|
At the end of the chronological list you will see
the same publications listed by category as follows: Strengthening the
Voluntary Sector
|
| 2012 | |
| Global grant-making. As a follow up to Going Global published in 2007 (click here to download a copy of Going Global), the same foundations, Nuffield, Paul Hamlyn and ourselves, have commissioned an update on the scale and character of the contribution of independent foundations in the the UK to international development, called Global grant-making. Based on information from 2009/10 it concludes that foundations provide around £292 million in funding to civil society working on development, roughly half that from the Department for International Development. This is around 9% of the total spending of all UK foundations. Foundations fund a wide range of work and Africa attracts the largest percentage of funding at 37%. The report concludes with a series of challenges and issues for foundations working in this field. |
 |
| Protecting
Independence: The Voluntary Sector in 2012 The Foundation has a long standing interest in the independence of the voluntary sector. In 2011 we initiated the Panel on the Independence of the Voluntary Sector. This is a five year initiative to bring together a group of authoritative sector figures to make a regular public statement on the state of voluntary sector independence in order to stimulate reflection, debate and action. This is the panel's first statement. |
 |
| 2011 | |
| On
the Front Foot In 2006, the Foundation made 22 grants under its STVS – independence programme. This programme was a response to the expanding role of many voluntary agencies in delivering a range of services in partnership with the state and a concern about the impact of these changes on their independence of action. The report describes the grants that were made and reviews the results. It finds that certain types of organisational resources seemed particularly helpful, including work on improving monitoring and evaluation, negotiation skills and strategic planning. Most important, however, seems to have been the opportunity that grants gave organisations to reflect on who and what they are, their core identity and values. It was this that then moved organisations to use their new organisational resources in active and confident pursuit of their independence. A limited supply of hard copies are available free of charge from |
 |
| The
outcomes & impact of youth advice – the evidence The Foundation has been supporting work to gather evidence of the role and value of legal advice on different parts of the population. This report, by James Kenrick from Youth Access, focuses on children and young people. The report demonstrates the critical difference that getting good advice can make to young people’s health and well-being, and highlights the contribution that advice services can make to the achievement of a range of major central and local government policy goals relating to health, education, employment, housing, poverty, crime and child protection. The report also contains important messages for local front-line advice services about good practice. For example, it identifies the service characteristics that appear to be most closely related to achieving good outcomes for young clients, including face-to-face advice provided through independent, holistic, young person-centred services. |
 |
| Legal
aid in welfare: the tool we cannot afford to lose The Foundation has been supporting work to gather evidence of the role and value of Legal Aid. Scope has looked at the impact of the proposed changes to Legal Aid on disabled people. The report draws on the experience of disabled people, with case studies that map out the impact that removing legal aid would have. The report makes clear that removing legal aid for welfare benefits cases will undermine the Government’s own ambitions to support more disabled people into work and deprive many of them of the very support that can make work viable. |
 |
| Legal Aid is a Lifeline:Women Speak Out on the Legal Aid Reforms. The Foundation has been supporting work to gather evidence of the role and value of Legal Aid. The National Federation of Women’s Institutes has produced a powerful report called Legal Aid is a Lifeline. It focuses particularly on the needs of women who have experienced domestic violence and presents the results of focus groups with WI members and a literature review of the case for funding civil cases involving victims of domestic violence. The messages are clear: access to legal aid is a vital life saving resource for women who have experienced domestic violence; and the current proposals to cut Legal Aid represent a real threat to justice and fairness. This undermines the government’s own commitment to tackle violence against women. You can watch a short film about the research - click here. |
 |
| A Decade of International Development Funding. The Baring Foundation has commissioned its Adviser Dr Tina Wallace to write an in-depth report on its approach to international development funding. This will be published in 2012. In advance of that we hope that this report on our approach for the last ten years will be of interest. | |
| Creative
Homes: How the Arts can contribute to quality of life in residential
care. This is a joint publication
with our partners NCF (the National Care Forum - the umbrella
body for not for profit care providers) and NAPA (the National
Association for Providers of Activities for Older People). It
is intended to celebrate existing good practice in the use of
the arts with and for older people in residential care and to
inspire more and better work. Hard
copies are available free of charge from |
 |
| An
Evidence Review of the Impact of Participatory Arts on Older People.
This independent review by the Mental
Health Foundation was commissioned by the Baring Foundation and
is the first synthesis of the evidence base for the effects of
participating in artist-led creative projects on older people.
It is based on 24 peer reviewed studies and a further seven good
quality evaluations which have not been peer reviewed ('grey literature')
and lists more than 50 other studies. It concludes that 'it is
evident that engaging with participatory art can improve the wellbeing
of older people and mediate against the negative effects of becoming
older.' It explores these impacts in terms of mental and physical
wellbeing and the broader effects on communities and society.
Hard
copies are available free of charge from |
 |
| Voluntary Sector Independence. This is the first publication of the new Panel on the Independence of the Voluntary Sector, which has been established by the Baring Foundation to consider the state of independence of the sector over the next five years. The Panel will be looking closely at the evidence in order to shed light on this important issue and make recommendations. This consultation document defines independence, explains why it is so important and flags up issues that have already been raised as concerns. These include the potential negative impact of government commissioning and funding arrangements, as voluntary sector bodies deliver more services, and the effect of recent cuts in government support for voluntary sector bodies. |
 |
| Collaborating to Advise; lessons from Avon, Coventry and Nottingham. This report, by consultant Kevin Ireland, looks at work by advice organisations in Avon, Coventry and Nottingham where the Foundation is supporting a range of organisational development through the Strengthening the Voluntary Sector grants programme. The circumstances for advice organisations are extremely challenging. Rather than retreat, the organisations discussed in this report have reached out to others to pursue their shared aims in imaginative and creative ways. There have been significant benefits in terms of improved capacity and improved relationships with the respective local authorities which, in turn, point to better services for people being supported. There have also been challenges, and the report reviews ways in which the impact of collaboration can be enhanced. |
 |
| Creative Ageing Conference Perth 29th March 2011 - Speech by David Cutler to an all day event at Perth Concert Hall organised by Creative Scotland and the National Forum on Ageing. The conference launched a funding collaboration between the Baring Foundation and Creative Scotland for a national arts festival for older people. | |
| Use it or Lose it: A summative evaluation of the Compact by Practical Wisdom R2Z. David Cutler, Director of the Baring Foundation, was a Non-Executive Director of the Commission for the Compact from 2007 until its abolition in 2011. This report was the final piece of research funded by the Commission and describes the relevance of the Compact to the voluntary sector in general and the prospects for its future. |
 |
2010
Baring Foundation
Report on Activities 2010
Hard
copies are available free of charge from
| Report of a learning event for the Joint International Development Programme held in Entebbe, Uganda. In November 2010 the John Ellerman and Baring Foundations for the first time held a conference for our grantees in Africa. The report by Tina Wallace, adviser to the programme, describes this very successful meeting. | |
| Housing
Associations in England and the Future of Voluntary Organisations
by Andrew Purkis.
This report, funded by the Baring Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree
Foundation, focuses on the timely question of what happens to
voluntary organisations if they take over mass delivery of state
services. This question has dominated voluntary sector practice
and policy in recent times. Interestingly, Housing Associations
rarely feature in the debate. Yet, this is the outstanding example
of a take-over of state services by the voluntary sector in our
times. The report reviews the territory and reflects a number
of interviews with key people in this field. It ends with a series
of challenging questions about the future for Housing Associations
and the wider voluntary sector. Hard copies are available free of charge from |
 |
|
An Unexamined
Truth by
Matthew Smerdon. The Stern Review
on the Economics of Climate Change in 2006 concluded that climate
change threatens the basic elements of life for people around
the world. We also know that the people who will be most affected
are those that are already the most vulnerable. This is a truth
that has gone largely unexamined by non-environmental voluntary
organisations working in the UK. This report by the Baring Foundation
describes a pilot project that has supported non-environmental
voluntary organisations to explore how the impacts of climate
change will affect their primary charitable purpose. The approaches
taken by the four groups of organisations that led the work
will be of interest to all those in the voluntary sector, the
independent funding community and in government that are interested
in practical ways to widen the circle of organisations involved
in action on climate change. |
 |
2009
| Baring Foundation
Report on Activities 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 |
 |
| Sitting
on Chairs: Observations on Capacity Building in Developing Countries
by Dr. John Twigg. This paper from our International Development
Adviser draws lessons from the first twelve independent evaluations
of grants that we make to |
 |
| 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 are available free of charge from |
 |
| Arts and Refugees Exchange Day October 2009 - Speech by Kate Organ. Each year the Baring Foundation has invited 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 Hard copies are available free of charge from |
 |
| Interculturalism: social policy and grassroots work by Malcolm James. In 2008, for the first time the Baring Foundation funded 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. | |
| 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 |
|
| 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 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 2009 the Foundation part sponsored a residential conference on climate change and international development at |
|
| 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 |
 |
| The
Effective Foundation: a literature review
by David Cutler. In recent years a number of authors
especially in the Hard copies are available free of charge from |
 |
2008
|
Baring Foundation Report
on Activities 2008 Fair Deal
for Familes? learning from the experience of parents with a
learning disability Funding campaigning
& policy work: The philanthropy of changing minds It's the System, Stupid!
Radically Rethinking Advice The
new politics of climate change; why we are failing and how we
could succeed New Self Assessment
Tool for the Independence of Voluntary Organisations Commissioning,
Contracts and the Third Sector Report of a roundtable meeting on environmental auditing Report of a roundtable meeting on the links between climate change and the charitable purposes of non-environmental organisations Report on Conference at
Wilton Park (a follow-up to |
|
| Arts
and Refugees; History, Impact and Future Along with two o Hard copies are available free of charge from |
 |
| 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 Hard copies are available free of charge from |
 |
| Interculturalism:
Theory and Policy by Malcolm The Baring Foundation has decided to launch a Special Initiative on Interculturality - but what is 'interculturality' anyway? To help analyse Hard copies are available free of charge from |
 |
2007
|
Baring Foundation Report on Activities 2007 Climate Change
- Notes of a Core Costs Club Meeting. Same Difference?
Revolving Doors Agency's approach to replicating innovation.
For some time |
|
| 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 Baring and John
Ellerman Foundations International Development Programme Review
2006/2007 - Review Report STVS - independence
grants programme - a summary. This is a short summary of
STVS - independence
- submission to the Public Administration Select Committee Interculturalism
- notes of a Core Costs Club meeting |
|
| Sources of Strength: an analysis of applications to the STVS
- independence programme by Cathy Pharoah. This is |
 |
| Click
here to read the speech given by |
|
| 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 Hard copies are available free of charge from |
 |
| 2006 | |
|
Baring Foundation Report on Activities 2006 Core Costs Club
meeting on Campaigning Gains and Strains:
The Voluntary Sector in the UK 1996-2006 |
|
| Allies
not Servants This is |
 |
| Exhibiting
Support...developing volunteering in museums. This summary
report was written by We gave three grants to very different museums to support |
|
| 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 |
 |
|
Finding the Right Support? Summary Finding the Right Support? Plain Facts version for people with learning difficulties. A meeting of the Core Costs Club on the Compact held on 8th March 2006 |
|
| 2005 | |
| Baring Foundation Report on Activities 2005 | |
| Filling
Gaps and Making Spaces edited by Dr. John Twigg. This report brings toge Hard copies are available free of charge from |
 |
|
Small
Arts Grants 1997-2004: An Overview by Sources of Funding
for Organisational Development by Marketa Dolezel. Support for Diaspora
Organisations in London Following the Asian Tsunami by Ellie
Robinson. |
|
| 2004 | |
| Baring Foundation Report on Activities 2004 | |
| The
Grantmaking Tango: Issues for Funders by 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 Hard copies are available free of charge from |
 |
| Speaking Truth
to Power - 2004 by This paper looks back to |
 |
| 2003 | |
| Baring Foundation Report on Activities 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 on a literature review, case studies and interviews with funders. It concludes with a series of recommendations. It outlines seven stages in Hard copies are available on request for £10 each from The Association of Charitable Foundations |
|
| 2000 - 2002 | |
|
Leading the Way
to ICT Success (2002)
by Paul Ticher, Aba Maison (lasa)
and Martin Jones (AdviceNow). This report is funded by Capacity
building and its challenges:
by Dr John Twigg. A review of |
|
|
Merging Interests
(2000) by Bill Ma Health Action Zones
(2000) by Speaking Truth to Power
(2000) by
|
|
Publications by Category
|
| Strengthening the Voluntary Sector | |
| Protecting
Independence: The Voluntary Sector in 2012 The Foundation has a long standing interest in the independence of the voluntary sector. In 2011 we initiated the Panel on the Independence of the Voluntary Sector. This is a five year initiative to bring together a group of authoritative sector figures to make a regular public statement on the state of voluntary sector independence in order to stimulate reflection, debate and action. This is the panel's first statement. |
2012 |
| On
the Front Foot In 2006, the Foundation made 22 grants under its STVS – independence programme. This programme was a response to the expanding role of many voluntary agencies in delivering a range of services in partnership with the state and a concern about the impact of these changes on their independence of action. The report describes the grants that were made and reviews the results. It finds that certain types of organisational resources seemed particularly helpful, including work on improving monitoring and evaluation, negotiation skills and strategic planning. Most important, however, seems to have been the opportunity that grants gave organisations to reflect on who and what they are, their core identity and values. It was this that then moved organisations to use their new organisational resources in active and confident pursuit of their independence. |
2011
|
| The
outcomes & impact of youth advice – the evidence The Foundation has been supporting work to gather evidence of the role and value of legal advice on different parts of the population. This report, by James Kenrick from Youth Access, focuses on children and young people. The report demonstrates the critical difference that getting good advice can make to young people’s health and well-being, and highlights the contribution that advice services can make to the achievement of a range of major central and local government policy goals relating to health, education, employment, housing, poverty, crime and child protection. The report also contains important messages for local front-line advice services about good practice. For example, it identifies the service characteristics that appear to be most closely related to achieving good outcomes for young clients, including face-to-face advice provided through independent, holistic, young person-centred services. |
2011
|
| Legal
aid in welfare: the tool we cannot afford to lose The Foundation has been supporting work to gather evidence of the role and value of Legal Aid. Scope has looked at the impact of the proposed changes to Legal Aid on disabled people. The report draws on the experience of disabled people, with case studies that map out the impact that removing legal aid would have. The report makes clear that removing legal aid for welfare benefits cases will undermine the Government’s own ambitions to support more disabled people into work and deprive many of them of the very support that can make work viable. |
2011
|
| Legal Aid is a Lifeline:Women Speak Out on the Legal Aid Reforms. The Foundation has been supporting work to gather evidence of the role and value of Legal Aid. The National Federation of Women’s Institutes has produced a powerful report called Legal Aid is a Lifeline. It focuses particularly on the needs of women who have experienced domestic violence and presents the results of focus groups with WI members and a literature review of the case for funding civil cases involving victims of domestic violence. The messages are clear: access to legal aid is a vital life saving resource for women who have experienced domestic violence; and the current proposals to cut Legal Aid represent a real threat to justice and fairness. This undermines the government’s own commitment to tackle violence against women. You can watch a short film about the research - click here. |
2011
|
| Voluntary Sector Independence. This is the first publication of the new Panel on the Independence of the Voluntary Sector, which has been established by the Baring Foundation to consider the state of independence of the sector over the next five years. The Panel will be looking closely at the evidence in order to shed light on this important issue and make recommendations. This consultation document defines independence, explains why it is so important and flags up issues that have already been raised as concerns. These include the potential negative impact of government commissioning and funding arrangements, as voluntary sector bodies deliver more services, and the effect of recent cuts in government support for voluntary sector bodies. |
2011
|
| Collaborating to Advise; lessons from Avon, Coventry and Nottingham. This report, by consultant Kevin Ireland, looks at work by advice organisations in Avon, Coventry and Nottingham where the Foundation is supporting a range of organisational development through the Strengthening the Voluntary Sector grants programme. The circumstances for advice organisations are extremely challenging. Rather than retreat, the organisations discussed in this report have reached out to others to pursue their shared aims in imaginative and creative ways. There have been significant benefits in terms of improved capacity and improved relationships with the respective local authorities which, in turn, point to better services for people being supported. There have also been challenges, and the report reviews ways in which the impact of collaboration can be enhanced. |
2011
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 are available free of charge from |
2009
|
| 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 |
2009
|
| It's the System,
Stupid! Radically Rethinking Advice Advice |
2008 |
| 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. |
2008 |
| 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 Hard copies are available free of charge from |
2008
|
| STVS
- independence grants programme - a summary. This is a short
summary of |
2007 |
| STVS
- independence - submission to the Public Administration Select
Committee In March 2007 |
2007 |
|
Sources of Strength: an analysis of applications to the STVS
- independence programme by Cathy Pharoah. Click
here to read the speech given by |
2007
|
| Allies
not Servants This is |
2006
|
| Voluntary Sector - General | |
| Use it or Lose it: A summative evaluation of the Compact by Practical Wisdom R2Z. David Cutler, Director of the Baring Foundation, was a Non-Executive Director of the Commission for the Compact from 2007 until its abolition in 2011. This report was the final piece of research funded by the Commission and describes the relevance of the Compact to the voluntary sector in general and the prospects for its future. |
2011
|
| Housing
Associations in England and the Future of Voluntary Organisations
by Andrew Purkis.
This report, funded by the Baring Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree
Foundation, focuses on the timely question of what happens to
voluntary organisations if they take over mass delivery of state
services. This question has dominated voluntary sector practice
and policy in recent times. Interestingly, Housing Associations
rarely feature in the debate. Yet, this is the outstanding example
of a take-over of state services by the voluntary sector in our
times. The report reviews the territory and reflects a number
of interviews with key people in this field. It ends with a series
of challenging questions about the future for Housing Associations
and the wider voluntary sector. Hard copies are available free of charge from |
2010
|
| The
Effective Foundation: a literature review
by David Cutler. In recent years a number of authors
especially in the Hard copies are available free of charge from |
2009
|
| 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. |
2008 |
| 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. |
2008 |
| Same
Difference? Revolving Doors Agency's approach to replicating
innovation. For some time |
2007 |
| 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 Hard copies are available free of charge from |
2007
|
| Core
Costs Club meeting on Campaigning Note of a meeting of |
2006
|
| Gains
and Strains: The Voluntary Sector in the UK 1996-2006 Speech by Professor Nicholas Deakin C.B.E |
2006
|
| Exhibiting
Support...developing volunteering in museums. This summary
report was written by We gave three grants to very different museums to support |
2006 |
| A meeting of the Core Costs Club on the Compact held on 8th March 2006. |
2006
|
| Sources
of Funding for Organisational Development by Marketa Dolezel. This resource was written by a Visiting Fellow to |
2005 |
| Support
for Diaspora Organisations in London Following the Asian Tsunami
by Ellie Robinson. A small scale piece of research on |
2005 |
| The Grantmaking
Tango: Issues for Funders by 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 Hard copies are available free of charge from |
2004 |
| Speaking
Truth to Power - 2004 by This paper looks back to |
2004
|
| 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 on a literature review, case studies and interviews with funders. It concludes with a series of recommendations. It outlines seven stages in Hard copies are available on request for £10 each from The Association of Charitable Foundations |
2003 |
| 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 This report is funded by |
2002 |
| Merging
Interests (2000) by Bill Mather This book seeks to guide t |
2000 |
| Health
Action Zones (2000) by This study considers |
2000 |
| Speaking
Truth to Power (2000) by This is a discussion paper about |
2000 |
| Arts | |
| Creative
Homes: How the Arts can contribute to quality of life in residential
care. This is a joint publication
with our partners NCF (the National Care Forum - the umbrella
body for not for profit care providers) and NAPA (the National
Association for Providers of Activities for Older People). It
is intended to celebrate existing good practice in the use of
the arts with and for older people in residential care and to
inspire more and better work. Hard
copies are available free of charge from |
2011
|
| An
Evidence Review of the Impact of Participatory Arts on Older People.
This independent review by the Mental
Health Foundation was commissioned by the Baring Foundation and
is the first synthesis of the evidence base for the effects of
participating in artist-led creative projects on older people.
It is based on 24 peer reviewed studies and a further seven good
quality evaluations which have not been peer reviewed ('grey literature')
and lists more than 50 other studies. It concludes that 'it is
evident that engaging with participatory art can improve the wellbeing
of older people and mediate against the negative effects of becoming
older.' It explores these impacts in terms of mental and physical
wellbeing and the broader effects on communities and society.
Hard
copies are available free of charge from |
2011
|
| Creative Ageing Conference Perth 29th March 2011 - Speech by David Cutler to an all day event at Perth Concert Hall organised by Creative Scotland and the National Forum on Ageing. The conference launched a funding collaboration between the Baring Foundation and Creative Scotland for a national arts festival for older people. |
2011
|
| Arts and Refugees Exchange Day October 2009 - Speech by Kate Organ. Each year the Baring Foundation has invited 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. |
2009 |
| 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 Hard copies are available free of charge from |
2009
|
| Stories
Old and New and A Moving Story Between 2004 and 2009, the Baring Foundation focused its arts programme on arts organisations working with refugees and asylum seekers. In relation to this we made an exceptional grant to the |
2009 |
| 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 Hard copies are available on request for £6 each plus postage and packing from stella.barnes@ovalhouse.com |
2009 |
| 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 |
2009 |
| Arts
and Refugees; History, Impact and Future Along with two o Hard copies are available free of charge from |
2008
|
| Small
Arts Grants 1997-2004: An Overview by Over this period |
2005 |
| International Development | |
| Global grant-making As a follow up to Going Global published in 2007 (click here to download a copy of Going Global), the same foundations, Nuffield, Paul Hamlyn and ourselves, have commissioned an update on the scale and character of the contribution of independent foundations in the the UK to international development, called Global grant-making. Based on information from 2009/10 it concludes that foundations provide around £292 million in funding to civil society working on development, roughly half that from the Department for International Development. This is around 9% of the total spending of all UK foundations. Foundations fund a wide range of work and Africa attracts the largest percentage of funding at 37%. The report concludes with a series of challenges and issues for foundations working in this field. |
2012
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| A
Decade of International Development Funding The Baring Foundation has commissioned its Adviser Dr Tina Wallace to write an in-depth report on its approach to international development funding. This will be published in 2012. In advance of that we hope that this report on our approach for the last ten years will be of interest. |
2011
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| Report
of a learning event for the Joint International Development Programme
held in Entebbe, Uganda. In November 2010 the John Ellerman and Baring Foundations for the first time held a conference for our grantees in Africa. The report by Tina Wallace, adviser to the programme, describes this very successful meeting. |
2010 |
| Sitting
on Chairs: Observations on Capacity Building in Developing Countries
by Dr. John Twigg. This paper from our International Development
Adviser draws lessons from the first twelve independent evaluations
from grants that we make to |
2009
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| Report
on Conference at Wilton Park In February 2009 the Foundation part sponsored a residential conference on climate change and international development at |
2009 |
| Report
on Conference at Wilton Park ( a follow-up to The Baring Foundation and |
2008 |
| 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: |
2007
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| The
Baring and John Ellerman Foundations International Development
Programme Review 2006/2007 - Review Report by Trish Silkin. In late 2006 Trish Silkin was commissioned to review |
2007 |
| Filling
Gaps and Making Spaces edited by Dr. John Twigg. This report brings toge Hard copies are available free of charge from |
2005
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| Capacity
building and its challenges:
by Dr. John Twigg. A review of This review examines |
2001 |
| Climate Change | |
| An
Unexamined Truth by
Matthew Smerdon. The Stern Review
on the Economics of Climate Change in 2006 concluded that climate
change threatens the basic elements of life for people around
the world. We also know that the people who will be most affected
are those that are already the most vulnerable. This is a truth
that has gone largely unexamined by non-environmental voluntary
organisations working in the UK. This report by the Baring Foundation
describes a pilot project that has supported non-environmental
voluntary organisations to explore how the impacts of climate
change will affect their primary charitable purpose. The approaches
taken by the four groups of organisations that led the work will
be of interest to all those in the voluntary sector, the independent
funding community and in government that are interested in practical
ways to widen the circle of organisations involved in action on
climate change. Hard copies are available free of charge from |
2010
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| Report
on Conference at Wilton Park In February 2009 the Foundation part sponsored a residential conference on climate change and international development at |
2009 |
| 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. |
2008 |
| Report of a roundtable meeting on environmental auditing |
2008
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| Report of a roundtable meeting on the links between climate change and the charitable purposes of non-environmental organisations |
2008
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| Climate
Change - Notes of a Core Costs Club Meeting. In October 2007 our Core Costs Club met and discussed |
2007 |
| Interculturalism | |
| Interculturalism: social policy and grassroots work by Malcolm James. In 2008, for the first time, the Baring Foundation funded 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. |
2009 |
| Interculturalism:
Theory and Policy by Malcolm The Baring Foundation decided to launch a Special Initiative on Interculturality - but what is 'interculturality' anyway? To help analyse Hard copies are available free of charge from |
2008
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| Interculturalism
- notes of a Core Costs Club meeting In February 2007 our Core Costs Club met and discussed |
2007
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| Parents with Learning Difficulties | |
| 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. |
2009 |
| 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 wider awareness of this issue in |
2008 |
| 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 |
2006
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| Finding the Right Support? Summary |
2006
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| Finding the Right Support? Plain Facts version for people with learning difficulties. |
2006
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| Reports on Activities | |
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Baring
Foundation Report on Activities 2010 |
2010 |
| Baring Foundation Report on Activities 2009 |
2009
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| Baring Foundation Report on Activities 2008 |
2008
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| Baring Foundation Report on Activities 2007 |
2007
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| Baring Foundation Report on Activities 2006 |
2006
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| Baring Foundation Report on Activities 2005 |
2005
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| Baring Foundation Report on Activities 2004 |
2004
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| Baring Foundation Report on Activities 2003 |
2003
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