Fawcett Society calls for action to make women’s voices heard in devolution.
A new report from the Fawcett Society calls for women’s voices to be heard in devolution. The report comes in the light of the Government’s promised shift of power to city regions in a pending White...
View ArticleAsylum seekers face long delays to their claims being decided, but more than...
Three quarters of asylum seekers in the UK had waited more than six months for an initial decision on their claim by the end of 2018. However, more than half of asylum claims resulted in success for...
View ArticleCLES calls for Community Wealth Building Act
Think tank CLES has called on whoever forms the next government to introduce a Community Wealth Building Act to create a more inclusive economy. In a new manifesto, the Centre for Local Economic...
View ArticleEnsuring civil society has a voice
Civil society and charity campaigning is central to our democracy, amplifying the voices of those who are marginalised and holding the powerful to account. Over recent years, restrictions have been...
View ArticlePublic services should be trauma-informed to better support women, says new...
Public services that are trauma-informed provide better support for women who have been through traumatic events, but making the transition to this approach can be challenging for many organisations,...
View ArticleHow can essential services – insurance, energy, credit – be designed for...
A new programme of research led by Fair By Design and the Money Advice Trust is set to explore the issue of inclusive design in credit, insurance, energy and other essential services markets....
View Article£200m of ‘responsible finance’ lent to individuals, businesses and social...
The UK’s ethical ‘responsible finance’ sector lent £200 million to 40,000 businesses, social enterprises and individuals in 2019, creating and protecting 13,800 jobs, according to new figures published...
View ArticleFaith, charity, culture and sport leaders call for ‘decade of reconnection’...
The new decade of the 2020s must become a ‘decade of reconnection’ to heal divides in our society say key leaders from across faith, culture, sport, civil society and business. In an open letter...
View ArticleHigh Pay Day 2020: Scope for fairer pay and lower inequality remains...
Pay for the typical FTSE 100 CEO in 2020 has already surpassed the amount the average UK worker earns in an entire year. High Pay Centre argues that much more can be done to achieve a better balance...
View ArticleOut of sight, out of mind: where are the invisible girls?
Jessica Southgate, Policy Manager at Agenda for Women and Girls at Risk, blogs about its new campaign. This blog was originally posted on the Agenda website “They should have dealt with things...
View Article100 years of the Barrow Cadbury Trust
This year is our centenary. For the last hundred years our work has reflected the social and political challenges of the time. In the early days of the trust much of our work focused on the health...
View ArticleWomen for Refugee Women launch new research on destitution of asylum-seeking...
Women for Refugee Women (WRW), together with its regional partners Women Asylum Seekers Together Manchester, Coventry Asylum and Refugee Action Group and Women with Hope Birmingham, has today launched...
View ArticleCultivating Local Inclusive Growth In Practice
This blog by Charlotte Morgan was originally posted on the New Local Government (NLG) website. Is a growing economy something to celebrate when the benefits it brings are out of reach to many? While...
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What can foundations do about climate change?
For our centenary year, the Barrow Cadbury Trust is asking some of our colleagues and partners to write blogs for us, not all the content of which we will necessarily agree with. This one comes from...
View ArticleNothing about us without us: Lived experience insight and social investment
The Young Foundation has launched a report setting out why and how the UK social investment sector should engage with traditional ‘service users’ to improve decisions which affect their lives. The...
View ArticleMuch to celebrate and much to do – Barrow Cadbury Trust responds to MoJ...
The Barrow Cadbury Trust works to ensure the criminal justice system takes into account the distinct needs of particular groups in society: children, young adults, women and people from Black, Asian...
View ArticleMarriage Equality and LGBTI Rights in Ireland
In our centenary year Barrow Cadbury Trust is asking some of our colleagues and partners to write blogs for us. As LGBT History Month, with the theme ‘What have we learned?’, draws to a close, this...
View ArticleThe road ahead – charting a course towards gender equality
How far we have come on gender equality and what is still left to do? In Barrow Cadbury Trust’s centenary year for International Women’s Day we asked Sam Smethers, Chief Executive of the Fawcett...
View ArticleThe reset moment: immigration in the new Parliament
A major shift in public attitudes to immigration since the 2016 referendum gives Boris Johnson an opportunity to bring more light and less heat to the immigration debate, according to a new report from...
View ArticleRace equality and migrant rights organisations call for independent review...
Following the publication of the Windrush Lessons Learned Review, 15 race equality and migrant rights organisations (full list below) have today called for an independent review into the extent of...
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