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Age UK have published a new report this week on the impact of the cost of living on older people: Tackling the cost of living crisis for older people: What the Government must do. They report that it’s clear that for millions of older people […]

The Inter Faith Network (IFN) has recently updated the resource section of its document Looking after one another: The safety and security of our faith communities. This document was originally created in consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and […]

Clinks, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have published ‘The State of the Sector Survey’, which aims to get a picture of the current challenges facing voluntary sector organisations and some independent practitioners working with people in contact with the criminal justice system […]

In 2023 and 2024, the Home Office is continuing to provide protective security measures to places of worship in England and Wales under two schemes: Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme Protective Security for Mosques Scheme The schemes provide funding for places of worship […]

Clinks, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are holding an event to launch the Older People in the Criminal Justice System (OPIC) network is designed to bring together voluntary and statutory organisations and practitioners, as well as academics, who provide services for and/or […]

People from ethnic minority communities in Britain are, on average, more affected by the climate and nature crises than White British people due to profound societal inequity, according to an evidence review by NPC and the Race Equality Foundation as part of the Everyone’s Environment […]

The government is calling on anyone who tops up their energy via a traditional prepayment electricity meter (PPM), to redeem money-off vouchers before they expire on 30th June. The Energy Bills Support Scheme, which ran between October 2022 to March 2023, enabled households to save […]

Next month sees the official start of summer, so attention has been turning to what the next season may hold, particularly when it comes to weather.  The Met Office’s three-month outlook, published on 1 May, forecasts that the months of May, June and July have […]

NCVO have published their key findings from the latest Time Well Spent report. New data has shown the impact of COVID-19 and the Cost-of-Living crisis on volunteering and the experiences of those involved. Headline findings included: Volunteering levels in some key activities have decreased. The […]

The Emergencies Partnership is currently compiling the experiences of the VCSE sector in a Cost-of-Living – Lessons from the Voluntary Sector report. The Partnership would like to sense check themes and topics that have arisen and are holding a drop in session to ensure that their […]