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ACEVO’s Pay & Equalities 2024 survey highlights little meaningful change

Stuart Mitchell

The ACEVO Pay and Equalities 2024 survey has once again highlighted that little meaningful change has been made on some of the key issues which continue to affect our sector’s leadership. This includes a highest hitting gender pay gap, a lack of investment in learning and development opportunities, and a lack of diversity across leadership and boards. The gender pay gap has risen from 8.3% last year to 14.4% this year, reaching its highest since the 2014 survey. Women continue to be overrepresented in the leadership of smaller charitieswhilst male…

UK’s largest community funder to put community power at the heart of funding in England

Stuart Mitchell

The National Lottery Community Fund has committed to at least £3 billion of life-changing funds in England by 2030. The announcement comes as a new survey finds that over half (55%) of UK adults feel proud to live in their local area. However, 45% say that residents have too little say in making their local area better. Of those surveyed, over half (56%) said that local people (residents’ associations and other people who live in the area) should help decide how funding in their area should be used. 42% said…

Weston Charity Awards 2025 open for applications

Stuart Mitchell

Applications are now open for the annual Weston Charity Awards. Transformational support packages worth over £22,000 each are available for up to 22 ambitious front-line charities specialising in community, environment, welfare, or youth support.  Registered charities in Wales, the North of England, and the Midlands are eligible to apply if they have delivered a service for over two years, have at least one paid full-time member of staff in a leadership position,and have an income of less than £5 million per year.  The Awards are a collaboration between the Garfield Weston Foundation and…

Brixton Village’s Black Farmer receives £250k investment from fund for underrepresented entrepreneurs

Stuart Mitchell

On 5th November 2024, the Growth Impact Fund (GIF), a social impact investment fund developed by Big Issue Invest and UnLtd has made an investment of £250,000 in The Black Farmer – a farm shop opened in Brixton Village by celebrated entrepreneur Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones MBE last year.   With only 1% of UK farmers from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, Emmanuel-Jones founded The Black Farmer to challenge this exclusion and showcase that Black entrepreneurs can succeed in traditionally exclusive markets. He believes that black entrepreneurs can also belong in markets…

Forests get a boost from new GCF policy on REDD+ results-based payments

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) recently adopted a landmark policy on REDD+ results-based payments, a major boon for forest finance. The decision was made at the 40th meeting of the GCF Board. REDD+ (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) is based on the principle that developing countries which reduce their emissions from deforestation and forest degradation can receive financial compensation, known as results-based payments. This is a highly efficient way of financing emissions reductions, as payment is made for verified emissions reductions. In addition, REDD+ results-based payments deliver a…