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We’re running some sessions over the next few months for CICs – all pretty much booked up (but hopefully we’ll be offering more later in the year).  We also work with a lot of fantastic CICs.  I’ve been mulling over what this model has brought to the sector.    There...

Have a read of our latest annual report. Contains feedback from clients, details of what we do, who we are and who we help. Link opens in a new window.

I was in Langport in Somerset the other day and there in a wonderful open space alongside the River Parrett were some nice wooden benches. So what, I can hear you say. Well, at least one of these benches was curved, forming a U shape, intending (I guess) to make it...

The government has recently decided that Somerset will become a unitary council. So goodbye, in 2023, to Taunton Deane, Mendip, South Somerset and so on. And North Yorkshire is going down the same route, with Cumbria effectively being split into two unitary councils....

Earlier this year, we were working with the Lions Barber Collective – a charity promoting mental health and suicide awareness - training barbers (and others in the hair and beauty industry) to recognise signs of poor mental health, ask direct questions, listen...

Thinking of setting up a charity – think again (please)  The pandemic has got a lot of people thinking – about the importance of family friendship and the inequalities in the world today. It’s also got people thinking about what they can do about it – one of the...

There seems to be plenty of rhetoric around the importance of collaboration in the social purpose sector. Most people think it’s a “good thing” and many organisations will have collaboration, co-operation, openness and partnership written into their mission and...

There’s a charity I know pretty well that swiftly shifted to home working for all their staff when the Covid pandemic started to ramp up. It wasn’t really a problem – a lot of their staff worked from home, at least part of the time, anyway. They worked with...

One of the questions we often ask during an evaluation is “what would you miss if the service wasn’t here”?  Other questions we ask include:  “what would your life be like if the service hadn’t been here for you”?  and “if the service was in a fire, what would you...