Resilient Communities (July 2020)
The Cumberland Lodge Report, Resilient Communities, examines opportunities for fostering social cohesion, in ways that help communities to be more resilient to disruptive events and developments and to reconfigure more effectively in their wake. The report looks at recent event… Read more
Coronavirus and mental health research (August 2020)
The Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) are running a survey to gauge the impact of coronavirus on people's' mental health and support. The survey is aimed at people living in Scotland, over the age of 16, who receive mental health support, or have been referred for sup… Read more
2020 vision: Hear Me, See Me, Support Me and Don’t Forget Me. The impact of Coronavirus on young and young adult carers in Scotland, and what they want you to do next. (July 2020)
The results of a Carers Trust Scotland survey into the impact of Coronavirus on young carers aged 12 to 17 and young adult carers aged 18 to 25 was published in July 2020. They point to a steep decline in the mental health and wellbeing of thousands of young people across Scotlan… Read more
Below the radar: Exploring grants data for grassroots organisations (August 2020)
This paper uses the 360Giving dataset to find and explore grassroots non-profit organisations operating at the local community or neighbourhood level. Such organisations are vital to UK civil society but often fall ‘below the radar’, and have previously been under-represented in… Read more
How is COVID-19 affecting small UK charities working in international development? (June 2020)
A survey by the Small International Development Charities Network (SIDCN) of 53 small international development charities with annual incomes under £1m and employing fewer than 100 staff found that despite nearly three quarters (72 per cent) of respondents seeing demand for their… Read more
Access to food in emergencies: learning from Covid-19. (July 2020)
This report by the British Red Cross explores food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, as well as the policy, practice and guidance seeking to address it. Access to food in emergencies draws from a collection of national-level polling, interviews and evaluati… Read more
Gender and unpaid work. The impact of covid-19 on woman's caring roles. (July 2020)
This paper by Engender summarises the evidence on the gendered allocation of unpaid care for older and disabled people as well as childcare, housework, and household management. It describes how the Covid-19 lockdown has affected these patterns and analyses how they must be taken… Read more
OSCE Human Dimension Commitments and State Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic (July 2020)
This report is the culmination of ODIHR's efforts to respond to human rights challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the OSCE. It aims to help OSCE participating States learn lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic in order to strengthen their institutions ahead of fu… Read more
COVID-19 Response Report (June 2020)
This report from the Good Things Foundation states that digital has instantly become a universal need, and those without it are also those who have been hardest hit. Lockdown has exposed the cost of digital exclusion more clearly than ever before, and this cost is set to continue… Read more
The right foundations: Building a just and sustainable country after coronavirus. (July 2020)
This paper, published by CHEX, argues that by building on the community-led response to Covid-19 and by making use of ways for everyone to take part (e.g. citizens assemblies) we can build a more just and sustainable country which really begins to tackle long-term health inequali… Read more