Malin Joneleit, Public Affairs Officer at The National Lottery Community Fund, reports on learning from a recent key conveners’ session, which explored the impact COVID-19 and the lockdown are having on victims of domestic abuse and the difficult work being done by charities and organisations to meet the heightened demand for services. Read more

Young People in the Lead advisory team member, Loren Townsend Elliot, talks about her journey to become a panel member and how youth voice can raise awareness of youth mental health issues. Read more

Nick Gardner, Head of Climate Action at the National Lottery Community Fund, summarises and reflects on a recent convening event on the community response to food distribution challenges during COVID-19. With summary of the event by Isobel Roberts. Read more

The combined evidence from three of our funding programmes that support people experiencing multiple disadvantage – Fulfilling Lives, Women and Girls Initiative and Help Through Crisis - shows, in many cases, that pre-existing disadvantage has become worse during COVID-19 and organisations have been rapidly adapting the support they provide. Read more

John Rose, our Director for Wales, reflects on the response of funders to the immediate challenges of COVID-19 and the longer-term implications for civil society in Wales. Read more

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

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

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

The campaign for the American mid-term elections is perhaps the last place you would expect to hear about the seaside village of Jaywick, Essex, and this somewhat bizarre campaign poster sparked understandable outrage at the stereotyping of a place that has, in recent years, undergone significant positive change. Read more