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.
It’s obvious, when we stop and think for a moment, that lots of problems we face personally and societally are complex, deep-rooted and multi-faceted. However, in a culture often dominated by speed and segregation: sound-bites, quick-wins, winners and losers, left and right, right and wrong, 24-hour news cycles and 5-year terms, we need to recognise
Camden Town Unlimited (CTU) is the Business Improvement District (BID) for the Camden Town area, representing more than 300 member businesses. From office buildings to bookshops, restaurants to corner shops, we have been appointed by – and are accountable to – the business community, to ensure the area thrives and its potential is realised. CTU’s
Improving a place takes on a very different perspective when the place is so new. Obviously, this area has always been on the map, but the part of London that has emerged after the 2012 Olympic Games is completely different to what it looked and felt like prior to London winning the Games in 2005.
The London Borough of Hackney is, in many ways, the poster child for place improvement. There are few places in the UK that have undergone such wholesale change in such a short period of time. In about a decade and a half, Hackney has gone from being one of the least to the most desirable
Such a simple question eh? Who needs even 500 words to answer that? We may broadly agree that it’s a recipe of sorts; a few key ingredients with some optional extras that are dependent on your personal taste and flavour; 8oz of an aesthetic and clean physical environment, a large knob of aspirational work opportunity,
The recent rise in violence has made me angry. My answer to how we improve places is influenced by that anger, but also by the optimism that we have built VOYAGE with. At VOYAGE, we are committed to transforming and developing the opportunities and aspirations of young black communities across London. We are working to
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
