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NEWS: Leading charity CEOs set out their vision for how government, businesses & charities can work together to tackle society's biggest challenges. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eGkWrDcb #ForcesForGood #CharityReformGroup

Trust, expertise, innovation - charity leaders outline why the sector is uniquely placed to help solve society's biggest challenges. New essay collection available now: https://lnkd.in/e98nFwUz #ForcesForGood #CharityReformGroup

Leading charity CEOs set out their vision for how government, businesses & charities can work together to tackle society's biggest challenges. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eGkWrDcb #ForcesForGood #CharityReformGroup

We hope you'll take some time this weekend to think about a campaign or change-maker that deserves to be celebrated at the SMK National Campaigner Awards 2025. Find out about the 10 amazing categories & nominate here: https://ow.ly/PV7z50Ui3jr Deadline 31 Jan 2025 #SMKAwards2025

Angela McConville: From frontline expertise to innovative solutions - NCT Charity CEO shows how charities are ready to help build a better future. Read Angela’s essay in the #CharityReformGroup #ForcesForGood report here: https://lnkd.in/eGfSGwvN Full report and essay collection here: https://lnkd.in/eGkWrDcb

Listen here 🎧 to Chris Sherwood CEO RSPCA on Third Sector podcast talking about #CharityReformGroup's report #ForcesforGood calling for a louder charity voice in national debates & much more. Listen: http://bit.ly/4fRrkeKPlus Report & essays here: https://lnkd.in/e98nFwUz

Harriet Oppenheimer: How can freedom from profit motives and political constraints help charities tackle complex challenges in ways others can't? CEO of RNID explains in her #CharityReformGroup #ForcesForGood essay here: https://lnkd.in/er-Y36D6 Read the full report Forces for Good and essay collection here: https://lnkd.in/eGkWrDcb

Leaders from some of Britain's most respected charities have come together to share an ambitious vision for change. The essays, written by members of the Charity Reform Group, make a compelling case for reimagining how charities could work with government and businesses to address society's most pressing challenges. Their message challenges current perceptions of charities as simply service providers. Instead, they demonstrate how charities are uniquely positioned, as trusted partners and agents of transformational change, to bring deep expertise, community connections, and evidence-based solutions to the table. Yet this potential is often constrained by misconceptions and external limitations. These essays show what could be achieved if we removed these barriers and built new partnerships across sectors based on a fresh understanding of what charities do and the value they generate. The timing couldn't be more crucial. As we face unprecedented social challenges, from the cost-of-living crisis to climate change, we need every sector working to its full potential. This collection offers a practical roadmap for how government, businesses, and charities can work together more effectively. It's an invitation to all sectors to build better understanding, forge more meaningful partnerships, and collaborate on solutions that could transform our society. Read the full collection: https://lnkd.in/eGkWrDcb #ForcesForGood #CharityReformGroup

We're more than just service providers - we're agents of transformation. Read how in this new collection from charity leaders: https://lnkd.in/eGkWrDcb #ForcesForGood #CharityReformGroup

Great to be at the launch of the #Charity Reform Group event yesterday organised by the Shelia McKechnie Foundation. As a young lawyer it was a privilege to meet and work with Shelia McKechnie when she was the CEO of Shelter, quite some time ago now. The essays are really inspiring and thought provoking including: ➡️Benaifer Bhandari, CEO of @Hopscotch Women’s Centre, comment in her essay that: ‘We are the fourth emergency service’. ➡️Mark Russell 🇺🇦’s outline of The Children's Society brilliant win on reducing costs of school uniforms. ➡️ Susan Daniels, CEO of National Deaf Children's Society comment that: ‘We need to be simultaneously ally and antagonist; collaborator and thorn in the side; cheerleader and critic’ And much more. Do read these fab essays. #charities #reform # collaboration # campaigning # commissioning