Guest blog, Emma Hardie: Learning from an organisation ‘in the middle’.
Civil Service Fast Streamer, Emma Hardie’s reflections on her six-month secondment at Renaisi.
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Vidhya Alakeson: Better places through community business
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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Thomas Neumark: There’s mixing and there’s mixing
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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Bethia McNeil: Collective change and collective impact
I work in the business of measuring and understanding change. I do this because I believe that understanding whether and how the work of the social sector creates change will improve that same work. It’s an interesting tension that improving how the social sector relates to and engages communities (arguably its primary role) might not
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Steve Stillwell: You’re only young once!
Places are about communities and communities are about people. Most people would agree that everyone would benefit from improved knowledge and confidence when it comes to dealing with our finances. Financial decisions people make will have an impact on their present and future lives as well as that of their family and their community. For
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