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Reflections on the pilot phase: Birmingham’s Economic Justice Action Network
The Birmingham Economic Justice Action Network is moving on from its pilot phase. Anna Garlands from Huddlecraft reflects on how it provides the space for alliance building, learning, developing…
Connect Fund Reflections: Running the Participatory ‘Gathering Ideas Fund’
This is the first blog in a mini-series of blogs sharing the learning from the Connect Fund.
Criminal justice sector hails long-awaited delivery plan for Government's 2018 women's offending strategy
Doctor Kate Paradine @klparadine consultant and former CEO of Women in Prison, shares her thoughts on the recently published delivery…
Do you want to be part of the change needed to get more Black Asian and minoritised leaders in the criminal justice voluntary, community and enterprise sector?
Barrow Cadbury Trust and Lloyds Bank Foundation for England & Wales are looking for expressions of interest from organisations keen…
Shift Birmingham participants begin a journey together to understand and reimagine the city’s economy
“I want the words and language to argue for change!” “I’d like the community I work in to know how…
Maturity matters – does the Inclusive Britain report make the case for young adults to move up the criminal justice policy agenda?
In his first blog for T2A Leroy Logan MBE explains why the Inclusive Britain report is getting some things right…
Will levelling up be "a moral, social and economic programme for the whole of government”?
Debbie Pippard reflects on the Levelling Up White Paper and what it might mean for regional and in-region inequalities…
Change is urgent: A year of open and trusting grant-making
Barrow Cadbury Trust is one of the trust and foundations which signed up to IVAR's Open and Trusting Grantmaker initiative…
Strengthening Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the UK Social Investment Sector
As part of the Connect Fund evaluation, Niamh Goggin, our Evaluation and Learning Partner, looks back at five projects funded…
Racial justice funding – funders making change
This blog, written by Debbie Pippard, Director of Programmes at BCT, was originally posted in Equally Ours on 3 December…
From youth justice to T2A: an interview with Joyce Moseley OBE
Some people may already know that Joyce Moseley's tenure as Chair of the Transition to Adulthood Alliance (T2A) after nine…
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing – more than just a placebo
The focus of 2021’s Good Money Week, supported by UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association, is helping people find sustainable…
Perspectives of a Prison Officer – What I've Learnt
Coming to the end of my placement at the Barrow Cadbury Trust, along with the end of my two year…
Perspectives of a Prison Officer
Hello! My name is Niamh and I am currently working as a prison officer as part of the Unlocked Graduate’s…
Funding and racial justice: data driving change
This blog by Debbie Pippard, Barrow Cadbury Trust's Director of Programmes, was originally posted on ACEVO's website. The shockwaves that…
Young Adults on Remand
This blog by Rob Allen, the author of 'Young Adults on Remand', is cross-posted from the Reforming Prisons blog Criminal…
How the conversation on racial inequality in the voluntary and community sector changed in 2020
This blog on racial justice in the VCS comes from Jeremy Crook OBE, Chief Executive of BTEG. It was planned…