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Blog Post
What exposure do black children have to racist teachers?
Read moreTo some extent, teachers inevitably reflect the breadth of attitudes in society, including those on race. Twenty-five per cent of the general public admit to having racist attitudes. Whilst this will likely be less amongst teachers, it is certain...
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News Story
We stand in solidarity with the black community
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The pain and anger caused by the deaths of Ahmad Aubrey, Breonna Taylor and now George Floyd in the US have been felt deeply across the world. It has brought to the fore the harms that black people experience every day in every country. In the...
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News Story
Charitable endowments: the £68bn elephant in the room
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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...
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Blog Post
Collective sense-making in this new world
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There's no doubt that these are painful and challenging times and the inequities that exist in this current socio-economic system have been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. The people across the networks we have the privilege of being a...
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Blog Post
A grassroots response to COVID-19
Read moreAs the director of a grassroots project, with a turnover of just £55k p/a and just five part time staff, all with self employed status, I always thought that our jobs were insecure and that we faced the greatest challenges for survival. I used...
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Blog Post
Rumblings, responses, and a new reality: early impacts of COVID-19 on our work and partnerships
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We have written about Lankelly Chase’s own response to the coronavirus emergency here. This is a separate blog to report on some of the things we’re hearing from our projects and partnerships. One of our learning frameworks is to look for...
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News Story
‘Ambition’ is not enough. Investors must vote for action at Barclays’s AGM
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Lankelly Chase is one of 11 institutional investors, and over 100 individuals, which have co-filed a shareholder resolution at Barclays’s Annual General Meeting in May 2020. If passed by at least 75% of investors who vote, our resolution would...
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News Story
Investing in a just response to COVID-19
Read moreLike many charities and philanthropic funders, Lankelly Chase is committed to supporting our partners and others as we respond collectively to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve signed a joint funder statement and will continue to...
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News Story
Funder Statement on COVID-19
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We realise the impact that Covid-19 is having on vulnberable people, communities and the organisations that serve them. We signed a joint statement coordinated by London Funders. If you have a funding relationship with us and have a concern we're...
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Blog Post
Introducing the Connected grants programme
Read moreIn Summer 2019 we published Hard Edges Scotland, which expanded on our initial statistical profile of severe and multiple disadvantage from 2015. Over the last few months we’ve taken this much further and published a whole range of new research...