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 | 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 | 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...
by Alison Seabrooke | Sep 10, 2014 | CDF
Each of our departments has its own contribution to make – our Research team is providing innovative ways of measuring the impact the voluntary and community sector makes. We are active campaigners and key to the delivery and management of the Community Investment...
by Alison Seabrooke | Jul 22, 2014 | CDF, Guest blog
In recent years, there has been a marked shift in the debate on socially responsible business. At one time “social responsibility” meant setting aside a proportion of pre-tax profit for good causes as a kind of public relations tax. Yet the political fall out from the...
by Alison Seabrooke | Jun 30, 2014 | CDF
I am a huge advocate of peer-to-peer learning and networking in communities and between community groups. It’s the place where people are able to speak frankly about their ideas, as well as any challenges they have faced, with people like them. I recently realised how...
