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Understanding Migrant Destitution in the UK: Literature Review

June 30, 2023

In 2020, it was reported that a fifth of destitute households were migrants (JRF 2020). In many of these cases, the destitution arose primarily from the households' immigration status, specifically the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) condition, which restricts access to the welfare safety net (including most mainstream benefits such as Universal Credit). Attempts to tackle destitution in the UK, therefore, must consider the characteristics of the NRPF condition, its impacts and the characteristics of the parallel welfare safety net which is in place for (some) migrants and delivered by local authorities.This literature review is part of COMPAS' Understanding Migrant Destitution in the UK research project, a UK-wide study (2022-2023) focusing on local authority practice and provision for vulnerable people with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) facing destitution. Building on COMPAS' (2015) research on Safeguarding Children From Destitution: Local Authority Responses To Families With 'No Recourse To Public Funds' (NRPF), we will be using a mixed methods approach exploring the following core research questions across all four nations of the UK:How has the cohort of people with NRPF and at risk of destitution changed since 2015?How has social care provision for people with NRPF at risk of destitution changed, including in relation to decisions made on who is eligible for services?How have outcomes for destitute people with NRPF changed since 2015?

Enterprise Grants Taskforce: Defining, scoping and scaling the size of the Enterprise Grants sector in the UK

June 29, 2023

In a new report by Social Spider CIC, enterprise grants are identified as critical to actively supporting enterprising behaviour for charities and social enterprises, especially those working in challenging areas of market failure. With increasingly limited resources to create positive social impact, this new movement of grant-making intentionally fills a gap in the funding market that complements unrestricted funding, project-based grant funding and repayable social investment.As a new approach, enterprise grant-making can enable social organisations to find new and different ways to generate sustainable levels of traded income. In-depth interviews with funders, social enterprise support bodies and charity infrastructure organisations have supported the definition of enterprise grants and helped scope and size the field to-date.

Making the case for unrestricted funding: A summary of key points for foundation staff and Boards

June 20, 2023

This briefing summaries the key points from IVAR research to help grantmakers and Boards to consider and make the case for unrestricted funding. The evidence is clear and compelling: the preference for restricted funding rests on familiarity, not evidence. While restricted funding can be the right choice, it has not earned its place as the dominant model.  Perceived barriers should not deter a change that presents value to both charities and funders. In this short briefing, we lay out the value of unrestricted funding, consolidated from our research to date, to help grantmakers and board members clearly consider and make the case for unrestricted funding: both in their organisations and to colleagues in the sector.

Lessons from Other Democracies: Ideas for Combatting Mistrust and Polarization in US Elections

June 15, 2023

Protections are baked into each stage of US election administration. Yet, there is a crisis of confidence in US elections. After falling to a record low following the 2020 elections, trust in US elections increased after the 2022 midterms. However, far too many Americans continue to harbor mistaken beliefs about the prevalence of widespread fraud and miscounted votes, as well as concerns about the ability of election officials to administer future elections fairly. Malign actors—both foreign and domestic—are taking advantage of and reinforcing these trends to serve their varied interests, including geopolitical advantage and monetary gain.Adopting best practices from other countries is an opportunity to buttress policies and procedures that make US elections free and fair and draw inspiration from others facing the same challenges. With its decentralized election system and state "laboratories of democracy", the United States is well suited for incremental, location-specific adaptation of new ideas.

Gates Cambridge Trust Annual Report 2022

May 3, 2023

This Gates Cambridge Trust annual report includes a summary of the Trust's work during the year and the impact of our scholars and alumni in Cambridge and across the world as well as the Trust's financial report.You can also read community news about our scholars and alumni, our impact in numbers and there are four case studies of scholars and alumni – Marie Brunet, Stijn de Schepper, Alaa Hajyahia and Anoop Tripathi.

NHS Brain Cancer Healthcare and Research: Does It Matter Where You Are Treated?

April 21, 2023

This report presents extensive insights, collected in 2020-2022,  into 28 of the 30 NHS brain cancer centres in the UK.  It highlights significant geographical variation in treatment and care and sets out how to level up services. The report presents the most comprehensive dataset on NHS brain cancer services ever collected, providing the Mission with a unique strategic overview on how to drive change and innovation nationally.It reveals striking variation in brain cancer services across the UK, with disparities in the design, quality and extent of the treatment and care pathway. In all hospitals reviewed, treatment was delivered according to internationally recognised standards by a motivated team: however there was notable variability in access to genetic testing of tumour samples, involvement in clinical studies and the extent of nurse and allied health-led services. All of which have the potential to impact patient experience and outcomes.

Welcoming Ukrainians: The Hosts' Perspective

March 13, 2023

A new report by More in Common finds that one year on from its launch the Homes for Ukraine scheme has been a broad success that should be celebrated and learned from. Drawing on public opinion research and a survey of over 1200 Homes for Ukraine hosts, More in Common finds: Support for the UK taking in refugees from Ukraine is strong and consistently so.The hosts' experience of the scheme has been overwhelmingly positive.Hosts and guests matched in a variety of ways.The community of hosts come from across British society.Most hosts are willing to continue hosting their guests, and would be willing to host new Ukrainian guests, either immediately or after a break.Hosts are open about the challenges they face and those their guests face as they settle in the UK.The key challenge hosts identified was the lack of support helping their guests to find appropriate alternative accommodation.Support from the government and local authorities has been patchy.There's an opportunity to build on the success of the Homes for Ukraine model across other welcoming efforts.

Sector Infrastructure Funding Analysis

March 8, 2023

Voluntary sector infrastructure bodies perform vital roles supporting and enabling voluntary and community organisations, both locally and at a national level. This report explores how the voluntary sector infrastructure has changed over the last 12 years, particularly by looking at its finances and funding. It highlights a number of challenges around funding of these organisations.It is our intention that this research provides context to grantmakers to inform strategy development and encourage funder collaboration. Infrastructure organisations are sometimes an invisible part of the sector, but we all feel the impact when organisations close, either directly or indirectly. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has commissioned 360Giving to support this analysis as a starting point to facilitate discussions and support more active decision-making in what is likely to be a very challenging period for the sector.The data used in this report is available to explore. As noted in the report methodology in the appendix, identifying the full extent of organisations and detailed information about them, particularly those that had closed, was challenging. We've used data from the Charity Commission, regulators in Scotland and Northern Ireland and 360Giving publishers to identify and analyse these organisations. There are some gaps in the data, but we believe it gives an overview of voluntary sector infrastructure and how it has changed.

Gender Issues in Fundraising - Changing the narrative: How to help men in fundraising become better allies in dismantling patriarchal structures

March 7, 2023

Gender in fundraising is an issue that had been simmering for many years before the MeToo movement and the scandals of the Presidents Club fundraising dinner and Oxfam's safeguarding failures caused it to boil over. Recently research in the USA revealed that something like 25 per cent of female fundraisers have been subjected to sexually inappropriate behaviour.Naturally there are calls for the both the fundraising profession and the charity sector more widely to tackle this issue, and initiatives have been set up in the USA and UK.Rogare is contributing to these challenges with the aim to ensure any solutions are grounded in the relevant theory and evidence that already exist. This project has three phases: Phase 1 – build the knowledge base that underpins this issue to better inform debate and discussions and as a result to also better inform any interventions we make as a profession (Phase 1 project leader – Caoileann Appleby). We completed this in 2020).Phase 2 – building on the issues identified and ideas collated under Phase 1, construct a Blueprint – based on Lean Out Feminism – to dismantle patriarchal structures in the fundraising profession (Phase 2 project leader – Heather Hill). The Blueprint was published in March 2023. One of our key recommendations is a code of conduct for donors.Phase 3 – starting in 2023, this phase will look at how to implement and/or adapt the Blueprint, and explore any other challenges and issues that arise as we take this forward. A key part of Phase 3 was how we build the narrative to engage more male/men allies.A key part of Phase 3 will be to engage more men/male allies in the movement for change. This was a tackled by Becky Slack in a section in the Phase 2 Blueprint Report. This paper by Becky, Changing the narrative: How to help men in fundraising become better allies in dismantling patriarchal structures, is a considerably expanded version of that essay.

Gender Issues in Fundraising - Phase 2: A blueprint for dismantling patriarchal structures in the fundraising profession

March 7, 2023

Gender in fundraising is an issue that had been simmering for many years before the MeToo movement and the scandals of the Presidents Club fundraising dinner and Oxfam's safeguarding failures caused it to boil over. Recently research in the USA revealed that something like 25 per cent of female fundraisers have been subjected to sexually inappropriate behaviour.Naturally there are calls for the both the fundraising profession and the charity sector more widely to tackle this issue, and initiatives have been set up in the USA and UK. Rogare is contributing to these challenges with the aim to ensure any solutions are grounded in the relevant theory and evidence that already exist. This project has three phases: Phase 1 – build the knowledge base that underpins this issue to better inform debate and discussions and as a result to also better inform any interventions we make as a profession (Phase 1 project leader – Caoileann Appleby). We completed this in 2020).Phase 2 – building on the issues identified and ideas collated under Phase 1, construct a Blueprint – based on Lean Out Feminism – to dismantle patriarchal structures in the fundraising profession (Phase 2 project leader – Heather Hill). The Blueprint was published in March 2023. One of our key recommendations is a code of conduct for donors.Phase 3 – starting in 2023, this phase will look at how to implement and/or adapt the Blueprint, and explore any other challenges and issues that arise as we take this forward. A key part of Phase 3 was how we build the narrative to engage more male/men allies.

Voices from the Ground: Sustainable Future Programme Review Report

January 30, 2023

In Summer 2021, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) commissioned Anu Priya and Laura Miller to review its Sustainable Future programme. This report is written in first person. It was the only way we felt able to share, while being limited to writing, our connection with the work and the people we have had the genuine pleasure of being in community with.This Review and the resulting recommendations - alongside emerging work on funding grassroots movements - are a portal for JRCT to move towards understanding and applying the principles of reparations, including creating the conditions for reparative processes to become possible.The recommendations are designed to break the cycle of philanthropic harm that upholds and works to the blueprints of systemic domination and oppression which, in its own way, replicates 'The White Man's Burden', both in the choices it makes and the ones it doesn't.Our approach to the Review, and our working practices, model how JRCT can resource and stand with communities. Our recommendations give strong, practical ways for JRCT to honour the spirit of the commitments made in its strategy for addressing its power and privilege. They are rooted in our commitment of accountability to communities who bear the brunt of systemic injustice, including from within philanthropy.

Raising Aspirations in Science Education (RAiSE) Programme Report (2021/22)

December 13, 2022

Raising Aspirations in Science Education (RAiSE) is a programme of The Wood Foundation, Scottish Government, Education Scotland, and participating local authorities which empowers primary practitioners with the skills, confidence, and networks to develop and deliver motivating and exciting STEM experiences.The RAiSE programme was established in 2016. Following a successful pilot with eight local authorities, RAiSE has now grown to engage with twenty local authorities.This report will profile how the RAiSE investment has acted as a catalyst for high-quality STEM education regionally and nationally, evidenced by three local authorities who have undertaken a full evaluation cycle - West Lothian, North Lanarkshire, and Clackmannanshire. This process was completed in June 2022.The qualitative and quantitative data within this report further proves the effectiveness of the model, as evidenced in the external analysis of the pilot and the legacy report.It should be noted that RAiSE continued to be delivered and have a positive impact for the local authorities in the period covered by this report, despite much of their engagement being delivered against the backdrop of the Covid19 pandemic.