ACEVO recommends curates noteworthy resources, content, and events pertinent to sector leaders.
Messaging the Moment: challenging anti-migrant agitators
Reframing Race has published guidance on how to talk to anti-migrant agitators and to people drawn into their orbit. This is part of its Messaging the Moment series, designed to help anyone trying to change our collective conversation on ‘race’ and migration towards futures that lift us all.
Good Place to Live: New Beginners Fund
Organisations across England and Wales can apply for funding through the Good Place to Live: New Beginnings Fund, Lloyds Bank Foundation’s first step in ensuring that everyone in England and Wales has a home that’s a good place to live. If your organisation works with people at risk of homelessness, we encourage you to explore the fund, find out about your eligibility and consider whether the New Beginnings Fund could help you achieve your goals.
2027 GSK IMPACT Awards & GSK Community Health programme – open for applications
The GSK IMPACT Awards are for charities with total annual income between £150,000 and £3 million. They are funded by GSK and provide core funding and free training for charities doing excellent work to improve people’s health and wellbeing. Up to 15 awards will be made, ranging from £5,000 to £50,000, plus free training and development valued at a further £13,500. Closing date Wednesday 19 August 2026.
Have your say in Wave 15 of the VCSE Barometer
The VCSE Barometer is a quarterly survey that captures the pressures, priorities and changes facing voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. It turns organisations’ real-world experiences into timely evidence for the sector, funders and decision-makers.
VCSE organisations are balancing funding pressure, rising demand, inflation, energy costs and workforce challenges. Wave 15 is about making sure the evidence we produce helps with the decisions behind all of that. Closes 5 August.
Research into public trust in charities
Annual Charity Commission research on public trust in charities is now out. Trust in charities remains resilient: 57% report high trust (stable since 2020) and charities continue to outperform almost all other institutions. Trust in charities is driven by contact with them and awareness and understanding of the Commission. Trust in turn fosters donating and volunteering. Read report.
Right support, right time: insights from the sector
New research from Cranfield Trust, delivered with pro bono support from nfpResearch, highlights the pressures facing small charities and the types of specialist and targeted support that will have the biggest impact for charities and the sector in the years ahead.
Drawing on the perspectives of funders, charity leaders, volunteers and staff, the findings released in the new report, Right support, right time: Insights from the sector, present a picture of a sector working under sustained strain, but clear on the value of practical, relational support that strengthens leadership and organisational resilience.
UKGrantmaking 2026
360Giving launched UKGrantmaking 2026, bringing together data on over 14,000 grantmakers across Government, Trusts and Foundations, National Lottery distributors, Donor-Advised Funds, and Charities – showing not just how much was given in 2024-25, but who gave it. Read in full.