Alice Thornton, Head of Learning at Renaisi, reflects on the Community Business Fund’s interim evaluation report. The Community Business Fund is a funding programme to support the sustainability of community businesses. So far, so simple. But what makes it interesting and unusual – as well as difficult to evaluate – is that community businesses are diverse
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A guest blog by Civil Service Fast Streamer Emma Hardie reflecting on her placement at Renaisi. As part of the Civil Service Fast Stream I had the opportunity to take a six-month secondment in the non-profit sector. I was placed at Renaisi and these are my reflections on what I learnt while working at the
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Civil Service Fast Streamer, Emma Hardie’s reflections on her six-month secondment at Renaisi.
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Ennerdale Bridge is a small village in the Western Lake District. Eleven miles from Carlisle, it is as beautiful as it is remote. In 2011, when the only pub in the village was threatened with closure, residents came together and raised £67,000 in just eight days to keep it open. Buoyed by that success, they
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In 1902 George Gillett, the founder of The Peel (a charity working in Clerkenwell, London) and future Labour MP wrote that, in London, “the evils of poverty, overcrowding, intemperance and vice are to be found in some of their most aggravated forms, side by side with a world of pleasure and luxury rarely surpassed in
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