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A new tool to help you recruit volunteers flexibly
August 12, 2015
This is a guest post from Sam Reeve, Project Manager at Project Dirt, an online network connecting and resourcing environmental and community projects. In the past couple of years I have volunteered for a couple of days serving lunch to …
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95 tips to help your community crowdfund
August 5, 2015
This is a guest post by Jess Ratty, Brand Communications Manager at Crowdfunder UK. Crowdfunding means raising money for your project through donations online and many communities across the UK are using crowdfunding as a part of their ‘funding mix’. We’ve …
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Featured project: Sahahra Project
July 28, 2015
Earlier this year, the Just Act team were out and about visiting community projects to find out and share what they do. In January 2015, we met with Nick and Jangir who both volunteer at the Sahahra Project in Derby. …
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Guest blog: Life-changing opportunities from volunteering locally
July 20, 2015
Kerry-Anne is Youth Director at Cadence Café CIC in Tyldesley, near Wigan. In this blog she tells us in her own words how volunteering at her local arts café as a student has turned into full-time paid work and …
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Do-it Live Chat Summary
July 14, 2015
Gemma Petty, Network Officer at the Community Development Foundation fills us in on the highlights of the live forum chat with Do-it, the largest volunteering database in the country. Do-it has over a million volunteering opportunities and has around 250,000 …
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Featured project: bringing together different faiths in Luton
June 30, 2015
In March 2015 we visited Kim Greig, the Near Neighbours Co-ordinator for Luton at the Grassroots centre where the project is based. Near Neighbours is a national programme of grants and training, funded by the Department for Communities and Local …
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Featured project: Bringing the arts to the whole community
June 16, 2015
Nucleus Arts is an arts organisation created in 2002 to promote the arts to everyone in Medway, and more widely across Kent. In March 2015 we met Natasha Steer, Nucleus’ Education and Community Development Coordinator in the thriving Café Nucleus, …
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Featured project: Residents tackling crime
June 10, 2015
Recently, the Just Act team visited Chris Hoare, founder of the Birmingham South West Group, a residents’ group set up over 25 years ago to tackle crime, prostitution, anti-social behaviour and other issues troubling his estate. Keep reading to find …
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Power to the people! Community groups’ role in a healthy democracy
June 5, 2015
In this blog post, Jamie Evans, who is a Researcher at CDF, explores the findings of their latest research ‘Trust and democracy: how community groups bridge the gap between people and politics’. In our latest research, we demonstrate that community …
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Improving neighbourhoods by bringing faiths together
June 1, 2015
Find out about two of the Near Neighbours coordinators, Tim Clapton from East London and Becky Brookman from West London, and see how the programme has strengthened communities brought people of different faiths together in their areas.
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