About this theme
This theme covers all aspects of the functioning and fabric of society, including social cohesion, community resilience and development, human rights, inclusion, participation and equality. It is one of the eight universal themes which form our grantmaking framework and allow us to address every aspect of society. Fellows’ stories
Fellows' updates April 2024 Fellows' update: Alison Holland
Through her work with Darlington Assistance for Refugees (DAR), Alison Holland (CF 2017) has developed an Orientation Programme to help young refugees and asylum seekers transition into UK schools, inspired by her Fellowship in Sweden.
By Alison Holland, 2024
Report Improving the Impact and Experiences of Volunteer Police
By Iain Britton, 2023
Blogs & conversations Travelling to Learn: Jessica's Journey
Recently, I’ve been reflecting on the time when I was drafting my application for funding from the Churchill Fellowship. I had toyed with the idea of applying for some time. I had signed up to the mailing list a few years ago and every year, when the applications opened, I would be reminded of what an amazing opportunity it sounded.
By Jessica Smith, 2024
Blogs & conversations Unlocking Rehabilitation: Learnings from high imprisonment rates
England and Wales imprisons more of its citizens than any other country in Western Europe according to a Prison Reform Trust Report. And in 2015, I became one of those imprisoned citizens.
By Jacob Hill, 2024
Blogs & conversations Supporting Families Through Care Farming
In 2020, I had a series of conversations with several health, education and social care professionals who voiced concerns that families who had not previously been considered vulnerable families, may have become so as a result of the challenges they had faced during the COVID19 lockdowns.
By Joy O'Neill, 2024
A campaigner whose first success was having a crossing installed outside a school, is now running her own organisation committed to a new, community-based approach to bringing about change at a national level. And her journey to this point – says Amanda Walters – is thanks to the Churchill Fellowship she undertook in 2019.
13 February 2024
Report Addressing Misogyny and Violence Against Women and Girls
By Nicole Devlin, 2023
News Panel event celebrates launch of Churchill Fellows’ Migration Report
We were delighted to host a panel event that brought together some of the 29 Fellows whose learnings and ideas have helped to shape and inform our new Migration report - ‘Learning from Living Well Together’ that has been developed in partnership with the Linbury Trust.
8 February 2024
It may seem strange for a Churchill Fellow to suggest that the answer to making the UK’s rural landscape more accessible to people from diverse communities isn’t to carry out more research.
1 February 2024
