I am not massively comfortable with it being November. There’s a large list of things that I need to get done before the end of the year, and I am starting to realise that they might not all happen… Board focus: done One thing that is done is our final board meeting of the year.
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Sometimes having a week off gives you the break you need. Sometimes it gives you a pile of work to catch up with. Sometimes it does both.
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An embedded researcher-led evaluation of the Cares Family network of volunteers and older neighbours in North and South London. Renaisi was commissioned to evaluate the impact of North London Cares and South London Cares’ community networks of young professionals and older neighbours hanging out and helping one another in a rapidly changing city. We had
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Hannah Woods, Gingerbread’s Head of Evaluation and Learning explains how the charity for single parents is working with Renaisi to use evidence to inform organisational strategies and learning. Gingerbread has been championing single parents for over a hundred years, but like many charities today, we face tough decisions about where we concentrate our efforts. Through
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What does it take to improve a place? Everyone has their place. On the most basic level, that place could be little more than a specific geography – a location, a dwelling, a spot. More often, places are about feelings. Who could argue that a ‘home’ is made up simply of bricks and mortar and
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