Laura Price

Thriving Plymouth event

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Evaluating year 1 of the Participatory Grant Making Fund.

Last week Plymouth welcomed over 100 guests to a celebratory event hosted by Real Ideas at the Devonport Market Hall. It was a fantastic opportunity for our Chair, Joey Newton to present certificates to the ten participants who recently completed the School for Social Entrepreneurs’ Match Trading programme – the third cohort in Plymouth to do so, which means there are now 30 SSE fellows who are part of the local Plymouth Rank Network.

The occasion also marked the end of the first year of the enormously successful thirteen projects supported by Rank’s Participatory Grant Making fund.

This brochure gives a flavour of the projects’ achievements as they address and combat loneliness and social isolation in the city.

Finally, the event was an opportunity to celebrate supporting the next round of Participatory Grant Making projects with Livewell’s CEO explaining to the audience why they had committed £500,000 to match fund the loneliness and social isolation projects.

It was great to see the commitment and the energy in the room – it was a really inspiring afternoon.

Welcome to our Coworking space in London

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We are delighted to be able to give you a sneak peak tour around our brand new coworking space at Garden Walk, our centrally-located office premises in London’s Shoreditch.

The Rank Foundation’s Coworking Space in London has been designed for the social sector to work, collaborate and network in style. Whether you want a permanent workspace, occasional desk space or to hire a meeting room we’ve got a hiring option for you and your team.

We are now taking bookings for in-person tours of the coworking space. If you are interested in seeing it for yourself, contact our Assistant Director Sonia Talsi via this form.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR COWORKING SPACE

Addressing food insecurity in Dundee – Webinar

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We are pleased to share a recording of a webinar that took place in December which addressed an innovative story of how a place-based collaboration between community groups, funders and local authorities sprung to action during a time of greatest need, providing a platform for tackling the emerging cost of living crisis. Food insecurity is becoming an acute issue with the cost-of-living crisis following shortly after the Covid pandemic.

The webinar was hosted by Emily Sun of Place Matters (a beneficiary and partner of Rank Foundation) and featured Jacky Close (Director of Faith in Community Dundee) and David Dorward (Associate Director Rank Foundation in Dundee and Chair & Founder Dundee Bairns) telling the story of how they were able to bring together community organisations, funders and the local authority to quickly respond to the community’s food needs during Covid, and how they then built a longer-term food security strategy that puts dignity and collaboration at the centre.