by Alison Seabrooke | Jan 15, 2015 | CDF
Community First – a time to reflect As many of our supporters will know, the Community First programme will come to an end in March 2015. Since the programme began in 2011, we have awarded over 15,000 grants worth £23.8m to community projects across England. These...
by Alison Seabrooke | Nov 1, 2014 | Guest blog
Let me introduce Carolyn and Angela. They run weekly drop-in sessions in their community centre in Billborough, Nottingham. It’s a place where local people, many of whom are older people or people with disabilities, can drop in for a cup of tea and a chat. Their...
by Alison Seabrooke | Oct 30, 2014 | CDF
Over the past three weeks, CDF has had a presence at the party conferences of the three main parties: Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Whilst it would be impossible to summarise everything that was talked about, here are the three key things that I wanted...
by Alison Seabrooke | Oct 28, 2014 | Guest blog
The coalition government has slashed funding for small community groups, which all too often are seen as the “nice to have” part of our society. They are praised and thanked, but their true social and economic contribution is overlooked. Yet they are the glue holding...
by Alison Seabrooke | Sep 30, 2014 | CDF
In August, the Community Investment Coalition (CIC), of which the CDF is a proud partner, responded to HM Treasury’s consultation on British Credit Unions at 50. It remains a worrying fact that there are currently around 1.4m individuals in the UK who do not have a...
