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Evolving through the crisis: How COVID-19 has shaped the next decade of The Social Change Agency
Throughout the past 6 months, over 1 million people mobilised themselves to support their communities during COVID-19. Shopping for those who were shielding, dropping off prescriptions, dog walking, plant swaps, casework for benefit challenges, setting up hardship...
Three ways community-led groups can make the love last post-Covid
As lockdown begins to lift, community-led Covid-19 response groups are beginning to adapt the support they offer one another. The aim that most share is simple: making sure the community ties strengthened during the pandemic, last well beyond it. We've seen these...
My experience as a Covid-19 Mutual Aider
Charlie Watkinson shares her experience of providing and receiving support during the Covid-19 pandemic as a member of the Nunhead Knocks Mutual Aid group. On the changing nature of the support... Initially, the majority of support that was needed was going to collect...
Women’s March Global moves to The Social Change Agency
We are excited to announce that Women's March Global is moving their home and operations to be housed by us at The Social Change Agency. WMG share our values of collaboration and co-creation, dynamism, and, most-importantly, whole-heartedness and we believe this move...
Narcissists, dictators and sociopaths: how can funders avoid perpetuating unhealthy power dynamics in movements?
At the centre of any movement tends to lie a network of leaders; leaders who organise, support, recruit and build; leaders doing the mundane and remarkable work which gets a movement off the ground. Yet, it is at this beginning stage where we are most vulnerable to...
Meaning Conference: 5 economic good news stories worth celebrating
It's one of life’s pleasures: attending an event and leaving with lots of new, exciting ideas. And Meaning Conference, held every November in Brighton, gave me that very feeling. Meaning Conference brings people together to discuss purpose-led business, the economy...
Interview: Jason Foo on brand-led movements
The movement we see ourselves part of is to help business in society recognise the role a greater social purpose can play
Connecting Communities
Community centres play an important role in bringing communities together. They provide a meeting place for people that might otherwise be isolated or disaffected, enable individuals to connect with others around a shared interest or cause, and provide support...
In conversation with Jo Wells: Why we need a young trustees movement
The Young Trustees Movement brings together a number of organisations with the aim of doubling the number of young people serving on charity sector boards over the next five years. In our recent podcast, Mita Desai, Young Trustees Movement programme manager, caught up...
In conversation with Tor Evans: Tips to make young trusteeship meaningful
The Roundhouse has been a leading voice in the push to recruit young trustees. They are trailblazers who have had young trustees for over a decade and even created a guide to youth governance in collaboration with the Arts Council. In our latest podcast, we speak with...
Interview: Jose Barco on the Art of Hosting
At the end of the event, one of the people leading the opposition group came and said to me that this was the first time in a whole year of proceedings with the council, where they actually felt that they were listened to.
Interview: The power of consent-based decision making
So many organisations say they want creativity and innovation and then they do as much as they can to kind of stamp it out.