Last Friday saw the close of the first round of applications for the Innovation in Giving Fund - a £10m fund established by the Office for Civil Society and NESTA - to invest in new ideas with the potential to bring about a significant uplift in giving and exchange of time, assets, skills, resources and money to achieve social goals.
Given the current fiscal context, it’s entirely understandable that debates about the future of public services are dominated by how to make fewer financial resources go further – how to get more with less.
The 17 community organisations involved in our Neighbourhood Challenge programme have posted their first blogs and we’ve awarded some fun prizes for the best ones.
Like many of the best innovations, first aid training was a simple concept with a powerful impact – equip people with the skills to help out other people.
Apparently the average productive time of a drill in its entire lifetime is about 12-13 minutes.
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