Barrow Cadbury Trust survey
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About you
Do you work in any of the Trust’s main programme areas?
Please select...
Migration
Criminal Justice
Economic Justice
Prefer not to say
What type of work do you do? Please tick all that apply
Service delivery for communities (charity)
Service delivery for communities (public sector)
Research
Campaigning and organising
Community development
Policy development and advocacy
Voluntary sector infrastructure and capacity-building
Funding / philanthropy
Public sector policy-making
Private sector
Other
Please specify:
What is the geographical scope of your work? Tick all that apply.
International
National
Regional
Local
Regional
Please select...
North East England
North West England
Yorkshire and The Humber
East Midlands
West Midlands
East of England
Greater London
South East
South West
Scotland
Wales
Local
Please select...
Birmingham
West Midlands
Other
Please specify:
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External context
1. How has the social, political, and economic environment changed for your field of work since 2022 and what has that meant for your organisation?
2. What does that change in environment mean for funders like BCT and the programmes we run?
3. What would ‘bold’ funding look like to you in this moment?
4. In your field, what types of activity do you feel need more support from funders?
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Views about the Trust
5. What three words or phrases come to mind when you think of Barrow Cadbury Trust?
6. What, if anything, is different about how the Trust works from other funders you know?
7 a. What would you say are the
strengths
of the Trust’s current approach to funding and working in partnership with funded partners?
7 b. What would you say are the
weaknesses
of the Trust’s current approach to funding and working in partnership with funded partners?
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External voice
In addition to offering funding, we want to use our wider resources including our people, networks, and reputation, to help influence change.
8. Would it be helpful for the Trust to speak out more publicly about important issues relevant to our mission?
Please select...
Yes
No
Not sure
IF YES – Please explain your answer
IF NO/NOT SURE – Please explain your answer
9. Could the Trust do more to help our funded partners and wider collaborators to have their voices heard?
Please select...
YES
NO
NOT SURE
IF YES – Please explain your answer
IF NO/NOT SURE – Please explain your answer
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Capacity-building for funded partners
In addition to providing grant-funding, the Trust aims to provide 'funder-plus' support to ensure that our funded partners are able to build their organisations in the longer-term and achieve their outcomes.
10.
Which of the following (if any) types of support have you received from the Trust while in receipt of a grant. Please tick all that apply:
Please tick all that apply
Wellbeing support or safety/security funding
Funding for training, additional capacity or support
Advice and professional support (including legal or governance advice), including during crisis/challenges
Learning opportunities
Brokering links to other partners/opportunities
Connecting partners to different audiences and platforms
Other
None
Please specify:
11. Which of the following would be of most benefit to your organisation in the near future? Please choose up to five areas (there is space to indicate other types of support not listed)?
Business development & strategy
Evaluation and learning
Governance
Income generation & fundraising
IT infrastructure (e.g. operating systems, data management, web & social media)
Financial management
Campaigning and influencing support
Public relations and media support
Diversity, equity and inclusion/anti-oppressive practice
Lived experience leadership development
Embedding lived experience into your organisation’s structures and operations
Mental health and wellbeing for staff and volunteers
Support or mentoring from peer organisations
Access to meeting space
Support to build connections with changemakers and organisations working on similar issues to you
Sector-led convening on topics of interest to the sector or specific areas of the UK
Other
Please specify:
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Equality and engaging those with 'lived experience' of inequality and injustice
The Trust has sought to embed cross-cutting themes of racial and gender justice and engaging those with lived experience of inequality and injustice into its programmes and we are keen to do more.
12. How can the Trust best ensure it is applying a gender and racial justice lens in its work? If you have knowledge of the Trust’s existing work, please indicate areas we could improve and how.
13. How can the Trust best ensure it is investing in and promoting lived experience leadership and creating the conditions for lived experience leaders to emerge and thrive in the sector? If you have knowledge of the Trust’s existing work, please indicate areas we could improve and how.
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Accountability, feedback and learning
The power dynamics between funder / grant-holder can make it hard (at times) to get good quality, critical feedback on how funders operate and their future direction. We want to ensure the flow of communication and feedback between the Trust and our funded partners and those closest to the issues we seek to address is as good as it can be.
14. How can the Trust best ensure it remains accountable and responsive to those it supports and serves?
We'd like to undertake more learning activities in collaboration with funded partners and the wider sector (e.g. speaking more regularly about the state of the sector, hurdles to impact and where the Trust could be supporting sector efforts in areas close to our mission).
15. Would you be interested in getting involved in shared learning opportunities with the Trust?
Please select...
YES
NO
If YES - What would help you to engage in this type of activity with us (e.g. resources or how we behave as a funder)?
16. Are there any additional comments you’d like to make that could support the Trust in developing its new strategy?
Any additional comments:
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