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A series of updates are available that give more detail of the evidence basis drawn on by the funders for this codifying report. https://lnkd.in/eDE2aJNm Mindful that #systemchange also includes engagement with and challenge to established perspectives about #evidence, we are interested in using these emerging insights to support wider dialogue about system change, including the place of evidence within it. In particular this learning partner report shares thinking about how to evaluate system change and offers emerging evidence of impact so far. https://lnkd.in/eeGitNbD Jo Kennedy Douglas McKelvie

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📢 The VocTech Challenge IMPACT NETWORK + GRANT FUND opens TOMORROW (11 June) 💡 Join a network of organisations working alongside each other as part of an active, expert-led programme designed to create connections, share knowledge, test assumptions and accelerate adoption and deployment. 💰 Grants of £200-£250K for collaborative applications and bold ideas for how tech can tackle one of 3 specific challenges and help to #GetAdultsLearning. 1. Employer integration: How can technology be used to integrate and reflect employers’ changing needs so that the skills of the available workforce better reflect the needs of local employers? 2. Pathways into and within work: How can technology be used to increase the visibility, accessibility and uptake of pathways from learning into work, or from one type of work into another, particularly in regional growth sectors? 3. Vocational language barriers: How can technology be used to support adults with in-demand vocational skills, but who don’t speak English as their first language, gain the industry-specific English required by employers? #grants #skills #edtech #voctech

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Love these tips for co-production. It is everything we strive to do working with the 3 conversation model. Co-production is so important, particularly with reablement approach as well.

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🚀 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🚀 📢 Calling all organisation's in Doncaster! The grant application window is now OPEN for Multiply, the dynamic new national programme aimed at enhancing adult numeracy skills and boosting confidence. Thanks to a generous investment from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, through the Government's UK Shared Prosperity Fund, this initiative is set to make a real difference within Doncaster for residents. If you're an organisation passionate about empowering adults with various essential numeracy skills , this is your chance to shine! 🌟 Here's what you need to know: ✅ Grant applications are now being accepted. ✅ The Multiply programme targets adult numeracy skills enhancement and confidence-building. ✅ With a substantial investment, this initiative is poised to create lasting impact. ✅ Doncaster-based organisations, this is YOUR opportunity to be part of a transformative project. ✅ 4 Intervention areas that cover the grant specification. * Innovative numeracy programmes delivered together with employers – including courses designed to cover specific numeracy skills required in the workplace. * Courses aimed at people who can’t apply for certain jobs because of lack of numeracy skills and/or to encourage people to upskill in numeracy order to access a certain job/career. *Courses for parents wanting to increase their numeracy skills to help their children and help with their own progression. *Numeracy activities, courses or provision developed in partnership with community organisations and other partners aimed at engaging the hardest to reach learners – for example, those not in the labour market or other groups identified locally as in need. Don't miss out on this incredible chance to make a difference while advancing your organisation's mission. Here is a preview of one of our providers who delivered various workshops within the last financial year. https://lnkd.in/euD8dA5V  Apply now and be a catalyst for change in Doncaster! 💼💡 Contact the Multiply Team at Doncaster Council to request an application. Email: Multiply@doncaster.gov.uk Claire C. Nikki Flett Dani Adams PhD Samantha Whitaker James Sandford Debbie Ormshaw Ruth Precious South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority #MultiplyProgramme #GrantOpportunity #NumeracySkills #DoncasterCommunity #Empowerment #UKSharedProsperityFund #skillsForLife

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Mass participation fundraisers need to demonstrate green credentials to attract young people. We explore how organisations can make their events sustainable. 🔗 Read the full article here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ezjpfPTY #CharityDigital #Sustainability #NonProfit

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Impact investments are investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Learn how donors can use the assets in their donor-advised funds (DAFs) to make impact investments, which can in turn be granted. #ImpactInvesting #Philanthropy #DAFs #DonorAdvisedFunds

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Alert - really useful webinar by the Lep team on innovation programmes for ag tech, food tech seafood etc and it’s supply chain . Send someone along if your thought about accessing innovation funding. Please share

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The messages in The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) new Underfunded and Overlooked report (https://lnkd.in/eKzhb9tp) really hits a nerve at SNAPS Yorkshire CIO as a medium sized charity. At SNAPS, demand for our services has never been higher. This is due to a combination of factors that include many statutory services being cut as well as other local charities having to make the difficult decision to reduce service delivery or close their doors completely. Our families simply have nowhere else to go. Alongside this, funding of small charities has reduced by £4.6 billion post pandemic, whilst costs continue to rise (the report states a 12% increase in costs for small charities). Anyone can do the maths to work out increasing demand, decreasing funds and rising costs simply isn’t sustainable. As Chair of the West Yorkshire Children’s Additional Needs Network (WYCANN), I know that these pressures are being felt by all small to medium sized third sector organisations. We know of many organisations who have had their local authority funding slashed at a time when competition for independent grants has never been higher. This leaves many of these vital community services at real risk of closure which will have a huge impact on their communities and in turn will increase the demand that our social services and NHS face. SNAPS is quoted in the report regarding this issue: “Post-pandemic especially, we have a rising number of families tell us that SNAPS is the only place they can go to for support. The need for great, local, charities has arguably never been higher, and unfortunately, it is extremely likely that more will have to close in the near future due to rising pressures and funding challenges.” Grassroots groups and charities are the organisations who REALLY understand what is needed by their communities and are fleet of foot enough to meet that need quickly and effectively. We see that at SNAPS every day, with our families continually telling us just how important our services are to them. In addition to the adverse effects on the third sector, this chronic underfunding and immense increase in demand is having a huge effect on the people who work in small to medium charities. Sadly, I think we will continue to see fantastic people leave the sector as the pressures of delivering these vital services with our hands tied only grow in the future. Change is urgently needed, and we hope to part of that change going forwards. Ben Robinson

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Fantastic news - a joint bid by Suffolk County Council and Norfolk County Council has secured funding to support the region’s digital tech ecosystem. The funding is from the Barclays Eagle Labs partnership programme and will be used to deliver ‘The Future’, a joint project which aims to support and scale digital technology innovation in Suffolk and Norfolk. It’s another success for our Connected Innovation project - the country’s largest innovation network. And it will be delivered by two outstanding partners - Akcela Ventures and Innovation Labs Group The Future will: 🏠 Grow a network across the entrepreneurial stack, engaging individuals from thinking of starting a high-growth business to investors looking to support them. 🚀 Support high potential start-ups with focussed support from successful entrepreneurs and an ecosystem of support. 💰 Early-stage seed funding for ideas with high-growth potential (creating more opportunities for founders from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds). Roberta Willner Katie Snell James Allen Mike Rigby Julian Munson Matthew Jones Jai Raithatha Peter Ballard James Charles Adams Peter Brady Peter Basford Fabian Eagle FLAA Norfolk Chambers of Commerce Suffolk Chamber of Commerce University of East Anglia University of Suffolk Norwich University of the Arts Lisa Perkins Tech East

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🆕What type of voter are you?  The National Centre for Social Research’s Analysis Unit has used the flagship British Social Attitudes survey to identify six voter types that are at play in the UK general election and beyond. Take the new quiz to find out how your opinions align with the British electorate. https://lnkd.in/eyD4F-fs #Voters #GE24 #Quiz

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Only 2 weeks left for British female technology founders to apply for our 2024 cohort! The Department for Business and Trade's Venture Capital Unit has launched a national campaign to identify the UK’s 10 most promising tech female founders. These founders will form the cohort for 2024 and will be given the opportunity to engage in the following: 1. The Venture Capital Unit’s first ever female founders brochure. This will feature the businesses of the female founders and will be circulated to investors across the world. 2. An intimate breakfast session with senior prominent VC investors that will offer advice on how to scale their businesses. 3. Opportunities to meet with senior mentors across the VC industry. 4. Opportunities to join overseas events where they will meet with investors and potential partners for collaboration. Please share with female founders in your networks. https://lnkd.in/dUW_VVd3

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💡 We're working in partnership with the VCSE Observatory and The Social Investment Consultancy (TSIC) along with funders City Bridge Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Paul Hamlyn Foundation to commission new research to assess the equitability of the UK funding landscape through understanding #DEI data, assess if and how funding practices impact #equitable funding, and understand funders and funded organisations’ perceptions of #funding #equity in the UK. Are you a funder or funded organisation? Have your say and contribute to a better understanding of #Diversity, #Equity and #Inclusion within UK funding 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5Uy_xUr

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At Doncaster Chamber, we are dedicated to fostering a better business environment in Doncaster and amplifying our members' voices on a range of important issues. Of course, this means listening attentively to our network, just as much as it does speaking on their behalf. With that in mind, it’s been great to hear directly from the business community over the past couple of weeks, at various forums and meetings. Last Friday, for instance, saw the return of our MPs Question Time event in a subtly rebooted format. Having made a conscious decision to move away from the heavily curated questions of the past, we instead handed the reins over to the audience and let them dictate the flow of conversation; a subtle tweak which I think really benefited the quality of the debate. Members shared fascinating insights on topics ranging from Net Zero to the implications of AI and the economic fortunes of our city centre, while also posing some interesting and challenging questions. It was a helpful reminder that ambition and pride in Doncaster does not (and absolutely should not) preclude bluntness and honesty about the city's challenges and shortcomings. On that note, we now have an opportunity for you to share your views on one the subjects that was most evocative at the MPs Question Time. As its name suggests, our new Town and City Centre Survey is a chance for you to articulate what you think needs to be improved with our local urban core and where further investment is needed. Among other things, it will asks you to rate the cleanliness, safety, retail offer and cultural offer in the city centre, while also getting you to identify your top priorities for making it a better place to do business. Of course we need to identify the problems, but we're keen to move beyond that with this piece of work to start identifying the solutions too. With that in mind, we will use then use the insights from your responses to advocate for the interventions you’d like to see from us, the local council, the police force, and other Team Doncaster partners. We know that the future of the City Centre is an issue close to the hearts of many of our members, so don’t miss this opportunity to shape where it’s heading next: https://lnkd.in/eeGNbk7k The more responses we get, the louder our collective voice will be. Collectively we can make the case for positive change. Fabian Braithwaite, Jim Carley, Andy Morley, Jade Dyer, Laura Hemstock, Harrison Abbott, Ian Hoad, Victoria Snowden, Sam Foster, Dominic Gibbs, Luke Fermor, Pippa Mell, Kelvin Fitton, Tariq Shah OBE, Alexandra Walker, Stephen Farr

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It was exciting to listen to NCVO's engaging and insightful sector hustings, the only national hustings dedicated to the voluntary sector, putting forward questions to cross-party speakers on how charities, community groups, faith organisations and volunteers can help to solve the UK's most pressing social challenges. 🤝 All speakers sent a clear message that collaboration with our sector is essential to make a difference in society, both in policy-making and service delivery. Lilian Greenwood, Labour's former Shadow Minister for Civil Society, highlighted that charities and voluntary organisations are vital partners for a future Labour government. She elaborated on achieving this through stronger partnerships and collaboration with the voluntary sector, as well as with organisations delivering essential public services. 💡Given the scale of the challenge, any future Government will need to innovate and ambitiously harness private investment alongside social impact investors to tackle pressing public issues. Read our manifesto to learn more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ecfdNPvY

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Charities and Government Excellent Research from Pro Bono Economics who have published a very useful free resource for charities https://lnkd.in/e_a8ybFN . This says "The 2024 General Election brought 335 new MPs into the House of Commons. For the many charities that seek to influence parliamentarians, this creates a significant challenge. That’s 335 new MPs to research and sift through to try and understand if they might be inclined to support a charity’s cause. "Many small charities cannot afford parliamentary monitoring systems or expensive agencies to do that sifting for them. If hundreds of organisations all undertake the same research into those MPs’ backgrounds, it means massive amounts of duplication and wasted time for already time-starved organisations. Also see https://lnkd.in/ebSvCG_Y which explains that "Experience in the charity sector has accelerated the most dramatically of all with this new Cabinet. #Starmer has appointed eight #Cabinet members who have previously worked within the charity sector. That is a quadrupling of charity experience at the top of government." CFG : Charity Finance Group Charity News Association of Charitable Foundations Association of Chairs The Resource Alliance Charity Excellence - a FREE one-stop-shop for everything a non-profit needs.

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Read the lates writing The "Scarcity" of Money by Gavin Barker on Citizen Network website: "Whether you are a VCSE organisation seeking funding, campaigning for a publicly funded NHS or a climate activist, sooner or later you hit a financial wall: ‘there is no more money’. Those that pull the levers of power politely explain that ‘Government budgets operate like household budgets and we must live within our means’. This is a mantra repeated and amplified by the press and both the main parties are now engaged in a pre-election gambit to position themselves as ‘the fiscally responsible party’; a safe pair of hands when it comes to handling tax payers money. Labour ‘will not turn on the spending taps’ if elected, and the Conservatives proclaim their ‘pledge to get the national debt falling’. In the light of the multiple crises we face, from collapsing public services to accelerating climate change, this is a false and dangerous narrative peddled by both main parties. But to understand why this is false, we need to take a step back and look at where money comes from." https://lnkd.in/d4inhPKt

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The Business Case for Working Openly and Transparently - https://lnkd.in/erZX3eGN Brilliant article on all the benefits and approaches of and for working openly from #weareopencoop Doug Belshaw Laura Hilliger and team #workingopen #foss #floss #opensource #openpractice

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