UK Community Foundations have published their annual report Philanthropy 2023 which highlights the determination of UK communities to overcome the financial crisis and the root causes of social inequity through local philanthropic activities.
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The British Red Cross report looks at the way people in the UK see risks from heatwaves.
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In the final bulletin in this series, we focus on the how rising costs are affecting health outcomes, detailing the individual and systemic problems faced by those disproportionately impacted.
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The British Red Cross report celebrates the UK’s response to people fleeing Ukraine while highlighting areas needing urgent attention.
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This report, commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport explores the lessons learnt throughout the VCSEP’s transition from being primarily focussed on supporting the voluntary and community sector response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to supporting the voluntary and community sector develop their emergency preparedness approaches and skills.
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In December 2022, the Emergencies Partnership hosted a series of scenario exercises as we relaunched the regional touch points with a table top exercise designed to test and strengthen partner relationships in response to a cold weather emergency.
This page contains summary points from the discussions and resources
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The BRC report, explores the experiences of communities impacted most severely by flooding in the UK and those who may be at risk in the future. It highlights the need for improvements in policy and practice that will ensure people are better prepared for, and can recover more quickly from, flooding in the future.
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This report traces the evolution of the Emergencies Partnership beyond the pandemic establishing our role in a broader range of emergencies. Having started to implement some of the learning from the last two years, we understand more about what makes the most difference for our partners and the people we all seek to support.
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On 8 April 2020, the Chancellor announced an unprecedented emergency funding package of £750 million for the Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector for them to continue day-to-day work during the pandemic and meet any increased demand to support people in need.
The evaluation, commissioned by DCMS takes a theory-based, mixed methods approach and aimed to assess the impact of the funding on grant holders, and on people and communities in need (impact evaluation); as well as assessing how well the scheme worked and if it was implemented as intended (process evaluation).
Highlighting how simple changes would ensure refugee families reuniting in the UK have the support they need to build a life here, BRC’s report is based on learning from the British Red Cross Family Reunion Integration Service (FRIS). The service has supported 3,994 family members arriving in the UK to reunite with their family.
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This report conducted by the Good Faith Partnership, makes recommendations towards a social covenant between faith communities and the government in the Covid-19 recovery phase. Key to this is the creation of more integrated ways of working, through the appointment of a Faiths Commissioner and an Expert Panel of Faith Leaders, to enable further strategic collaboration at all levels of local, regional and national government.
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The 2021/2022 review of the National Resilience Strategy and the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 represents an opportunity to transform the way we think about our collective responsibility and role in building and maintaining resilient communities.
This submission sets out evidence and insight and illustrates how the VCS can form an integral part of a collaborative, cross system response to planning and responding to emergencies.
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COVID-19 has dramatically altered the assumptions around emergency planning and responses. The Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership expanded its work considerably through 2020 and 2021, bringing national and local voluntary sector organisations together to construct a multi-tier framework of communication, intelligence and support. This report by the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam University draws its findings from the accounts of 170 local infrastructure organisations.
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The British Red Cross’ report, Ready for the future: meeting people’s needs in an emergency, looks at whether the current systems, structures and legislation around emergencies in the UK are people-centred and effective in an emergency.
The research highlights where change is needed and offers recommendations for improvement across seven themes.
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