Blog posts
Looking for colour, context and perspective about the work of The National Lottery Community Fund, its impact on communities and topics currently in the news? It’s all here. This blog will explain, explore, showcase and examine the ways in which civil society, and as a result the sector, is changing. Read about what people in communities across the UK and sector thought leaders have to say and form your own opinion.
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I’m for worldwide youth action on climate change: our #TimeIsNow
5 September, 2019
Climate activist and Our Bright Future Youth Forum Member Ummi Hoque recently helped us launch our Climate Action Fund. In this blog she explains why she’s using her voice and taking action with her peers to save our planet. Read more -
Turning climate action aspirations into reality: the promise of the Climate Action Fund
2 August, 2019
Communities have many ways in which they might tackle social, financial and environmental challenges. But what they need now is the support, funding and guidance that the Climate Action Fund will offer. Read more -
Lived experience leadership, the third sector and the power imbalance quandary
29 July, 2019
The lack of lived experience representation in positions of power in the sector points to apathy and a fear of changing and adapting service models to better suit the progressive nature of today’s society, says Comics Youth’s Managing Director, Rhiannon Griffiths. Read more -
Think people (not problems) to address homelessness issues
3 July, 2019
By working in genuine partnership, where all parties work to a common goal and support each other’s progress and challenges, we can provide better and more effective pathways out of homelessness. Read more -
Lived experience & the third sector: how do we navigate a work in progress?
3 July, 2019
The National Lottery Community Fund’s Strategic Framework, People in the Lead, believes that with people in the lead communities thrive, and we’ve worked hard to think about how we reflect lived experience in our approach. Read more -
How do we ensure people with first-hand lived experience of social issues are in leadership positions?
1 July, 2019
Treating lived experience as narrative fuel for social change might well be effective in capturing the attention of the wider public, but it has the simultaneous effect of marginalising and pigeonholing the very voices that provide that fuel. Read more -
How do we inspire meaningful connections in our communities?
21 June, 2019
People can experience loneliness at any point in their lives. For those people who have lost connections, it’s daunting to get out and meet people and make new friends. So how do they do that? Read more -
How the growing taste for a key ingredient in civil society’s fortunes is shaping social investment lending
4 June, 2019
Once upon a time, philanthropy was the key ingredient underpinning efforts to catch people at risk of slipping through the gap between the power of the state, the market and the reach of social networks to address need. But in 2019, things look a bit different. Read more -
Shared ambition & belief: a new basis for bonding between funders & charities?
13 May, 2019
Our aim is to ensure that applying for and receiving funding is much more like an equal relationship between charities and funders. In this blog, Dan Paskins looks at how charities and communities have shaped our new funding approach. Read more -
How our new Past Grant Search fed Google’s hungry spider
14 March, 2019
The inside story of how we rebuilt our past grants search tool and added over half a million pages to Google in the process Read more
Matt Andrews
Senior Developer