Felicia Willow

Can you help? Are you a heritage sector organisation? Do you have a good story to tell about how you recruit, retain and support your trustees? Then we are looking for you…   Historic England recently published this report on the Barriers and Enablers to Board Diversity in the Heritage sector https://lnkd.in/e4CPWtZ7 One of the recommendations is to develop some case studies on Board diversity. I am thrilled to report Getting On Board have now been commissioned to produce case-studies that exemplify good practice in the sector.     We are now looking for Heritage organisations that are willing to be interviewed for a written casestudy. So have you got a story to tell about:   Recruiting trustees: 🎯 Good practice in recruiting board members 🎯How you have reached out to, listened to and recruited more diverse board members 🎯How you have gone about developing inclusive board recruitment marketing and promotional materials 🎯The benefits you offer Board members and how these are communicated to potential board members 🎯What is good heritage Board practice in terms of process around term length and succession planning      Retaining trustees: 🎯How you retain board members 🎯How you onboard board members 🎯 Setting up a shadow board, shadowing programme or trainee board member placements   Supporting Inclusion, diversity and equity 🎯How you embed Inclusion, diversity and equity as a priority without putting unfair workload or emotional labour on specific Board members? 🎯 How you have made realistic commitment to Board diversity and communicated these internally and externally 🎯How you have conducted a Board diversity audit and communicated your findings in an effective and GDPR compliant way 🎯 How you have developed communication on IDE as a Board, in terms of language and content 🎯How you have effected culture change in your organisation so a diverse Board is welcome and effective   Providing on-going Board training and support 🎯 How you have supported your Board members through tough times of challenge and change 🎯 How you have dealt with trolling and negative press as a heritage Board and individual Board member 🎯How you have reported specific issues of online harassment, racism, homophobia, and other hate speech   Supporting your workforce to get governance experience. 🎯How you have made it possible for your staff to sit on Boards of other organisations, and what benefits this brings you? Clearly these topics will over-lap – but if any of the above resonates with you please get in touch or if you know of a heritage sector organisation that you think has a good story to tell please tag them in the comments!   #trustees #governance #heritagesector #inclusion #diversity #equity

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'The launch of the Centre for Young Lives #RaisingTheNation Play Commission' - Paul Lindley OBE ⤵️ We launch our Commission in the middle of an election campaign and with huge political decisions ahead, first for voters and then for a new Parliament. As those decisions are made, the future of our children must be at the centre of the debate. Politicians should ask how our children can thrive: how they can feel significant, be confident, have life affirming childhoods and become the people that they each have the potential to be. Because thriving childhoods reflect thriving societies, and as play is central to thriving childhoods, it should be central to political decision-making. The way children explore, experiment and build an understanding of the world really matters. That is why, we have created the Raising the Nation Play Commission: to stimulate a conversation, gather evidence, demand barriers to play are broken down and to offer a framework for government to create an environment, facilities, time and a culture for children to do their work – and play. We will deliver our findings, and a plan for the Government to consider, on 11 June 2025 – the second International Day of Play.  As we begin our journey, we invite your contributions, ideas, energy and support! #Play #FreePlay #PlaySufficiency #PhysicalActivity #PhysicalLiteracy #Recreation #ActiveTravel #PlayStreet #StreetPlay #HomeZones #Playces #Splace #FreerangeUrbanNeighbourhoods #FUN #KnowBallGames #Parks #Playgrounds #UNCRC #Article31

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Grant funding for the women’s sector 👏👏👏 Funding available from @smallwood trust for organisations delivering frontline services that are led by, for and/or serving women with an income of £1,000,000 or less. Grants will enable organisations to respond to the spike in demand of priority basic needs from women who are most at risk of poverty, because of the cost-of-living-crisis. Funds are available to be spent over three years, helping organisations to both respond to the immediate cost-of-living crisis and strengthen their organisation. https://lnkd.in/eZYrJNVa

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Some very interesting (and challenging) options here. Should there be a reference to building more homes too? Many tenants live in overcrowded homes and the lack of more affordable housing affects them as much as those on housing waiting lists.

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Accountability represents many people’s solution to the crisis in service delivery, corruption and general lack of responsibility in public service. Accountability is also key to success in business. We have to help create intrinsic accountability. Read this article by Jonathan Cook, Chairman of Thornhill, explaining that accountability needs both external consequences and intrinsic values https://lnkd.in/dFvbEp4E. #Accountability #LeadershipDevelopment #Values #Vote #OwnOurLand

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In politics, we talk mainly about the ‘what’ of policy - spending commitments, new policy announcements, and so on. But a lot of our biggest societal challenges come down to an outdated ‘how’ of government - ways of governing that are risky, fragile, short-term, inhuman, or bad at using technology. I've written an essay for Renewal that explores what a new 'how' could look like - how we could govern well in the twenty-first century. I've tried to get beyond vague critiques of the old 'how' to be specific, describing the constituent elements of a new approach - its main methods, operating models, and institutions. I'd be interested in feedback/critiques. Plus the lovely folk at Renewal have lifted the paywall for the article, so you can dive in. (If you enjoy it please consider a subscription!) Here's the essay: https://t.co/0QJ0leaiGR And here's a tweet thread (which I promise is slightly shorter than the actual essay): https://lnkd.in/eJVM4XgA

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Out today - just ahead of the dissolution of the House of Commons - a blueprint for examining Government progress in a new Parliament from the Liaison Committee. • If the King’s Speech sets out a government’s programme of legislation and the annual Budget is about spending plans - why wouldn’t ministers tell us their ambitions for government? The report proposes an annual statement to Parliament setting out their ministerial priorities and the right for MPs to question them about it. • Fairness between generations demands action from government and Parliament. Long-term strategy needs to engage public imagination and consent, especially among younger generations. Why plan for long-term challenges like housing or social care without their input? • We need to do strategy better. Teach ministers, MPs, civil servants (not just the top people) how to scan for challenges; deliver and implement strategic planning. It’s essential.

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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐅𝐏10? 📣 NEW EPISODE - THE GRANT PODCAST: #116 FP10 - Status on the next Framework Programme❗ The preparations for the framework programme – labelled FP10 - is slowly gaining speed. Governments and interest organisations are releasing their formal statements – positions papers - on in which direction they would like to see the next programme move. It is a big positioning game and all statements are received and read carefully by everybody who has a keen interest in what shape the next R&D funding scheme will take. Of course The Grant is at your service to give you all a status on what on earth is going on and to give an overview of the whole process. I invited one of the most informed into the virtual podcast studio to give us all an update. Thomas Brent, at the time of recording this episode Science Journalist at Science|Business, runs through the process of how a framework programme comes to life and where we stand at this moment. This should be highly interesting for many of you out there! ❗Key take-aways 👉 It is a long long process 👉 With a lot of stakeholders input to be taken into account 👉 And when everything is ready the overall EU budget negotiations can again change the setup 👉 Voices are pushing for ringfencing parts of the budget to avoid effects of political flip-flopping ❗ Direct link to episode:  https://lnkd.in/dRTiMHzZ ❗ Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and check out The Grant universe: www.thegrant.eu/116 #FP10 #funding Marie Latour Kristjan Zemljic Auvertin (Bagdoniene) Sigita Filippo Gagliardi Rita Gil Mata, PhD. Georg Melzer-Venturi Agnes Zoller, PhD Yoram Bar-Zeev Svetlana Myagkova Daiana Huber Christina Achilleos Maria Daniela Angione Alessia Melasecche Germini Esen Kunt Dieter Brigitta Ewa Kocinska-Lange Ilaria Rudisi Merete Mikkelsen Jeanett Bolther Katarzyna Kowalska Coline Perrin Virág Zsár Prakriti Archambeau Isabel Burdallo, PhD Michael Browne Borana Taraj Nik Claesen Amy Murphy Florin Zubascu Sofia Fernandes EuroCenter DK NCP Wallonie National Contact Points (NCPs) Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, FECYT NCP Brussels your contact for Horizon Europe European Commission EU Science, Research and Innovation Evolution | Innovation Forward

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*Lead the Change – Wales Bystander Training* ​Kindling Interventions​ describe bystander intervention as ‘a critical component in creating a more equal world… We can spark change in these systems by changing the ways we relate to each other today - by changing the behaviours and talk we celebrate, and what we refuse to let pass.’ ‘Changing the behaviours and talk we celebrate, and what we refuse to let pass’ particularly resonated with me. All too often, I have witnessed and experienced firsthand the silence which falls upon individuals and groups of people in situations where they should be anything but quiet. In situations where a simple word, phrase or just not laughing along would be enough to indicate that any harmful comments are not representative of the opinion of the whole group and, instead, are disapproved upon. Often these harmful behaviours are left unacknowledged, creating an impression of a universal, silent acceptance. There are many reasons why we might not intervene. It might be that we don’t know how to safely intervene, or we’re in a scenario with our peers and hate the thought of going against the status quo. Or that you feel unsafe and fear that your intervention might have adverse consequences. Not intervening can have short- and long-term consequences. It is because of these adverse impacts that I was so excited when I was successful in my application to be a freelance trainer on the ‘Lead the Change – Wales Bystander Training’. The training, developed by Kindling Transformative Interventions, provides practical ways to safely intervene, using a 4-pronged approach. I can’t wait to get started with delivering the sessions. My hope is that we will start to experience meaningful societal change, where harmful behaviours no longer flourish through group compliance. 

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Today, I stepped forward with members of the Crossbench and Opposition to signal our intention to move censure motions against the Minister for Child Protection, Katrine Hildyard MP. This isn’t something to be taken lightly — censure motions are rare but justified in times where total confidence has been lost in a Minister’s ability to handle the requirements of their portfolio. The Minister has had 826 days to demonstrate her suitability to the role, and ability to multi-task. Despite promising to introduce legislation ensuring our state’s heroic carers and foster carers have the right to procedural fairness back in 2022, it’s been radio silence since then. A report written on this very legislation has been sitting on her desk since February 2023 and still, no action.How many more children need to be impacted by a crisis-ridden Department for Child Protection before the Minister decides to take one of the most important portfolios in all of government seriously? The Child Protection portfolio deserves undivided attention. Vulnerable children deserve undivided attention. The Minister has shown it’s impossible to give 100% to three different portfolios. We need an undistracted Child Protection Minister, which is why Katrine Hildyard needs to stand up or step aside.

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More than anything, what the 2024 General Election in the UK told us was that our electoral system is not fit for purpose. The Labour Party, with 33.7% of votes, achieved 63.4% of seats. Reform UK, despite getting more votes than the Liberal Democrats, gained less than a tenth of the seats of the latter! The Daily Telegraph reported that, "The election result is the most distorted in history after Labour won nearly two thirds of seats with just a third of the popular vote." Of course, the reality of the election is that the splitting of The Conservative Party vote due to the rise of Reform UK, along with the demise of the Scottish National Party (SNP) is, under #FirstPastThePost, why we have this misrepresentative result. There is little expectation that there will be a change in our election system during the next parliament but we can hope that, at some point, sense will prevail and the #SingleTransferableVote will be implemented. https://lnkd.in/eeAbv5MX Electoral Reform Society

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‘Children facing a ‘brutal’ loss of time and space for play at state schools’ - The Guardian Shorter playtimes and shrinking outside space in England have serious implications for children’s wellbeing and mental health. New research from the UCL Institute of Education showed a continued downward trend in the amount of time children have for playtime in the wake of the Covid lockdowns, with the youngest losing the most time. The demands of the curriculum have increased, and continue to diminish time outside, while staffing shortages are reducing capacity to oversee playtime. Schools face difficult financial decisions, which are having an impact on the funding to care for grounds. Headteachers in the state sector have said they are in desperate need of funding to improve basic facilities for children. School buildings are crumbling, as many were built with RAAC that was not replaced within its usable lifetime, meaning in some cases playgrounds are being used to host temporary classrooms. This is squeezing out the little space some schools have for children to spend time outside. Damien Jordan, Headteacher said “The curriculum means that from six or seven years old play is gone . . . it’s brutal, children aren’t ready. The classrooms change from a free-flow space to what is more like an office.” Dr Jackie Applebee, a GP said ”Severe cuts to council budgets mean that local councils often don’t prioritise outdoor play spaces and cuts to the education budgets mean that schools, who are heavily inspected and penalised, inevitably prioritise the classroom over the playground.” Dr Helen Dodd said what she saw in schools was part of a worrying wider picture. “Children are losing space and time to play everywhere.” This👆🏼is why Play England are calling on the next Government to introduce #PlaySufficiency legislation in England, which would establish statutory guidance for local authorities to provide and secure sufficient play opportunities ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/eKtJWuBg 🏫🚸🌿🍁🍂🪵 🚲 🛴 🛹🛼 🛝 🏃🏼‍♂️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏾👩‍🦽🚴🏿🚏🚶🏻🤸🏾‍♂️🤸🏼‍♂️🌳🏘️ #PlaySufficiency #FreePlay #Play #PhysicalLiteracy #PhysicalActivity #ActiveTravel #PlayStreet #SchoolStreets #StreetPlay #HomeZones #UNCRC #FreerangeUrbanNeighbourhoods #FUN #KnowBallGames #Parks #Playgrounds #PublicRealm #RaisingTheNation

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NWG The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) – What? Why? Where? How? 24th June The course will explain what the NRM is including what happens when a child becomes an adult and submitting additional information, how the NRM benefits children... https://lnkd.in/eTENzejh

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NWG The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) – What? Why? Where? How? 24th June The course will explain what the NRM is including what happens when a child becomes an adult and submitting additional information, how the NRM benefits children... https://lnkd.in/eTENzejh

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NWG The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) – What? Why? Where? How? 24th June The course will explain what the NRM is including what happens when a child becomes an adult and submitting additional information, how the NRM benefits children... https://lnkd.in/eTENzejh

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