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Publications
Published reports,
occasional papers and notes of some of the
more important meetings at the
Baring Foundation are listed below in chronological order. They can
be downloaded by clicking on the
underlined heading links below.
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2009
Supporting
Parents with Learning Disabilities and Difficulties - Stories of Positive
Practice - The Baring Foundation has supported a consortium led
by the Norah Fry Research Centre on creating a better deal for parents
with learning difficulties and their children. The latest publication
from this Special Initiative gives a unique insight into how the right
support to parents produces enormous benefits to these families.
Mission
Money Mandate presents the speeches, discussion and conclusions
of the Independence Summit held at the Baring Foundation in July 2009.
This one-day event brought together 70 practitioners, policy makers,
funders and academics interested in how to advance the independence
of the voluntary sector from government. The aims of the Summit were
to join up the range of current activity to promote independence,
to look forward to future challenges to independence, to ask what
are the priorities for action and to help the Baring Foundation to
develop priorities for the fifth year of the STVS - independence grants
programme. Accompanying the main report is an
annex which gives the full text of all the speeches by Julia Unwin,
Andrew Hind, Professor Nicholas Deakin, Sir Bert Massie, Sarah Benioff
and Matthew Smerdon. Both reports are only available as a PDF.
Sitting
on Chairs: Observations on Capacity Building in Developing Countries
by John Twigg. This paper from our International Development Adviser
draws lessons from the first twelve independent evaluations from grants
that we make to UK based International NGOs to build the capacity
of Southern partners to respond to the needs of refugees and Internally
Displaced People. (In the first years of this programme grants were
made for work in Latin America and Africa and since then we have only
funded in Africa). The report concludes with recommendations to both
funders and to INGOs.
Rights
with Meaning. This report describes the 2008 round of the
STVS – independence programme with its focus on supporting advice
and advocacy organisations. Hard copies
of this publication are available free, while stocks last, from the
Baring Foundation office.
Arts
and Refugees Exchange Day October 2009 - Speech by Kate Organ.
Each year the Baring Foundation invites organisations it funds under
this programme to an all day practice exchange and discussions. This
is the closing speech of Kate Organ, Arts Adviser to the Baring Foundation
to the final such event. In it she summarises some of the achievements
and outcomes of this programme.
Ageing
Artfully: Older People and Professional Participatory Arts in the
UK by David Cutler. To accompany the Foundation's core costs grants
programme for arts organisations working with older people, we have
published the first UK wide mapping study of this work. 120 case studies
of organisations were identified and numerous examples of all art
forms, especially dance, drama, music, singing and the visual arts.
The report looks at the history of the movement and puts it in a policy
context. The man benefits of this work, beyond artistic expression
are seen as improved physical and mental health and better personal
and societal relationships. The report concludes with thirteen recommendations
as to how this work can be strengthened. Ageing Artfully has a foreword
by Dame Joan Bakewell, the Government's 'Voice of Older People'. Hard
copies are available free from the Foundation's office.
Interculturalism:
social policy and grassroots work by Malcolm James. In 2008, for
the first time the Baring Foundation funded awards the Awards for
Bridging Cultures run by the Institute for Community Cohesion. The
awards are for grassroots work. This paper looks at the implications
for social policy of the winning and commended applications. It builds
on the author's previous (2008) paper for the Foundation:
Interculturalism: Theory and Policy. It offers a critique of the
notion of interculturalism and its relationship to social cohesion
policy arguing that they are often too focused on fixed notions of
ethnicity and geography, denying the complexity of identity. This
paper is only available as a download.
Stories
Old and New and A
Moving Story
Between 2004 and 2009, the Baring Foundation has focused its arts
programme on arts organisations working with refugees and asylum seekers.
In relation to this we made an exceptional grant to the Institute
of Public Policy Research (ippr) to part fund an investigation into
the representation of migration in museums and galleries. This was
published as Stories Old and New. In response to this report
the ippr working party that commissioned it has written a short paper,
called A Moving Story, advocating the creation of a specific
museum on migration in the UK.
Participatory
Arts with Young Refugees
Six essays collected and published by Oval House Theatre. This collection
of essays explores projects in drama, video, photography and music
developed by a range of artists who work with young refugees and asylum
seekers in the UK. There is also a funder's perspective included in
the collection. Hard copies are available on request for £6 each
plus postage and packing from stella.barnes@ovalhouse.com
Living Here Project Evaluation
by Mary Ryan
An in depth evaluation of a three-year project run by Oval House Theatre
for young refugees and asylum seekers between 2006 and 2009. Hard
copies are available on request for £6 each plus postage and packing
from stella.barnes@ovalhouse.com
Report
on Conference at Wilton Park
In February this year
the Foundation part sponsored a residential conference on climate
change and international development at Wilton Park.
Independence
Summit speech
given by Matthew Smerdon, Deputy Director of the Baring Foundation.
On Wednesday 8th July 2009, the Baring Foundation held an Independence
Summit with participants from the voluntary sector, government and
academia. The three aims of the event were to (i) join up the range
of current activity to promote independence – what is being done,
what is being learnt? (ii) look forward – what are the future challenges
to independence, what are the gaps, what are the priorities for action?
and (iii) help the Baring Foundation to develop priorities for the
fifth year of the STVS independence grants programme. The day was
a combination of speeches and work in small groups. Speakers included
Andrew Hind CE of the Charity Commission, Sir Bert Massie, Commissioner
for the Compact, Sarah Benioff, Deputy Director of the Office for
the Third Sector and Julia Unwin, Director of the Joseph Rowntree
Foundation. A report of the day will be available later this year
The
First Principle of Voluntary Action edited by Matthew Smerdon.
The current focus of the Foundation's Strengthening the Voluntary
Sector grants programme is on helping voluntary organisations to maintain
their independence from government. The independence of voluntary
action is a principle that has clear resonance in many other societies,
in the UK, in Europe and across the Atlantic. The Baring Foundation
commissioned essays from authors in seven countries (Canada, England,
Germany, Northern Ireland, Scotland, United States of America and
Wales) to review issues relating to independence from government.
Together, the essays confirm that independence is fundamental to the
principle and practice of voluntary action. They explore the many
ways in which independence can be threatened and power exercised over
voluntary action. Finally they share lessons about what voluntary
organisations can do to protect their independence. We no longer have
any hard copies of this report.
The
Effective Foundation: a literature review
by David Cutler. In recent years a number of
authors especially in the USA but also in the UK and the rest of Europe
have addressed the unique position of foundations and how this best
be applied for achieving maximum impact. Much of the key literature
is considered and ten conclusions drawn.
Hard copies of this publication are
available free, while stocks last, from the
Baring Foundation office.
2008
Fair
Deal for Familes? learning from the experience of parents with a learning
disability
The Baring Foundation supports the Scottish
Consortium for Learning Disability through our special initiative
for parents with learning difficulties and their children. This report,
by the SCLD, marks an important step forward to wide awareness of
this issue in Scotland.
Funding
campaigning & policy work: The philanthropy of changing minds
The Foundation worked with City Parochial Foundation to hold a seminar
for trusts and foundations on funding campaigning and social policy
work. This report summarises the presentations and workshops at the
seminar.
It's the System,
Stupid! Radically Rethinking Advice.
Advice UK received an STVS - independence grant in 2006 to develop
an alternative approach to organising local legal advice services.
This report, by Advice UK, summarises the findings of this work that
have led to new pilots being set up in Nottingham, Manchester and
Coventry.
The
new politics of climate change; why we are failing and how we could
succeed.
The Foundation has supported a new pamphlet by Stephen Hale of Green
Alliance which outlines the role that the third sector can play in
persuading politicians to take action to combat climate change on
the scale that is needed.
New
Self Assessment Tool for the Independence of Voluntary Organisations
As part of our Strengthening the
Voluntary Sector programme on independence we have produced a self
assessment questionnaire and resource list. It has been launched in
collaboration with the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Commissioning,
Contracts and the Third Sector
In October our Core Costs Club (recipients of major grants from the
Foundation) met to discuss the above. Presentations from three of
the speakers are linked to this document.
Report
on Conference at Wilton Park ( a follow-up to the
2007 report "Going Global")
The Baring Foundation and the
Nuffield Foundation part-funded in April a major conference at Wilton Park, the residential centre for the
Foreign Office. The Partnerships for Development Forum brought together development experts, NGOs and foundations
from the UK and abroad to look at the contribution private funding can make.
Arts and Refugees; History, Impact and Future
Along with two other funders, the Arts Council England, London and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the
Baring Foundation commissioned Hybrid Consultancy to look at work over the last fifteen years across the UK to involve refugees and asylum seekers in the arts. The researchers identified over 200 arts
organisations working with refugees across all media. The report was launched
at the Baring Foundation on 20th
May. Hard copies of this publication are available free, while stocks last,
from the Baring Foundation office.
Strengthening the Hands of Those Who Do: A Review of the
Baring Foundation's Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Programme Project
Grants by Margaret Bolton.
This programme ran between 1996 - 2005 and gave out hundreds of grants
for organisational development worth up to £30k with an average value of £8k.
This review looks at the impact of
these grants on a random sample of
50 organisations. Hard copies of this publication are available free from the Baring Foundation office.
Interculturalism: Theory and Policy by Malcolm James.
The Baring Foundation has decided to launch a Special Initiative on
Interculturality - but what is 'interculturality' anyway? To help analyse the thinking behind what for many people is a new
concept, we have commissioned this paper. Hard copies of this publication are
available free from the Baring
Foundation office.
2007
Climate Change - Notes of a Core Costs Club Meeting.
In October 2007 our Core Costs Club met and discussed the
topic of climate change and the
third sector.
Same Difference? Revolving Doors Agency's approach to
replicating innovation. For some time the
Baring Foundation has had an interest in how good ideas in the voluntary sector are spread. In 2004 we part
funded Diana Leat's report on replication (see below). This new paper is a
case study by Revolving Doors Agency arising in part from work funded by the Foundation. It sets out seven lessons from their experience in a clear way and with relevance
to many other charities.
Going
Global: A review of international development funding by UK trusts and
foundations by Lucy de Las Casas and Caroline Fiennes of New Philanthropy
Capital. This report was commissioned by three funders of international
development: the Nuffield Foundation,
Paul Hamlyn Foundation and ourselves. It places trust funding within the broader context of government and individual
donations. Trusts are a significant funder of civil society and highly valued
by International NGOs. Indeed many small and medium sized INGOs rely on
foundations for support. The researchers concentrated on somewhat smaller
foundations and asked what motivates them
or discourages them from funding
internationally. The commissioning group wants to support others to fund overseas and if you are interested
in doing this please phone the
Director of the Baring Foundation,
David Cutler on 0207 767 1414.
STVS
- independence grants programme - a summary. This is a short summary of the STVS - independence grants programme setting
out why the Foundation is
interested in this issue and sharing results of the
research carried out so far.
STVS - independence - submission to the Public
Administration Select Committee
In March 2007 the Baring
Foundation made a submission to the
Public Administration Select Committee's Inquiry on Commissioning from the Third Sector. This built on the evidence generated by the
Strengthening the Voluntary Sector - independence grants
programme.
Interculturalism -
notes of a Core Costs Club meeting
In February 2007 our Core Costs Club met and discussed the topic of interculturality.
Sources of Strength: an analysis of applications to the STVS
independence programme by Cathy Pharoah.
This is the second publication
in the series of papers that accompanies the Foundation's Strengthening
the Voluntary Sector independence
programme. It contains an analysis of most of the
515 applications to the
STVS independence programme, which are an important source of information
about current pressures on independence.
Click here to read the speech given
by the Foundation's Deputy
Director, Matthew Smerdon, at the launch of "Sources of Strength".
Foundations
for Organisational Development: Practice in the UK and USA by Meg Abdy
and Margaret Bolton The Baring Foundation has co-funded this publication with
the Northern
Rock Foundation. It is written by two independent consultants with
considerable experience in the
field. Hard copies of this publication are free from the
Baring Foundation while stocks last.
2006
Core Costs Club meeting on
Campaigning
Note of a meeting of the Core
Costs Club held on 18 October 2006
Gains and Strains: The
Voluntary Sector in the UK 1996-2006
Speech by Professor Nicholas Deakin C.B.E.
Allies not Servants
This is the
first publication in a series of papers that accompanies the Foundation's Strengthening
the Voluntary Sector independence
programme. This publication sets out why the
Foundation is interested in the
issue of independence.
Exhibiting Support...developing volunteering in museums.
This summary report was written by the
Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR) and commissioned by the Baring Foundation.
We gave three grants to very different museums to support their use of volunteers and asked IVR to evaluate
how they got on and draw broader
lessons. The result is a lively and practical report looking at the context to volunteering and drawing
conclusions on recruitment and involvement, management, funding and learning
about volunteers along with pointers to further
resources.
Finding the Right Support?
A review of the issues and positive practice in supporting parents with
learning difficulties and their children by Beth Tarleton, Linda Ward and
Joyce Howarth.
An increasing number of adults with learning difficulties are becoming
parents. The Government has committed itself to providing appropriate support
for these parents and their children and yet in around 50% of cases
children are removed and placed permanently outside the
family home. The report includes an agenda for action. The Baring Foundation
has subsequently funded the Norah
Fry Research Centre to lead a consortium to pursue these
recommendations.
2005
Filling
Gaps and Making Spaces edited by John Twigg.
This report brings together a
collection of nine essays on projects funded by the
Baring Foundation in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America since 2000. They
all capacity build local voluntary organisations supporting refugees and
internally displaced people. The Foundation's international adviser, John
Twigg, considers the implications
of this body of experience for other
funders and for the British
Government.
Small Arts Grants 1997-2004: An Overview by Phyllida Shaw.
Over this period the Baring
Foundation received 3,328 eligible applications and awarded 535 grants worth
£1.75 million. Most grants were around £5,000. The Foundation's Arts Adviser
analyses these applications,
trends over time and puts them in
context of changes in wider arts funding policy. The Foundation continues to
fund the arts and details of our
current programme can be found on the
Programmes page of this website.
Sources
of Funding for Organisational Development by Marketa Dolezel.
This resource was written by a Visiting Fellow to the
Foundation from the Czech
Republic. Readers should be aware that information on funding dates quickly
and should check this carefully with the
relevant funder.
Support for Diaspora Organisations in London Following the
Asian Tsunami by Ellie Robinson.
A small scale piece of research on the
experience of 21 mainly London based organisations after the tsunami on Boxing Day 2004. These groups
provided money and other forms of
support to the victims. The report
looks how these organisations
could be better supported by other
funders.
2004
The
Grantmaking Tango: Issues for Funders by Julia
Unwin.
This book asks 'what sort of funder do you want to be?' It goes on to give a
simple framework for grant makers of giving, shopping and investing as styles
of funding. It is based on over ten years experience in the field by the
author and has become an indispensable guide to reflective trusts and
foundations. Funded by the Abbey
Charitable Trust, Bridge House Trust, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Lloyds TSB
Foundations and the Baring
Foundation.
Speaking
Truth to Power - 2004 by Julia Unwin.
This paper looks back to the
experience of the third sector in the first term of the
Labour Government. It draws attention to measures that would enhance the relationship between the
sector and Government, arguing that both would suffer if the voice of the
voluntary sector was confined.
2003
Replicating Successful Voluntary Sector Projects by
Diana Leat.
Why don't successful voluntary sector projects spread more widely? In seeking
to answer this question, this report is based in a literature review, case
studies and interviews with funders. It concludes with a series of
recommendations. It outlines seven stages in the
process of replication. Published by the
Association of Charitable Foundations with funding from the Baring Foundation, Community Fund, Diana
Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and the
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
Hard copies of this report can be obtained from The Association of Charitable
Foundations
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Leading the Way to ICT
Success (2002) by Paul Ticher,
Aba Maison (lasa)
and Martin Jones (AdviceNow).
Most senior managers and board members are not ICT experts, so working out
how best to use technology is something of a journey into the unknown. Nevertheless
there are those who negotiate
this journey successfully. This study aims to identify what we can learn
from seeing how some voluntary organisations are reaching their desired ICT destinations. The report
argues that senior managers who are well-informed and confident about their ICT strategy are the
key to success. These managers do not have to be experts but they do need access to reliable advice in
non-technical language. The report makes recommendations on how senior
managers, board members, umbrella bodies, funders and other agencies can support and develop the leadership that voluntary and community
organisations need to take advantage of the
opportunities that ICT offers.
This report is funded by the
Baring Foundation and the Worshipful Company of
Information Technologists.
You can order a free hard copy of the
report by email or
telephone (020 7767 1348) or write to The Baring Foundation, 60 London
Wall, London EC2M 5TQ.
Capacity building
and its challenges:
by Dr John Twigg. A review of the
Baring Foundation's International Grants Programme 1997-1999 (2001).
This review examines the nature
and achievements of projects funded by the
Baring Foundation's international programme between 1997 and 1999, to
assess their impact, and to
consider lessons for future capacity-building initiatives.
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Merging Interests
(2000) by Bill Mather.
This book seeks to guide the
decision-makers in a voluntary organisation from the
first moment of consideration of merger, through to full implementation. It
offers advice to practitioners - trustees, directors and funders - on
exploring the issues and
pathways to achieve effective collaboration and join the
forces of voluntary organisation with voluntary organisation. It outlines
options and innovatory models of joint working as steps on the way to merger, or as alternative end
results, providing insights and tools to help achieve best returns and
avoid costly mistakes.
Health Action Zones
(2000) by Julia Unwin and Peter
Westland.
This study considers the ways in
which the voluntary and
community sectors have become involved in the
Department of Health's Health Action Zones by presenting three case studies
which highlight the challenges
of forging meaningful partnerships between the
voluntary and statutory sectors.
Speaking Truth to Power
(2000) by Julia Unwin. The
voluntary sector's relationship with Government.
This is a discussion paper about the
changing relationship between government and the
voluntary and community sector. It draws on the
experience of, mainly, national organisations working in England to address
a range of issues including the
opportunities and challenges offered by engagement with a government which
aims to be more consultative at both central and local levels.
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