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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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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...
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Blog Post
Patterns of severe and multiple disadvantage in women
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Many people will face a major adversity at some point in their life. A period of overwhelming depression or anxiety. Time in a violent or abusive relationship. Perhaps a spell with no home, or dependent on drugs or alcohol. Some people will...
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Blog Post
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.
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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...
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Blog Post
Women Healing Women – why vulnerable women need specialist services
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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...
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Blog Post
Gender Matters: we all have to don our ‘gender goggles’
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Gender Matters is a report with personal resonance for us as women. We recognise the experience of ‘generic’ design (of services, research, products) actually being implicitly designed for men. We’re very lucky to work and thrive in a...