Renaisi was commissioned by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity to find out what residents of Southwark and Lambeth think about health challenges and issues in their area. The insight from this research was used to help the charity improve health and wellbeing in the two areas. Renaisi has worked in and with communities in London
The Access Project works with bright students from disadvantaged backgrounds to help them gain access to top universities through personalised academic tuition and university admissions support. They have robust impact measurement processes in place and are able to rigorously demonstrate the difference they make to young people’s progression and access to university. The Access Project
‘Putting the pieces together: A practical guide to matched crowdfunding’ is aimed at funders that are interested in funding projects with the ‘crowd’ by awarding grants to projects that are crowdfunding. The report offers an overview of what matched crowdfunding is, who’s involved and different approaches along with insights and advice from experienced match funders, grantees and crowdfunding platforms. Click here to open the report.
In the second of our series of citizen-led design workshops in Hackney, in early June young people, supported by innovators, local leaders and funders, set about designing, refining and prototyping applied solutions to issues they had identified in the local area.
As someone who has spent their entire life working in social enterprise and social investment, I come to this topic biased and have a strong belief that charities and social enterprises have a key role to play in improving a place. This comes from a sense that a stronger social economy can play a key
Paul Hamlyn was an entrepreneur, whose success was built on challenging traditional approaches, innovating and bringing new products to market, and backing individuals. He was also a migrant, whose own experiences of displacement and prejudice have shaped that values that guide the work of the charity he established in 1987. Today the Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Another way of framing the question is: if a place is improving, how can we make sure that the people living there benefit from the improvements and have a measure of control over what’s happening? We can all cite the regeneration schemes lauded as great successes, where the area was undoubtedly improved, with glittering new
EC1 New Deal made a difference. This was a difference both to the area where its work was focussed, with improvements to long neglected housing estates and projects for services in the area, and to the people in that area, both to the recipients of various schemes made possible by the funding to those involved
The aim at the outset was clear – to target funding at those areas which had missed out on Lottery funding in the past, but to do so in a way that would build community confidence and capacity to address the root causes of their missing out in the first place. The intention was that,
The ‘How’ question is best understood and answered alongside its regular bedfellows: why, who, where and when. The Why Question The ‘why’ question is most important as it is the basis for a vision and how success may be measured. In my experience of looking at community and regeneration plans, the hardest part is creating
