Barrow Cadbury Trust response to Covid 19
The Covid 19 pandemic has created an unprecedented challenge for civil society. Like other organisations Barrow Cadbury Trust has been considering how best to respond to the situation as it unfolds....
View ArticleHeadline findings for charities and funders to help respond to the COVID 19...
NPC planned to launch and update its State of the Sector programme of work later this year looking at the perceptions of leading charities around what makes the sector effective and the issues it...
View ArticleSmall charities and social change – a new report from IVAR
The Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) has recently launched the results of a study of small charities from across the UK who are working to affect social change. Small charities and social...
View ArticleSurvival, leadership and accountability
A commitment to prison reform was an enduring focus of Barrow And Geraldine Cadbury’s work. As a trust, we have continued that commitment through the decades. In our centenary year Barrow Cadbury...
View ArticleWhat can current data tell us about the EU Settlement Scheme?
This Migration Observatory report examines the data available for understanding the EUSS (EU Settlement Scheme) for EU, EEA and Swiss Citizens and their family members living in the UK to secure their...
View ArticlePreventing a new generation of young adults being caught in the ‘revolving door’
New data obtained by Revolving Doors Agency under the Freedom of Information legislation reveals that: Over half of all reoffences committed by young adults are theft and summary non-motoring offences....
View ArticleIssue digital cash or lose trust in money, report warns
Central banks like the Bank of England should issue a digital version of cash to prevent the ‘privatisation’ of money and trust in the monetary system disappearing, according to a new report from...
View ArticleSocial connection during the COVID-19 crisis
The first report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration’s Inquiry into social connection during the COVID-19 crisis has been published. COVID-19 and the ongoing lockdown has...
View ArticleBarrow Cadbury Trust invests in new resilience and recovery loan fund
Barrow Cadbury Trust is pleased to announce a £500k investment in a new social investment fund, the Resilience and Recovery Loan Fund, which will lend to charities and social enterprises with long-term...
View Article‘Charity sector was vulnerable to any crisis, let alone one as big as this’...
Charity think tank and consultancy New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) have published new research on the State of the Sector as the crisis hit. Dan Corry, CEO at NPC comments: “Charities are in crisis....
View ArticleLet’s build back better
“Come and talk to us about how we build on the amazing strengths of the sector and address the weaknesses and the challenges,” .says ACEVO CEO Vicky Browning in a blog originally posted on ACEVO’s...
View ArticleAll change at the Connect Fund
The Connect Fund’s Manager, Jessica Brown, will be taking up a new post as Grant Director for the Trusthouse Charitable Foundation in June. The Foundation will be managed by the Centre for Social...
View ArticleSocial care, Micro-enterprises, and inclusive local economies
Public understanding of social care is low. Many people are unsure what it is – never mind how to get it, or who pays – until they or someone close to them comes to need support beyond what friends and...
View ArticleSmall is beautiful – how social care micro-enterprises can be part of...
A new report from NEF (New Economics Foundation) and Community Catalysts concludes that social care is undervalued. The report ‘Community micro-enterprise as a driver of local economic development in...
View ArticleBarrow Cadbury Trust COVID 19 June Update
It has become clear during the last couple of months that the COVID 19 pandemic is creating an unprecedented challenge for civil and wider society. Whilst we continue to try to minimise the damage done...
View ArticleWill to Act: How social media giants have failed to live up to their claims...
According to new research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) Social media platforms remove fewer than 1 in 10 posts reported for coronavirus misinformation: Facebook, Instagram and...
View ArticleCountry to come together for biggest thank you
Everybody across the country is being encouraged to come together on the birthday of the NHS, on Sunday 5 July, to thank not only NHS staff but all key workers, good neighbours and all those who are...
View ArticleHundreds of children facing endless delays in the CJS are being convicted as...
A new report by the Youth Justice Legal Centre (YJLC), part of Just for Kids Law, reveals that severe delays in the criminal justice system are leaving children, families and victims in limbo,...
View ArticleBuilding inclusive community alternatives to the low wage, low value economy
Clare Payne, Economic Justice programme consultant for Barrow Cadbury Trust, charts the programme’s eight-year journey and its future course. Over the last eight years, our Economic Justice programme...
View ArticleStatement about the origins of BCT’s endowment from chair, Erica Cadbury
The killing of George Floyd in the US, together with the spotlight on the origins of philanthropic capital, taken up around the world by the Black Lives Matter movement, has prompted Barrow Cadbury...
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