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Collective impact – what can we learn from Canada?

Back in 2014 I started a short-term piece of work with a small charity in north London. The CEO was the founder. The charity was running at a significant loss and the founder was topping up the finances with family money. There was no doubt that there was commitment and passion. The problem was that what the charity offered was the same as numerous other charities within a three-kilometre radius. And they had never thought about joining up their work.  Read more

SAIDs SEEDs SEIDs? It’s the last one!

After new measures released today show that 14 million people live below the poverty line in the UK, we’re opening a new project to add to the mosaic of initiatives trying to reverse this trend.

In 2016 after doing some work with the team at Caritas Westminster, they took us to visit a building. An old, run-down, disused school then social club in Wembly. Surrounded by a massive development project, the question was – sell it to developers or do something with it? Read more