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Get the latest news, findings and research relating to the third sector from the Civil Society Involvement team here on our blog. We want to understand the key issues within the current European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) programme which are affecting the ability of third sector organisations to use European funds effectively.

‘No-deal’ Brexit planning is stood down as EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill is expected to pass this month

January 17, 2020

The UK Government has decided to step down preparations for leaving the EU without a deal. Julia Sweeney, Director of European Programmes and Local Growth at Ministry of Housing, Communities…

Skills, talent and diversity in the creative industries: Evidence synthesis and scoping

November 29, 2019

The creative industries are vital to the UK economy, growing at double the rate of the rest of the economy, and also delivering substantial cultural benefits both in the UK…

The Liquidity Trap: Financial Experience and Inclusion in the Liquid Workforce

November 29, 2019

In the UK today the threat of being out of work appears to have been replaced by a new worry: financial insecurity. This report from Demos finds that the liquid…

Pay progression for low-paid workers: The role of corporate decision-making

October 31, 2019

Low productivity growth, rising housing costs and a freeze of in-work benefits have resulted in an environment where, in 2017, eight million people lived below the poverty line, despite living…

Time for Demand: Boosting productivity with public investment, minimum wages and paid holiday

August 30, 2019

The New Economics Foundation (NEF) has released a new report outlining how increasing minimum wages and statutory paid holiday entitlement could solve the UK’s productivity problem. It also says that there are strong correlations…

CASE STUDY: How European Funding is helping The WEA to tackle unemployment in the Liverpool City Region

August 13, 2019

Our partners at the WEA (Workers’ Educational Association) are the UK’s largest voluntary sector provider of adult education in England and Scotland. Their support has been vital to breathing new life into communities…

Measuring Poverty 2019: A report of the Social Metrics Commission

July 10, 2019

The Social Metrics Commission was founded in 2016, in response to the fact that the UK no longer had an official measure of poverty. Its ambition was to develop metrics…

NEW FUNDING ALERT | You can now apply for the final round of ERDF funding

July 8, 2019

You can now apply to run projects backed by the latest and final round of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) funding. The calls were announced last week (28th June 2019)…

Embedding work and related outcomes into social prescribing: Overcoming challenges and maximising opportunities

June 10, 2019

In recent years, there has been increasing interest from policymakers in social prescribing as a means of improving public health and wellbeing, including recognition of its role in supporting individuals…

Pay progression for low-paid workers: The role of tax and wage regulation

June 9, 2019

There is a growing sense that work is no longer providing a reliable route to better living standards and social mobility. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that eight million working…

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