Myth busting – are funding applications from Wales really of low quality?
Funders’ Collaborative Hub: the new role that is emerging
Nick Stanhope, part of the Funders’ Collaborative Hub’s design team, shares how the Hub’s role has evolved as it seeks to inspire and support greater interdependence, collaboration and collective action amongst UK grant funders.
Scanning for gaps and opportunities
“Where are the emerging needs and gaps?” is one of the key questions that the Funders’ Collaborative Hub aims to help funders answer.
Funder Collaboration: Top Tips
11 August 2021 - Last month, we brought a range of funders together to share their top tips for funder collaboration. Watch the recordings of our speakers or read the transcript.
What’s on funders’ minds after a year of Covid-19 – and how can collaboration help?
24 May 2021 - Based on a recent Hub event, .Jim Cooke, Head of the Funders' Collaborative Hub, shares reflections on what funders are thinking about a year into the pandemic.
Greater Manchester collaborations
01 June 2021 - Thea Monk, Chair of the Greater Manchester Funders Forum, and Henry Ngawoofah, Grants Officer at Young Manchester, look back on the past year of funder collaboration in Manchester. This piece was originally published in Trust & Foundation News, ACF's flagship magazine. The May edition had a specific focus on collaboration in the pandemic and after.
Funder Collaboration Toolkit Launched
19 April 2021 - Cassie Robinson (Deputy Director, Funding Strategy, The National Lottery Community Fund) and Jim Cooke (Head of the Funders’ Collaborative Hub) invite funders to try out the Hub’s new practical resources.
A quantitative analysis of the emergency funding to the UK Black and Minority Ethnic Voluntary Sector During Covid-19
08 April 2021 - The Funders for Race Equality Alliance has launched its first report, analysing the type, amount and purpose of funding awarded to Black and Minority Ethnic organisations through different types of funding pots between March 2020 and November 2020. The overall aim is to ensure that the much-needed increased support for race equality and Black and Minority Ethnic communities and civil society organisations is not temporary but becomes permanent and sustainable.
Philanthropic organisations launch collaborative to improve global safeguarding practices
16 March 2021 - Five grantmaking institutions have come together to create the Funder Safeguarding Collaborative (FSC), aiming to promote collaboration, listening, and learning among funders and local civil society organizations to support and strengthen safeguarding practices globally. Karen Walker-Simpson, FSC Director, introduces the work of the FSC.
COVID-19 Impacts on Henry Smith Charity Grant Holders: Survey Results
18 February 2021 - Last summer 149 Henry Smith Charity grant holders responded to a survey asking them about the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on their organisation and beneficiaries, their financial circumstances and how they were adapting their services to meet the needs of the most vulnerable. James Tulloch, Learning and Evaluation Manager at The Henry Smith Charity, summarises the findings of the survey.