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The Big Lottery Fund is encouraging people across the UK to share ideas about the future of all those organisations and services that improve people’s lives – called ‘doing good’. They have commissioned a report by Sonia Sodha to set out the issues raised by the current challenges that face charities, voluntary and community groups in particular. Now the Big Lottery Fund is working with the Bevan Foundation to find out what people in Wales think.
The aims of the project are:
Find out more by reading our short discussion paper in English or Cymraeg or watch the video
Funders: Big Lottery Fund (commission)
Start date: November 2016 End date: March 2017
The final report of the project will shortly be available along with an online article by the Director of the Big Lottery Wales.
Victoria Winckler considered the independence of the third sector in Wales in an online article. She also made presentations to:
We’ve held roundtable discussions to tease out the issues and challenges in North and South Wales. The findings from these sessions, as well as interviews and the survey, will form the basis of the final report.
The project was launched on 24th November 2016. Bevan Foundation Director Dr. Victoria Winckler gave a keynote speech to an audience of more than 50 Assembly Members, third sector organisations and Welsh Government officials, alongside Big Lottery Fund CEO Dawn Austwick, John Griffiths AM and an amazing performance by dance company UDoIt.
Lottery funded @DanceUDOIT doing a quick practise run before they wow everyone at our #FutureGood event with their moves. pic.twitter.com/Nk6spVXpRf
— BigLotteryFundWales (@BigLotteryWales) November 24, 2016
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