CVSL Annual Conference Resource List 2023

Cost of Living Crisis – Impact on Voluntary Sector Organisations

• EU3 Digital resources:  
  • EU3Digital website  
  • Toolkit
  • Competence framework
  • Webinar
• OpenLearn  
• Lloyds Foundation 
• The value of small 
• The value of small the big crisis
• Lessons for Funder Practice
• Open Society Foundations
• Pilotlight
• Directory of Social Change
• Recently won MK Community Foundation’s tender for a project titled Determining the funding requirements of the voluntary, community and cultural sectors of the City of Milton Keynes. The project is led by Dr Fidele Mutwarasibo (CVSL) and Dr Wendy Turner (Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies)

Cost of Living Crisis – Impact on the Communities, including racialised minorities

• Racialised Minority Research Project
  • CVSL Hosts Milton Keynes’ BME Leaders and Service Providers Roundtable
  • CVSL Secures a Knowledge Exchange Grant
  • CVSL research to explore how to increase the pool of leaders from BME communities that collaborate with local service providers
  • Funding to explore the development needs of BME leaders
• Black Leadership and Empowerment programme
  • New access course BXM192 Making your Learning Count at Work and two OpenLearn courses (Black Leadership and Building Up your Power and Influence) to go live in the 2023/2024 academic year
  • Webinar 22nd June 2023 - Taking Racial Equity Seriously – Case for Systemic Approach to Addressing Racial Inequalities Exposed by the Covid-19 Pandemic and the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests’ calls for Racial Equity 
• Turn2us

Cost of living crisis – impact on volunteering

• Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations  
• Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
• OpenLearn Create: Involving Volunteers

Other resources

• CVSL website
• The Distinctiveness of Smaller Voluntary Organisations Providing Welfare Services - Open Research Online