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    Statement from the women of Feeding Our Resilience, Greater Manchester

    Statement from the women of Feeding Our Resilience, Greater Manchester,

    who are beginning to Feel our Resistance

    This statement is our fresh water, hydrating us, the women of Feeding our Resilience who are beginning to Feel our Resistance.

    Feeding Our Resilience (FOR) Greater Manchester is an Action Learning Set…

  • Blog: Authors: Julian Corner

    Launching our new website

    Lankelly Chase has launched a new website! This is an exciting moment for us, but also the culmination of some important reflection that I wanted to share briefly here.

    Redesigning a website is an opportunity to notice how far you’ve shifted since the last redesign. A lot of an organisation’s…

  • Blog: Authors: Kevin Osborne

    The Miseducation of a Generation*

    The need for separate education of black children

    Understanding the nature of racism, and minimising its impact, has been my life’s work. Possibly this is why I have been less shocked than others about the murder of George Floyd. Having tracked the deaths of mainly black boys owing to…

  • Blog: Authors: Dominic Burke

    Charitable endowments: the £68bn elephant in the room

    At the Association of Charitable Foundation’s 2019 conference, ‘Funding on a Finite Planet’, its Chief Executive Carol Mack asked:

    “Are we ignoring the 68 billion elephants in the room – our £68 billion pounds worth of endowments? A significant portion of which are invested in a financial system that is…

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    Standing in Solidarity with the Black Community

    The pain and anger caused by the deaths of Ahmad Aubrey, Breonna Taylor and now George Floyd in the US has been deeply felt across the world. It has brought to the fore the harms that black and brown people experience every day in every country. 

    Blog: Authors: Katy

    Hitting rock bottom: It didn’t have to be that way. One woman’s determination to see women-only services for women struggling to cope.

    My name is Katy *. I am 29 years old, have a 7-year-old boy and a job in the caring profession.

    The new Gender Matters report strikes a particular chord for me, highlighting the urgent need for women-only services. Every year, over 335,000 people in England today have been found to face…

  • Blog: Authors: Lisa Newman

    Women Healing Women – why vulnerable women need specialist services

    When I arrived in Bristol after having run away from an abusive relationship, I had a drug habit to feed, I had nowhere to live and I was losing my mind.  Not just in the everyday sense – I was completely out of touch from reality.  My Bipolar was rapid…

  • Blog: Authors: Toby Lowe, Max French

    A look in the mirror? Can the “System Behaviours” be a useful mechanism to reflect on the health of a system?

    What does a place look like when the different people and organisations in it work together effectively for people who experience severe and multiple disadvantage?

    How do people in that place behave to make a system that works? 

    For over five years, Lankelly Chase (LC) has sought to better understand…

  • Blog: Authors: Clare Hyde, Max French, Simon Johnson

    Reflections on trust and systems change

    Part of Lankelly Chase’s Action Inquiry on ‘place’ has involved funding associates to work with local actors to embed the 9 System Behaviours. This piece is a synthesis of our experiences in the action inquiry as they relate to those conditions. We chose to reflect on the topic of…

  • Blog: Authors: , Habiba Nabatu

    Place based working – what have we learned so far?

    Eighteen months ago we set out to work alongside a few partners in places to explore how we can support people and institutions nurture the conditions for change to flourish locally.  This followed 18 months of seeking advice and input from as many people as possible about the role a…