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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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 -
How we talk: the politics of language in lived experience leadership
4 November, 2019
Peter Atherton, lived experience leader and founder of community interest company Community Led Initiatives, helped designed our Lived Experience Pilot programme. He explains the difference this made to his organisation’s funding journey. Read more -
I’m for worldwide youth action on climate change: our #TimeIsNow
5 September, 2019
Climate activist and Our Bright Future Youth Forum Member Ummi Hoque recently helped us launch our Climate Action Fund. In this blog she explains why she’s using her voice and taking action with her peers to save our planet. Read more -
Turning climate action aspirations into reality: the promise of the Climate Action Fund
2 August, 2019
Communities have many ways in which they might tackle social, financial and environmental challenges. But what they need now is the support, funding and guidance that the Climate Action Fund will offer. Read more -
Lived experience leadership, the third sector and the power imbalance quandary
29 July, 2019
The lack of lived experience representation in positions of power in the sector points to apathy and a fear of changing and adapting service models to better suit the progressive nature of today’s society, says Comics Youth’s Managing Director, Rhiannon Griffiths. Read more
