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#InspiringCommunities #communityledchange

📅 As year-end looms, charities face the familiar strain of funding uncertainty. But the push for #multiyearfunding is gaining traction—offering stability, growth, and real impact. Sustainable funding builds #strongercommunities.

#ThirdSector #CharityFunding #Regeneration #CommunityLedChange

What if sustainability started with justice?

🎧 Explore how co-created food systems can be more equitable, inclusive, and resilient.

Listen here: bit.ly/3ZbsCe0

#JusticeInFood #SustainableFutures #CommunityLedChange

Because when funding is fair, and voices are valued, we build stronger communities—together.

#ThirdSector #CharityFunding #MultiYearFunding #Regeneration #CommunityLedChange #SocialJustice #PreventionNotCrisis #SpringStatement

🎉 Our REACH Strategic Review is complete!

A huge thank you to the National Lottery Community Fund, and to Paddy McKenna & Ellie Hutchison for their brilliant work.

We’re excited for what’s ahead — watch this space! 🌱

#InspiringCommunities #REACH #StrategicReview #CommunityLedChange

𝗔𝗛𝗠𝗘𝗗 𝗧. 𝗔𝗕𝗗𝗨𝗟𝗞𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗥: The narrative of empowerment can sometimes overshadow reality. The case of Ethiopia's gender equality awards is telling. #WomenEmpowerment #GenderJustice #EqualityNotOptics #CommunityLedChange #DevelopmentCritique

Read more - ow.ly/BAU350VLMHh

Are you an #InspiringCommunities stakeholder? 💬
We’d love your views to help shape our REACH (Review, Engage, Align, Co-design, Harmonise) Strategic Review.

Survey closes 5 Sept → forms.gle/zheneQfjudZP...

#REACH #CommunityLedChange #Stirling

Each year, 4–6,000 UK charities fold. Last week, Cumbria Overseas Aid Trust (COAT) closed its doors — and generously passed their remaining funds to us.

We’ll use them to bring clean water to a village in Kasulu District, Tanzania.
#CleanWater #CommunityLedChange #COAT #TanzaniaDevelopmentTrust

Your voice has power. Whether you've used a service, supported someone else, or just want to see fairer systems, we want to hear from you.

There are lots of ways to get involved — and every bit counts.

📝 Sign up: forms.office.com/e/N2V1mWSCXS
#TakePartTuesday #CommunityLedChange #LivedExperience

Huge congratulations to the 14 projects funded through Community Sparks Grant Programme!!! ➜ thcvs.org.uk/community-sp...

Thank you to the Mercers' Company & Wakefield & Tetley Foundation for supporting this project.

#CommunitySparks #Poplar #CommunityLedChange #TowerHamlets

☀️ As summer nears, so do the gaps.

Routines vanish. Support thins. Some children go unseen.

At Inspiring Communities we’re adapting—🌱 #intergenerational work, 🧩 #familysupport, 🤝 local collaboration.

Let’s build with, not for.

#SummerGaps #CommunityLedChange #CoProduction

🚨 New blog alert! 🚨

Read insights from Dock Branch panel member Cole Small and Dr Rebecca Crook on our partnership and journey towards community-led change.

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groundswelluk.org/GroundsWellB...

#DockBranchPark #Birkenhead #UrbanRegeneration #Communityledchange

Last week we did sign making at the Naenae library, next week we start submissions, how to write them, how to speak to them… this is just the beginning… we’ve come too far to not go further. #communityledchange

𝗔𝗛𝗠𝗘𝗗 𝗧. 𝗔𝗕𝗗𝗨𝗟𝗞𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗥: The mechanics of funding and project design present a notable paradox. #WomenEmpowerment #GenderJustice #EqualityNotOptics #CommunityLedChange #DevelopmentCritique

Read more - ow.ly/Uoxx50VKufs

www.imagine-pacific.com/2025/05/imsp...

🌀 IMSPARK: Pacific-Led Resilience Without Borders 🌀

Labels: #ClimateLeadership, #CommunityLedChange, #DisasterRiskReduction, #IMSPARK, #IslandInnovation, #PacificResilience, #PRPModel, #UNDRR