we proposed five principles to guide funders in rising to the challenge of the Covid-19 crisis. However, some VCSE organisations now report worrying signs of wobble and strain, even in the most open and agile of funders.
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Mike Aiken explores the current landscape for local community action and if the Covid-19 pandemic has stimulated or stifled it.
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Over the past 11 weeks, we’ve hosted peer support sessions for over 180 VCSE leaders across the UK. We’re publishing regular briefings about the challenges they are facing; we’ve also heard much about how these are being overcome. In celebration of Small Charity Week, we wanted to share six ways in which VCSE leaders are adapting.
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A group of Cumbria Funders supporting community-led emergency response work share their deliberations over what a sustained response to Covid-19 might look like.
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