by Alison Seabrooke | Apr 30, 2013 | CDF
You may – or may not – know that CDF has been a grant funder for nearly 15 years and during this time we have provided funding to communities on behalf of many Government Departments. These include the Cabinet Office, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural...
by Alison Seabrooke | Oct 30, 2012 | CDF
Over the last six months I have been party to events, discussions and insights into projects across the country that are working with young people who have tough lives and difficult circumstances. These young people will almost all live in areas which lack investment...
by Alison Seabrooke | Mar 12, 2012 | CDF
In March CDF published six case studies, which document the work of community projects tackling crime in their local community. The projects received funding from the Community action against crime: Innovation fund (CAAC:IF), a two-year £10million programme managed by...
by Alison Seabrooke | Jan 30, 2012 | CDF
The narrowness of the debate around service delivery has excluded the argument and evidence for addressing the issue of cuts and delivering multiple services in a cost effective way, by reviewing what we mean by ‘service delivery’. Between 2008 – 2011 CDF managed the...
by Alison Seabrooke | Aug 21, 2009 | Academic article
Reflections on the meaning of ‘place’. How people perceive their locality and how they feel about where they live can deeply affect their lives. To my mind, a sense of ‘place’ and belonging to a community is based on common issues and needs. Above race and...
