It’s just over a couple of months since we launched the findings from the Civil Society Futures Inquiry. So how do we take this forward in 2019 and beyond?
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Inclusive recruitment in the charity sector
This short blog is produced by Green Park, Civil Society Futures, and brap in the hope of encouraging further discussion and action on the topic of inclusive recruitment practice at senior leadership level within the charity sector. Building leadership for the future We are talking about leadership more and more in the charity sector. Across …
Giving thought…
The Chair of the Inquiry into Civil Society Futures, Julia Unwin CBE, recently sat down with CAF – the charity, bank and champion for better giving – to discuss: what the Civil Society Futures Inquiry is and how it came about the challenges and opportunities associated with new organisational models within civil society, including many …
What next for Civil Society Futures
When we launched our report into the future of civil society – based on a two-year inquiry – we wrote about the deep divisions that we had witnessed, the feeling many people have that their voices are being ignored, and a growing sense that the old ways of doing things are no longer working. Since …
For too many London is lonely, insecure and unfair. Here’s how civil society can help
How can civil society tackle loneliness, address job insecurity, and create fairer cities? A focus on power, accountability, connections and trust can help. Ivan, Mariana and Yasmin were sitting round a table in Toynbee Hall, reflecting on their ambitions for the future. They were celebrating with their friends their achievement in completing an English as …
Committing to the Voluntary Sector Compact
The state and the voluntary sector have always had an uneasy friendship, to put it mildly. In the mid-1990s the government produced a framework intended to put this relationship on a more equal footing. Called the Voluntary Sector Compact, the framework offered rules for engagement that would help to protect the voluntary sector’s role in …
Shaping the next revolution
The Bank of England’s Chief Economist has set out a powerful vision of a changing society and called for civil society to play a greater role in tackling the challenges that lie ahead. But does civil society have the skills, resources, and ability to respond? Andy Haldane, the Bank of England’s Chief Economist, delivered a …
Changing society: changing ourselves
One of the fascinating things about the inquiry process has been travelling the country to see how civil society is making a difference in different areas. Just as local challenges are unique, the responses from community groups have been similarly varied. But, as we’ve said previously, there are also some challenges that are often shared …
Making a power shift happen
If we care about reviving our dented democracy, rebuilding our social fabric, talking about and confronting racism and enabling us to address the great challenges of climate change and environmental degradation, then Civil Society Futures is about providing the evidence base, the intellectual underpinning and foundations for how we all – as individual citizens who …
Final reflections
The chair of the inquiry shares what she's learnt - and responds to some challenges we have had on the final findings