The chair of the inquiry shares what she's learnt - and responds to some challenges we have had on the final findings
Tag: pact-response
The PACT at openDemocracy
openDemocracy is currently reassessing our entire organisational structure, looking at everything from who owns us to our staff pay scales to recruitment policies.
Power, Accountability, Connection and Trust: why we support a new PACT for Civil Society
The PACT challenge to civil society on best practice and behaviours has come at just the right time for me and for Citizens UK. Two months into my role as Executive Director, I’m on a mission to figure out how – in my own leadership and in the culture and strategy of the organisation – …
“We are here”: art to bring the PACT to life
Artist Rebecca Strickson has created a response to the civil society PACT through four beautiful banners that bring it, and people’s voices, to life.
Ignoring the rain
The Chief Executive of Local Trust on how overcoming challenges in delivering improvements to shared community resources happens better when the conversation begins at the local shop or the school gate.
Experts by experience: it’s high time we all started listening
The Chief Executive of the Refugee Council on how unintentionally, but undeniably, they have marginalised grassroots refugee groups. Now they are trying to change this.
Civil society’s tech future?
We can’t ignore the power that technology has, the ways it has the power to entrench and further inequalities or the haphazard and opaque nature of the change it can create.
A new generation of leadership… within our grasp?
Kirsty McNeill, Executive Director of Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns at Save the Children, discusses the strong traditions of civil society and how organisations big and small can work together for a better future.
Beyond command and control… communities and the common good
Dawn Austwick, Chief Executive of the Big Lottery Fund, discusses the similarities between current thinking at the Big Lottery Fund and the Civil Society Futures PACT
Courage required for a big course correction
Matthew Reed, CEO @Childrensociety & CEO designate @MarieCurieUK, reflects on the change ahead required to lead and renew civil society.