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How young volunteers were involved in a project to make over 50,000 surgical gowns for the Royal Free London, in response to a national shortage of personal protective equipment in March 2020.
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We need to find the confidence, skills and ways of working to operate effectively in our current environment, accepting that changing restrictions will feature in our lives for the foreseeable future.
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In the fifth of our learning from lockdown blog series, André Clarke and Emma Stevenson describe how Comic Relief is driving forward an approach to funding that is rooted in trust.
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Tahmed shares his experience of volunteering at Birmingham Children's Hospital during Covid-19. The hospital is part of a network of 30 NHS Trusts and their respective charities who have been welcoming young volunteers since early 2018.
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In the fourth of our learning from lockdown blog series, Kate Peters describes how the Community Foundation for Surrey has begun to embrace a different philosophy of grant-making: 'How you make grants is as important as what you fund'.
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In the third of our learning from lockdown blog series, Oliver French, from Lankelly Chase, reflects on what he and colleagues have been learning about what’s been made visible, possible and necessary as the covid-19 pandemic has unfolded.
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In the second of our learning from lockdown blog series, Himali Dave (Urban Movement Innovation Fund), reflects on what she and colleagues have been learning about how best to support organisations to create a collective impact.
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The first in our new series of blogs about learning from funding during Covid, Hazel Robertson reflects on The Robertson Trust's experience of funding during Covid.
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How Deborah La Gette and Louise Peacock (Social Prescribing Link Workers for Lytham St Anne’s Primary Care Network) set up a social prescribing service during lockdown.
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Eliza Buckley outlines why we are working with charities and funders to "translate words – ‘trust’, ‘speed’, ‘light touch’ – into visible, practical and durable changes to behaviour and practice" within grant-making.
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