Newsletter - Barrow Cadbury

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• IVAR Repo

• “Small Change” funding initiative

• Social and Ethical Investment

• Barrow Cadbury Trust at the 2011 Pay Conferences

The Barrow Cadbury Trust

is an independent,

charitable foundation,

committed to suppoing

vulnerable and

marginalised people in

society.

The Trust provides grants to

grassroots voluntary and

community groups working

in deprived communities in

the UK, with a focus on the

West Midlands. It also

works with researchers,

think tanks and

government, oen in

panership with other

grant-makers, seeking to

overcome the structural

barriers to a more just and

equal society.

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Message from the Chief Executive

Criminal Justice Migration and Europe Povey and Inclusion

The last six months have seen enormous challenges unfolding acrossEurope. While not in as poor a shape as some others, our economycontinues to falter and our young people are experiencing not only veryhigh unemployment rates but the very real prospect of beingpermanently less well off than their parents’ generation. Cuts tostatutory sector provision are really beginning to bite and we know thiswill continue to worsen for some time to come. Local authorities arecutting vital provision to vulnerable people in ways which we (and they)

know will have far-reaching consequences and incur higher costs in the future. As thestate is cut back, women’s lives in particular become more difficult. The list of thingswhich are difficult and challenging is a long and sobering one. All of our lives are touchedto a greater or lesser extent.

So in our newsletter we have consciously brought you some good news stories. Somehighlights for us over the past few months, and which give us hope are:

• The sentencing process for young adults in the UK now recognizes the concept of‘maturity’ as a factor for the first time; this has been a key aim of the T2A Allianceand is a concretely successful outcome.

• The Changing Minds funding collaborative has successfully established ‘British Future’as an independent organisation which aims to deepen and inform the public debateabout identity, migration, integration and fairness.

• We have launched a new grants programme to support small-scale sustainable localaction with seed funds in the West Midlands (http://www.bctrust.org.uk/?p=1500).

• Our Board has agreed that up to 5% of the Trust’s endowment can be used forprogramme-related investment and the Charity Commission has issued guidancehelpfully clarifying how charities can engage in ‘social investment’ i.e. investment for a social as well as financial return.

• The Trust continues to spend more than its income at the current time because weknow how tough it is for so many communities and organisations.

• Members of the ‘Habits of Solidarity’ network supported by the Trust spent two daysin Belfast to meet with community organisations and share learning about approachesto building cohesion.

• In keeping with our Quaker roots, the Trust is supporting an initiative tocommemorate the Friends Ambulance Unit and Friends Relief Service peaceablecontributions during times of conflict. A memorial is to be built at the NationalAboretum at Lichfield. We will feature this project in a later newsletter.

Seasonal greetings to all and remember these words of the philosopher, Karl Popper:OPTIMISM IS A MORAL DUTY!

Sara Llewellin Dec 2011

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In September, The Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) launched anew report: Beyond money: A study of funding plus in the UK, the final report ofresearch funded by Barrow Cadbury Trust, The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial

Fund and Trust for London.The report examines different approaches to funding plus used by UK charitablefoundations, identifying the principal benefits, challenges and risks of theseapproaches in order to generate practically useful learning about funding plus. Thereport usefully makes a distinction between work seeking to strengthen theorganisations we fund in order to increase their effectiveness and work advocating forpolicy change in our chosen fields. Both are valid approaches, but each raise adifferent set of practice issues for thoughtful funders to consider.The research found that the funding plus field comprises a broad range of definitions,purposes and activity. Within this IVAR were able to identify five overarchingpreconditions for success in funding plus:

• Strong personal relationships;

• Good knowledge of grantees and the sector in whichthey operate;

• Grantees that are ready and willing for an engagedrelationship with a funder;

• Bespoke rather than standardised or prescriptiveapproaches;

• Careful and responsible management of powerrelationships between funder and grantee.

In the Foreword (co-signed by Sara Llewellin, SionedChurchill, Trust for London, and Andrew Cooper TheDiana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund), the report’sfunders noted that:

“Our purpose in commissioning this study was to put together a smorgasbord ofapproaches that funders are currently taking to adding value to their work. Wewanted to compare and contrast, to illuminate the ethical and practical dilemmasemerging from a variety of experimental work. We specifically did not want to imply‘grants good, funding plus better’ and we very much hope it will not be seen as such.Rather, we wanted to explore whether and when funding plus can be better, andwhether and when it should be eschewed.

We all need to make best use of all of our resources, money being only one of them(albeit usually the greatest). We rather take issue with the authors’ statement that ourprincipal raison d’être is to make grants. We do not think it is. Our raison d’être is toachieve mission impact as charities in our own right. Money is just the major meanswe use to pursue that mission. Indeed, some of our work could be described as not‘funding plus’ but ‘plus funding’, where we work on issues with partners and themoney just makes the work possible”.

The full report can be downloaded here:http://www.ivar.org.uk/publications/reports-and-publications/beyond-money-study-funding-plus-uk

IVAR Repo on ‘Funding Plus’in the UK

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The Barrow Cadbury Trust has launched a new smallgrants initiative, aimed at catalysing mutual aidamong local communities in Birmingham and the

Black Country. Targeted at small community groups, theTrust will provide grants of up to £3,000 to supportinitiatives that will help local people help each other.Funding could kick start projects such as Timebanks, food co-ops or community gardening schemes.

The key criterion is that, once the initial grant is ended,projects are not dependent on further grant funding fromthe Trust or elsewhere, but sustain themselves throughvoluntary effort or social enterprise. This is a funddesigned to give local projects a timely boost or the toolsthey need to do the job. For more details, go to theBarrow Cadbury Trust’s Poverty and Inclusion Programmewebpage http://www.bctrust.org.uk/?page_id=691.

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“Small Change” funding initiative launched

If you are running any community projects,you might be interested to know about the ‘YourSquare Mile mutual’, a mutual created by citizensfor citizens, open to everyone aged 16 or over inthe UK. The first of its kind, membership costs£10.00 and members have benefits including £1mof Public Liability Insurance and £25,000 ofPersonal Accident Insurance to cover any kind ofvolunteering, a free legal services helpline and20% off printing to help you promote local activityin your community. The Your Square Mile Mutual isalso negotiating new deals including faster andmore affordable CRB checks especially for smaller,local charities, a loyalty card for discounts at localshops in partnership with the Big Issue and cheaperstreet party insurance for the 2012 Jubilee andOlympics parties. More details, including newsabout additional deals, are available on the websitehttp://yoursquaremile.co.uk/ysm-home/the-mutual/members-offers/

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offers practical tips to help charitiesensure their savings and investmentsbest support their mission. It exploressome of the latest thinking in the field,including the growth of social impactinvesting. The guide was launched aspart of National Ethical InvestmentWeek, a week of action aiming toincrease awareness of and support forinvestments that have a positive actionon society and the environment. Formore information about NEIW andethical investment, visithttp://www.neiw.org/charities_guide

The second grant was awarded for thestart-up phase of a new organisation,Ethex. Ethex is an online site that aimsto make ethical investment easier andmore widely available, without the needfor expensive intermediaries. It seeks tobring together individuals andorganisations interested in socialinvestment with social businesses thatare ready to receive investments. TheTrust’s grant contributed to theestablishment of Ethex’ website, andthe organisation is now looking to thesecond stage of its development.

The third grant has enabled SocialFinance to undertake a feasibility studyto assess whether a Birmingham-basedwellbeing project ‘Be Active’ could befunded through a Social Impact Bond(SIB). SIBs are a way of enablingorganisations to enter into payment byresults contracts without taking on thefinancial risk of only being paid if theinterventions are successful. Under aSIB, third party investors (at present

One of the Trust’s aims is tostimulate and nurture thegrowing interest in social

investment – the move away from anexclusive focus on traditional stocks andshares, towards investment incompanies that aim for a positive socialimpact as well as a financial return –currently being pioneered by fundersand other investors. In pursuit of thisgoal, the Trust has made a number ofgrants that will either help increaseopportunities for social investment orassist newcomers to move their assetsinto this arena. In September, BarrowCadbury’s trustees agreed that up to5% of the Trust’s endowment could bedevoted to social and mission-relatedinvestment.

Three grants have been made to datethat will help develop this area of work.The first was the sponsorship of anAction Guide for Charities, which

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mainly Trusts and Foundations and afew private investors) pay the providerorganisation in advance. If the interventionis successful, the Government pays adividend to the investors.

Be Active is a large-scale Birminghamprogramme which provides free accessto a network of leisure centres andfitness activities across the city. Itappears to be very successful inimproving health and increasingcommunity cohesion, but in order to befunded through a SIB, its benefits wouldneed to be quantified and translatedinto measurable (cash) savings. Thefeasibility study will test whether this ispossible, and assess the viability of theSIB model to the Be Active service.

In traditional payment by resultscontracts, the organisation providing apublic service is only paid if they achievea certain success rate (for exampleorganisations contracted under theWork Programme contract, a bigpayment by results initiative fromnational Government, only get paidonce people have got and stayed inwork for a certain length of time). Fewcharities, voluntary sector organisationsor smaller social enterprises have theworking capital to allow them to enterinto such contracts, both because ofcash flow constraints and because ofthe risk of not being fully reimbursed.

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Lord Navnit Dholakia, le, DeputyLeader of the Liberal Democrats inthe House of Lords and President ofNacro, speaking at the T2A LiberalDemocrat Pay Conference fringeevent in September;

Mike Maiden, CEO of Staffordshireand West Midlands Probation, right,repoed on the success to date ofthe T2A project in Birmingham.

Pay Conferences 2011In recent years, the party politicalconferences have been a goodopportunity for the Barrow Cadbury

Trust to ‘speak truth to power’ bothdirectly and indirectly, by supportinggrantees to attend and hold events, andby engaging directly withparliamentarians, party officials andimportant key individuals andorganisations. The Trust was present atall three main party conferences in2011, and a number of grantees weresupported to attend. Each of the Trust’sprogrammes was represented atconference fringe events.

Pay conference ‘mood music’

The major themes of the conferenceswere the spending cuts and the conceptof the ‘localism’. In contrast to 2010,when it was noticeable that there wascaution applied to the way VSOspublically articulated their views of thelooming cuts and the comprehensivespending review, particularly whenthere were MPs or ministers present,this year civil society concerns wereraised in a more direct andconfrontational way.

The Liberal Democrats defended theirrole in the cuts with the position thatthe cuts would have been more severewithout their influence within thecoalition. The Labour Party attacked thedepth of the cuts with caution,acknowledging that they would havealso undertaken cuts to public services.The Conservatives were unwavering intheir defence of the cuts, citingpayment by results as the mainmechanism for delivering ‘value formoney by not paying for failure’.

Last year, a large proportion of fringeevents included ‘big society’ in theirtitle. This year, virtually no events usedthis term, and the phrase wasnoticeably absent from ministerialspeeches and presentations. Rather, theumbrella term this year was ‘localism’,closely aligned to ‘community’. BorisJohnson spoke of the need to ‘bring thevillage to the city’.

Criminal JusticeThe Trust organised and hosted a T2A event at each of the party conferences. Eachevent involved speakers from the T2A Alliance, a relevant Minister or senior partyrepresentative, and a representative from the T2A pilots. These were the onlyevents at party conferences to directly address young adults in a criminal justicecontext. Each event was attended by between 35 and 45 attendees, with a highquality of discussion and useful access to senior parliamentarians.

MigrationThe Trust held a fringe event at the Labour party conference in partnership withPolicy Network entitled ‘Is the rise of anti-immigration parties inevitable in an openEurope?’ with Maurice Glasman, Labour peer and political theorist, MargaretHodge, Labour MP for Barking and Lilianne Ploumen, president for the DutchLabour Party (PvdA). In addition, the Trust supported the Director of Article 1,which campaigns against human rights abuses in Darfur in Sudan, to attend theConservative party conference.

Povey and InclusionThe Trust partnered with Demos and the Friends Provident Foundation to host apanel event at each conference to address issues around financial inclusion. The events focussed on the challenge of the economic downturn, as well as theopportunities to engage people and communities directly in financial health, fromusing the Localism Bill to develop community finance and credit sources andsupport to exploiting social media and other technological advances.

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The T2A Conservative Pay Conference fringe event in October, pictured from right to le: The Rt. Hon. Crispin Blunt MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice; Sara Llewellin, CEO BarrowCadbury Trust; Clive Main, Director, Clinks; Vicki Helyar-Cardwell, Director, Criminal Justice Alliance


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Sentencing young adultsThe Transition to Adulthood (T2A)Alliance, which is convened by theBarrow Cadbury Trust, continues itscampaign to improve services andoutcomes for young adults in thecriminal justice system. T2A Alliancemember, the Criminal Justice Alliance,has published a new report for T2A oneffective sentencing of young adults.

The report argues that the sentencingof young adults should take intoaccount the maturity of the offender,rather than just their chronological age.It sets out the current situation withregards to the sentencing of youngadults, examines the case forconsidering maturity as part of thesentencing process and discusses whatthe benefits of this approach would be.It considers how a new approach tosentencing young adults could beimplemented in practice, and makes thefollowing recommendations for change:

• A version of the German SentencingModel for young adults, whichenables young adults aged 18-20 tobe sentenced under juvenile law

where appropriate, should be pilotedin England and Wales.

• Lack of maturity should be seen as afactor reflecting reduced culpabilityand a factor reflecting personalmitigation in the development ofsentencing guidelines.

• Sentencers should receivecomprehensive training onunderstanding maturity, and theimpact of lack of maturity, to betterinform their sentencing decisions.

• Service providers should work withthe courts and probation to engagewith sentencers and make themaware of any young adult-specificprovision that is available in theirarea, and sentencers shouldunderstand its importance.

• Young adult-specific interventionsand services need to be madeavailable in custody and in thecommunity, and strong links madewith the courts and probation.

A parliamentary event to discuss thereport was held in late October, whereparliamentarians and experts debated

the findings. The Criminal JusticeAlliance are undertaking a new T2Aproject to understand the attitudes ofcriminal justice professionals to theconcept of maturity in the sentencingprocess, and the findings of this workwill be published in the Autumn of 2012.

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Criminal Justice Criminal JusticeAims to suppo people who are within or at risk of entering the criminal justicesystem, to improve their life chances with a focus on young adults.

T2A has launched a new website (www.t2a.org.uk), which contains all of the latest news,events, publications and evidence from the T2A Alliance campaign and projects.

Peer-mentoring as pa of the London T2A project,run by the St Giles Trust.


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New grants

Founded in 1909 by George Cadbury Jr.,grandson of Cadbury’s co-founder John,Fircroft College of Adult Educationis based in his former family home, anEdwardian building set in six acres ofgardens in Selly Oak, Birmingham. It was originally created to provideeducational opportunities for some ofthe most disadvantaged and excludedmembers of society. One hundred yearson from its establishment, its mission of‘social justice’ is remains as relevant asever. The College runs a number ofshort courses throughout the year,many of which are aimed at studentswith no or few prior formalqualifications, helping them to improvetheir skills and confidence, achievepersonal and career goals and to reachtheir true potential. There is also a fulltime Access to Higher Educationprogramme for students who wish togo on to University. Fircroft has a wealthof expertise in working closely withvoluntary sector organisations to fulfiltheir purpose and mission.

From 2012, Fircroft will run a newprogramme for ‘Prolific and PriorityOffenders’ (PPOs), those who pose theirgreatest threat to the safety andconfidence of their community. Manyin this group have drug problems andcommit crimes linked to funding theirdrug addiction. The project is expectedto meet the needs of PPOs at the pointof leaving prison and is based around a10 week residential learningprogramme. The first cohort is expectedto start in January 2012. A grant fromBarrow Cadbury Trust will go towardsthe evaluation of the project.

Clinks will lead a three part project forT2A from 2011-13, intended to extendthe impact of T2A practice at theexisting T2A pilot sites (in Birmingham,West Mercia and London) and newareas. The Clinks’ localism team willprovide intensive support to new areasthat Clinks identify as willing and readyto develop a T2A approach, ensuringthat it is sustainable and suited to local need.

Young Minds will undertake anenquiry for T2A into the relationshipbetween mental health services andtransitions for 16-24 year olds andoffending behaviour. The three-partenquiry to look at the relationshipbetween mental health services youngpeople in the transition to adulthood,including poor transitions betweenchildren’s and adult services. It willexamine whether lack of poor provisionexacerbates offending behaviouramong young people who are in touchwith the criminal justice system. Finally, recommendations will be madefor systemic reform. This work will be undertaken in partnership with City University and the Centre forMental Health, and will be completed in late 2012.

Birmingham-based equalities think-tank, Brap, will undertake a researchproject aimed at enabling a betterunderstanding of the experiences, viewsand needs of young people at risk of orinvolved in guns and gang related crimein Birmingham, providing an overviewof statutory, private and voluntarysector responses to guns and gangrelated crime in Birmingham (andrelated links to West Midlands wideprovision), and makingrecommendations for future supportand research in this field. This willreport in summer 2012.

One of the clothing designs created by young peopleas pa of the “Hoodie to Entrepreneur” project inBirmingham, run by Barrow Cadbury granteeNationwide Learning.


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Trust suppos new organisation British Future

The Trust is pleased to announce that ithas awarded a grant to British Future,a new social justice organisation.Sunder Katwala, the organisation’sDirector, said:

“The organisation will be called BritishFuture. Our ambition will be to informand deepen the public conversation onissues of identity, immigration,integration and fairness. The nameBritish Future reflects our belief thatthese issues present challenges for thewhole of our society, about the valuesthat we wish to uphold as a society,rather than for specific communities orfor migrants alone. We will seek tocontribute to a rational debate whichreflects both the positive contribution ofimmigration, and also engages with theeconomic and cultural anxieties it cangive rise to. We will seek to increasepublic involvement with thesechallenges in the interests of identifyingworkable solutions for our sharedfuture, which are capable of securingpublic consent by being fair to citizensand to migrants.”

British Future is currently supported bythe Barrow Cadbury Trust, the Diana,Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, theOak Foundation, the Open SocietyFoundations, Trust for London andUnbound Philanthropy, and is located inthe Barrow Cadbury Trust’s offices.British Future will be governed by anindependent expert Board of Trustees.For further information please contact:[email protected].

Ifri’s EuropeanTask Force onIrregular MigrationsThe concluding reports of theEuropean Task Force on IrregularMigration, led by the French Institute

for InternationalRelations (Ifri) havenow been published.This initiativeexamined localsolutions to irregularmigration in the UKand four other

European countries and was supportedby the Barrow Cadbury Trust and Île deFrance.

Women forRefugee WomenWomen for Refugee Women has alsobeen in the media recently, discussingits work with asylum seeking andrefugee women. Highlights include thispiece in Marie Claire, as well ascoverage in the Observer, Guardian and on Radio 4.

MigrationObservatoryIn November 2011, the MigrationObservatory at Oxford Universitylaunched Thinking Behind the Numbers,a public opinion poll exploring theBritish public’s attitudes towardsmigrants and migration. It found thatrespondents were most likely to thinkthat people come to the UK to claimasylum, even though this is currently avery small percentage. The report wascovered in the Telegraph, Mirror and ina Daily Mail article featuring Kalayaan,campaigners whose work with migrantdomestic workers the Trust supports.

Migration and EuropeAims to help ensure that migration is managed in a way that is equitable andsocially just and that the voices of both migrants and receiving communitiesare heard in the public debate.

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Transatlantic Trends: Immigration 2011survey published.The annual ‘Transatlantic Trends’ survey on immigration was launched inDecember. Started in 2008, the survey compares public attitudes on immigrationand integration in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. It provides avaluable opportunity to consider British attitudes to immigration in a comparativecontext. This year the survey examines public attitudes to the Arab Spring and EUburden sharing. It also explores what the public think about economic migrationand seeks to identify what they value most in prospective immigrants. The KeyFindings report and topline data can be found on the German Marshall Fund ofthe United States (GMF) website http://trends.gmfus.org/immigration/about/The survey is a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, theBarrow Cadbury Trust, Compagnia di San Paolo, with additional support from theFundación BBVA.

All-Pay Parliamentary Group on MigrationSupported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust and Unbound Philanthropy, the All-PartyParliamentary Group on Migration (APPG) also continues to holdparliamentary events, most recently on the care sector, and also to producebriefings on key immigration issues. In November the APPG, in conjunction withthe Migrants Rights’ Network and Chatham House, held a high-level event on‘Global Migration: The Challenges for the West’s Political Leaders’.

Cities of Migration, a web-based platformfor best practice, is looking for outstanding

examples of city leadership on immigrant integration from across the world. Itrecently launched a call for Good Ideas that highlight how local governments canfacilitate the settlement and integration of newcomers, and promote immigrantand city success. The deadline is 30 January 2012 and full details can be found onthe website http://citiesofmigration.ca/.

Kanlungan is a registered charity consisting of fiveFilipino community organisations that work closely

together for the welfare and interests of the Filipino community in Britain. InOctober, the group launched five briefings based on its research into the effect ofimmigration changes on senior care workers in the UK. The briefings address abroad number of issues including the role migrant senior care workers play in theUK, the impact immigration changes have had on their lives and will have on theUK care industry. Kanlungan hope that the briefings can be used by senior careworkers, civil society groups, unions and MPs to raise the profile of the challengescurrently being faced by senior care workers. For copies of the briefings contactJamima Fagta at [email protected]

New GrantsIn September, BarrowCadbury Trusteesapproved a grant toRestore, a project ofBirmingham Churches

Together. Restore seeks to help,welcome and support asylum seekersand refugees through a range ofactivities and partnership work. A grant from the Trust will enableRestore to strengthen and create newpartnerships to meet emerging gaps inprovision for asylum seekers andrefugees in Birmingham and the BlackCountry. In addition, the group will alsoidentify opportunities to raise the voiceof clients and civil society groups in thelocal and national media and act as arepresentative for the Birminghamasylum and refugee sector whereappropriate.

The Trust ispleased to

announce its support for PolicyNetwork’s forthcoming projectentitled: ‘Immigration, populism andelectoral politics.’

At a time of growing distrust inmainstream political parties, as well asrising economic insecurity, populism andpopulist narratives are resurgent acrossEurope. This research project willexamine the effects of populistnarratives on mainstream politicalparties and their electoral strategies. It seeks to explore how mainstreamparties respond to the challenge ofpopulism and debate potentialprogressive answers to this challenge.

At European level, theTrust recently renewedits commitment to the

European Programme on Integrationand Migration (EPIM) and will supportthe next phase of this programme. EPIMis a strategic pooled fund aimed atstrengthening civil society groupsworking on migration and integrationissues in Europe.


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ProgrammesPovey and InclusionAims to reduce financial exclusion through changes in policy, and to helpcommunities respond to the new ways in which public services will beprovided and managed. We want our funding to try to ensure that the voiceof local people, paicularly those in disadvantaged areas, is heard and thatcommunities are strengthened in this time of change.

The Habits of Solidarity network consists of eight fundedgroups from across England. These groups are deliveringinnovative projects that bring communities together andaddress issues that include closure of local services andfinancial exclusion. Groups regularly come together to sharelearning and meet other organisations working on relatedissues. In September the network travelled to Belfast tomeet groups in the city working to address conflict andissues of poverty in different ways. Over two days thegroups met with representatives from Belfast Islamic Centre,the Northern Ireland Law Centre, Belfast Interface Networkand the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland.

This was the first time many of the network members hadvisited Belfast. Participants and staff were struck by thecohesion challenges that still exist within the city, but also bythe wealth of community activism going on to addressthem. An aspect of the visit groups found particularlypowerful was a walking tour conducted by Coiste. Tourguides for this organisation are former political prisoners,who were able to give participants their own unique insightinto the political and social history of the city – well worthlooking out for if you visit Belfast! Members of the networkwill take learning from Belfast back to their own groups.

Several members of the network who are based inBirmingham and the Black Country have now run jointprojects and share expertise outside of network meetings.An evaluation of the network is currently being conductedby the Third Sector Research Centre. For more informationon the Habits of Solidarity Network please contact Clare Payne at [email protected]

Community OrganisersSchemesThe Trust is delighted that two of our grantees have beenselected to be part of the national CommunityOrganisers Scheme, a programme created by the Officefor Civil Society in the Cabinet Office (OCS), and a keyelement of the Government’s Big Society agenda.Birmingham Settlement is one of 11 ‘kickstarter’organisations chosen to pilot the national scheme, thefirst step of which will involve recruiting communityorganisers who will help create a better local society.

The Centre for Equality and Diversity based in Dudleywill also be working on the programme to recruit andsupport up to five local community organisers.

Thierry Barholere (right), community development worker at the Centre forEquality and Diversity, with local Dudley residents during a community clean-up.

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While there, the Habits of Solidarity group visited the famous murals in Belfast.

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Centre for Social JusticeAwardsThis year we were delighted to sponsor a Centre for SocialJustice award, which are £10,000 cash prizes to voluntaryand community sector groups that demonstrate innovationand effectiveness in addressing the causes andconsequences of poverty. Our award went to Made ofMoney, a Quaker Social Action project that supportsfamilies on low incomes to enable people to take control oftheir finances. Made of Money does not tell people what todo, but does give practical advice and, as importantly, helpsfamilies explore their attitudes and values around money sothat they can communicate better about financial issues.To learn more and see a short film about Made of Money,visit http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk.

Early Intervention TaskForceCommunity Links, an innovative East London charityworking both at the grassroots and national levels, knowsthat “building fences at the top of the cliff rather thanrunning ambulances at the bottom” makes sense bothsocially and financially. Politicians and other leaders talkabout the importance of early action, and there is virtuallyuniversal agreement that switching resources from acute topreventative services makes sense. However, over the yearsit has proved very difficult to shift resources from one to theother and in the current climate of austerity, it tends to bethe preventative services that lose out.

In recognition of this, and with the support of the Trust,Community Links has set up the Early Action Taskforce(EATF) - a group of charity, business and political leaders -to help build a society that prevents social problems fromarising rather than one that copes with their consequences.The EATF will be launching its preliminary findings and callfor action on 23 November, and continuing its work untilthe middle of 2012, by which time it hopes to have createda body of evidence, and a set of solutions, that will help usto build more fences and reduce the number ofambulances. For more information, go tohttp://www.community-links.org/our-national-work/early-action/

New grantsThe Chamberlain Forum, a “think anddo” tank in Birmingham, set up to helpcitizens and public services join togethermore effectively to create better places tolive and work, conducts action research,community engagement projects and

provides peer and shared learning programmes. WithBarrow Cadbury Trust funding, the Chamberlain Forum willrun an 18 month programme of action research andcollaborative enquiry. It plans to look at how five differentprojects, each using a different approach, affect communitystrength and resilience. Findings from these projects shouldenable the forum to articulate how communities can createand manage change and how this can help combat povertyand exclusion. The Forum will link its work to emergingideas and policy around localism, coproduction, socialcapital and assets, neighbourhood equity, and learningthrough dialogue.

The grant to the Chamberlain Forum complements two on-going projects, one run by the New Economics Foundationthat is looking at the impact on communities inBirmingham and London of the economic squeeze, andhow communities can make use of co-production models(where those using services help shape and deliver them) toimprove their situation. The other related project is run byUrban Forum in Dudley, and is looking at how localcommunities can make use of the new rights set out in theLocalism Bill. The Trust will report the findings of the threeprojects as they develop over the coming year.

Policy ExchangeLondon-based think tank, Policy Exchange, is beingfunded by the Trust to investigate the impact of the recentrecession on older workers, who can be very badly affectedby loss of employment. Policy Exchange will be looking atthe impact of the Work Programme and policydevelopments such as changes to the retirement and statepension ages, as well as developments such as the digitalrevolution. It will look at possible options to minimise the‘scarring’ effect of a period of unemployment on the futureprospects of older workers. The project complements thevalid and more widespread concern about the bleakoutlook for many younger workers, but reminds us that the lives of older, as well as younger, people can bepermanently affected by inability to find work.


Staff listCorporate Team

Chief Executive:Sara Llewellin

Executive Assistant andHuman Resources Officer:Madeleine Rooke-Ley

Corporate Affairs Manager:Sharon Wellington

Head of Finance and Administration:Mark O’Kelly

Finance and Administration Assistant:Dorota Szabat (from July 2011)

Programme Team

Head of ProgrammesDebbie Pippard

Grants and Outreach Officer:Marina David

Migration and EuropeProgramme Manager:Ayesha Saran

Criminal JusticeProgramme Officer:Max Rutherford

Grants and Outreach Officer:Clare Payne

Programme Administrator:Asma Aroui

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Operation Black VoteOperation Black Vote is an organisation dedicated to enabling the AfricanBritish and Asian British communities to actively engage in political life. It seeksto inspire these communities to engage with our public institutions in order toaddress the persistent race inequalities in areas such as education, health andemployment, and the persistent underrepresentation of minority communities inthe political sphere. Its work spans a number of areas including voterregistration, lobbying politicians, mentoring schemes and political leadershipprogrammes with all the major parties.

With Trust funding, Operation Black Vote will establish a West Midlands CivicLeadership Programme. The training will offer an opportunity for interestedindividuals to become involved as political leaders, magistrates or schoolgovernors. The project will start in early 2012. For more information, go tohttp://www.obv.org.uk/.

The Trust is supporting involvement in social actionthrough a grant to the Sheila McKechnieFoundation, to support voluntary and communityorganisations to raise awareness and improve equality

of access to services for campaigners. A grant from the Trust has enabled theFoundation to add a West Midlands-based freelancer to support and traincampaigners in the region, who will help organisations build their capacity andskills to influence policy and practice. This project is a practical way in which theTrust can add value to the ‘voice projects’ it supports locally, such as OperationBlack Vote, Saheli Women’s Group, and Women Acting in Today’s Society(WAITS).

Balsall Heath Forum was set up to support localpeople build a safer, stronger and more sociallyresponsible neighbourhood in what was, in the1970s, an area in decline. The Forum is now a

focus for voluntary activity and helps galvanise social activity and provide a voicefor local people. Since it was established, the Forum has transformed the areafrom a disparate ‘sink’ area to one where people have pride in their communityand work together to make it an attractive and popular place to live. The Trust’sgrant is intended to provide interim funding while the Forum works towards asustainable future through becoming more closely involved in managing thelocal neighbourhood budget. Its intention is to create a sustainable model forengaged communities that can be replicated in other areas of Birmingham andfurther afield.

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