Blogs
Segun Olowookere reflects on what we have learnt about leadership through responding to Covid-19, and asks what will voluntary sector leadership look like in the future?
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Joined at the hip: Why you can’t make good grants without investing in learning
September 2020
Blogs
Learning within trusts and foundations is critical: balancing data with intuition; combining evidence with instinct. Here are four things evaluation and learning staff have shared, through the Evaluation Roundtable Community of Practice, that help make sense of how learning informs decision-making.
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This blog highlights the creative and thoughtful adaptations that our network of 32 NHS Trust volunteer teams have made to enable young people to continue volunteering during Covid-19.
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We hear from Jo Wells, Director of The Blagrave Trust, to understand more about their approach to remaining responsive and accountable to the needs of those that they are set up to serve – in their case, young people between 14 and 25.
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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 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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