Winston Allamby, a Community Partner with our multiple disadvantage programme Fulfilling Lives, and someone with lived experience,considers why it's so difficult for people with lived experience to move into senior leadership positions. Read more

Luke Maynard, Policy Manager at The National Lottery Community Fund reports on learning from a recent key conveners’ session on COVID-19 and its impact on Community Infrastructure organisations. Read more

With a recent survey showing that three quarters of people in the UK say the environment will be important to them in 2020, John Rose, our Director for Wales and environment lead, discusses our environment strategy. Read more

Peter Atherton, lived experience leader and founder of community interest company Community Led Initiatives, helped designed our Lived Experience Pilot programme. He explains the difference this made to his organisation’s funding journey. Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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