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Solutions from the Frontline
Hard Edges
The Lives Behind the Numbers
The complexity of severe and multiple disadvantage
Knowledge Hub: Bid Development Day
Behaving like a system?
The Mission of Change
Promoting Change Network: A Participant’s View
Reflections on ‘Understanding the whole person: Part One’
Tackling poverty needs whole-system approaches
Behaving like a system – keeping the conversation going
A national service for representing people living with severe and multiple disadvantage
Award-winning Open Book
Systems Changers – harnessing the power of insights from the frontline
What is needed to support place-based system change for people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage?
Refreshing Perspectives: new Revolving Doors Agency report on peer research
Severe and Multiple Disadvantage for Women and Girls – what difference does gender make?
MAC-UK and Centre for Mental Health’s latest research
New NCB report on children missing education
Overcoming data-sharing fears can mean better outcomes for people
Turning ‘Hope into Action’
Relationships – Bread and Butter for Place Based Change
‘I’m no criminal’ – prostitution and criminal records
Elephants in the box: How can we work together to tackle severe and multiple disadvantage across Greater Manchester
View from a conservatory
Working towards systems change through coproduction – Our Experience of Elephants
Frustration and Space
New work on mortality among people facing deep social exclusion
Sharing Insights from the Frontline- Systems Changers Twitter Takeovers
Multiple disadvantage: understanding the whole family
Lankelly Chase, 360giving and foundation transparency
Addressing Adversity in Birmingham
Lankelly Chase’s approach to working with complexity
Systemic working in Place: How we got here
Get on with it! Co-production and Leadership
Perspectives on Knowledge
Profiling Severe and Multiple Disadvantage in Scotland
Writing Deprivation in the Body: Epigenetics Friend or Foe?
Reshaping Research: Knowledge and the Conditions of Possibility
What we have learnt about ‘power’ so far
Do the limits of my language, limit my world?
Light Despite the Darkness
Knowledge, Trust, Capability & Empowerment (1)
An untold story of power, defiance, mutuality and growth
Introducing Systems Changers 2018
What does the world of tech and big data have to do with us?
Place based working – what have we learned so far?
Knowledge Action Inquiry: What do we know about severe and multiple disadvantage?
Knowledge Action Inquiry: Knowledge Democracy
Knowledge Action Inquiry: Paradigm shift
Losing Control is back and bigger than ever!
Lankelly Chase’s Governance Action Inquiry
All Change: Why Systems Change is more than just a fad
Learning new ways of thinking… when your brain hurts, but in a good way
Personal and organisational observations about Systems Changers 2018
Reflections on trust and systems change
The Games We Play
Data and disadvantage: are we learning anything new?
Brave and safe spaces: philanthropy and systems change
New Hard Edges report is shining a light on SMD
A look back at the Lankelly Chase Power Inquiry
A look in the mirror? Can the “System Behaviours” be a useful mechanism to reflect on the health of a system?
Gateshead place inquiry: is learning a luxury?
Why we need to tell different stories
It’s all about trust
The mainstream is broken. But for who?
Gender Matters: we all have to don our ‘gender goggles’
Women Healing Women – why vulnerable women need specialist services
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.
Patterns of severe and multiple disadvantage in women
Introducing the Connected grants programme
Rumblings, responses, and a new reality: early impacts of COVID-19 on our work and partnerships
A grassroots response to COVID-19
Collective sense-making in this new world
Standing in Solidarity with the Black Community
Charitable endowments: the £68bn elephant in the room
What exposure do black children have to racist teachers?
The Miseducation of a Generation*
Black People are tired of explaining racism – it’s affecting our mental health
“You make your own family” – new report on LGBT experiences of severe and multiple disadvantage
What about Black Trans People?
Why every Black parent should join national networks
The Domino Effect
COVID has highlighted a great need for systems change in the Black community.
I Have a Dream
My Dream
Unity in Diversity
ACEN: A solution to the UK’s decision-making deficit in the Black community
Beyond the Rules
Transforming Lankelly Chase’s governance … so that we can do what we need to do properly
Charities support an upgrade of responsible investment guidance
Investing beyond the growth paradigm: How charity investors can shift investment practice into humanity’s safe and just operating space
Launching our new website
Farewell to Alice Evans
How should charities invest? Our submission to the Charity Commission
Transparency can transform the impact of our investments
Systems convening: leadership for the 21st century
A reflection on ‘How’
Before we defund the police, we must critically examine the racism of educators
Invitation to Tender – Place Learning Support
Racial Justice and Social Transformation: How funders can act
Synergi Collaborative Centre announce a new vision
Introducing Common Ground
Foundation Rating Practice
Building people power for reparative climate justice
Co-creating five projects to support independent news providers
Fixing responsible investment’s democratic deficit
Lankelly Chase to wholly redistribute its assets over the next five years
Statement from the women of Feeding Our Resilience, Greater Manchester
Dissolving separations
A decade of collective impact – LocalMotion secures £18m funding until 2031
Tender opportunity – Strategic/Risk Comms Agency

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Behaving Like a System? The preconditions for place based systems change
Breaking Boundaries: Towards a ‘Troubled Lives’ Programme for People Facing Multiple and Complex Needs
Bringing Everything I Am Into One Place
Children’s Society Systems Changers Learning report
Culture, Connection and Belonging – A Study of Addiction and Recovery in Nottingham’s BAME Community
Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health: Promoting Lasting Positive Change
Gender Matters
Hard Edges Scotland full report
Hard Edges Scotland Summary Report
Hard Edges: Mapping Severe and Multiple Disadvantage in England
Historical review of place based approaches
Knowledge Democracy Discussion Paper
Lifting the lid on homelessness
Opening Doors, Changing Lives: Measuring the Impact of Cash Grants on Disadvantaged Individuals and Families
People Not Problems: Politicians respond to five experiences of severe and multiple disadvantage
Philanthropists working in systems – Funders retreat 2018
Place Action Inquiry, our learning to date
Promoting Change: The Voices and Needs of Sheffield Girls
Public Law Project – Literature review on the use and impact of litigation
Severe and Multiple Disadvantage: A Review of Key Texts
Showcasing Women-Centered Solutions
Solutions from the Front Line
Synergi, national priority setting paper
Systems Change: A Guide To What It Is and How To Do It
Systems Changers 2016 ‘From where I stand:’ How frontline workers can contribute to and create systems change
Telling a Different Story: Understanding news media coverage of severe and multiple disadvantage
The Complexity of Severe and Multiple Disadvantage
The Lives Behind the Numbers
The Politics of Severe and Multiple Disadvantage
Thinking Big: How to use Theory of Change for Systems Change
Trends and Friends: Access, Use and Benefits of Digital Technology
Understanding the whole person: Part One
Using the law to address unfair systems: A case study of the Personal Independence Payments legal challenge
What Moves Movements?
Women and Girls At Risk: Evidence Across the Life Course
Women and girls at risk: Evidence across the life course
Women and Girls Facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage

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