Blog posts
Looking for colour, context and perspective about the work of The National Lottery Community Fund, its impact on communities and topics currently in the news? It’s all here. This blog will explain, explore, showcase and examine the ways in which civil society, and as a result the sector, is changing. Read about what people in communities across the UK and sector thought leaders have to say and form your own opinion.
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Leading rapid change at scale: leadership, digital & connection during #COVID19
31 March, 2020
Laura Bunt, Deputy Chief Executive at We Are With You, reflects on charities' experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and how they are facing the daily challenges of a rapid transition to digital working while maintaining the connection with the community, colleagues and partners. Read more -
The importance of resilience and responsiveness for Digital Fund grantees at this time
27 March, 2020
Cat Ainsworth, Co-founder at The DOT PROJECT discusses her insights of the factors which are enabling Digital Fund grantholders and their teams to be highly responsive at this time of COVID-19. Read more -
Leadership from Digital Fund grantees in unprecedented change
22 March, 2020
Phoebe Tickell, Digital Portfolio Officer at The National Lottery Community Fund discusses how moving into the digital sphere has helped charities and community organisations to act and adapt quickly to the challenges of COVID-19 & the lockdown. Read more -
Leadership coaching for projects involving large-scale change
11 March, 2020
Coaching leaders to unlock their organisation’s potential is key for digital growth, says The Dot Project’s Cat Ainsworth Read more -
How can we make more collective progress when funding single organisations?
4 March, 2020
Most of the challenges and opportunities facing individual grantees can better be explored and resolved with more partners involved and we must find more ways for these partners to be brought meaningfully into a shared journey says, Founder of Shift, Nick Stanhope. Read more -
How is Doteveryone’s Consequence Scanning helping Digital Fund grantees build more responsible tech?
14 February, 2020
Alex Mecklenburg and Kirsty Cameron discuss what ‘responsible technology’ means the difference between Consequence scanning and risk management. Read more -
Sharing the learning from the Digital Fund — monthly sense-making around a theme
12 February, 2020
Phoebe Tickell discusses the challenges, sense-making, learning and insights around thematic areas we’ve gained from the 29 Digital Fund grantholders. Read more -
Climate change is everyone’s business, so let’s all act to address it
31 January, 2020
With a recent survey showing that three quarters of people in the UK say the environment will be important to them in 2020, John Rose, our Director for Wales and environment lead, discusses our environment strategy. Read more -
How continuous digital improvement leads to content customers
17 January, 2020
Our ambition to ensure continuous digital improvement in how we work has led our software developers to transition to agile methodology and more user testing. Read more
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Matt Andrews
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Senior Developer
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- Digital
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Introducing the Digital Fund — and a different way of funding digital
13 December, 2019
Phoebe Tickell Digital Portfolio Officer at The National Lottery Community Fund introduces the Digital Fund and its approach to funding in a digital and networked age. Read more
