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05/03/2026

Wow 😲🤩🤩🫶
I just spent the morning at in Halifax talking with a group of young women from Calder High School. Thank you so much to the young women and their teacher, the brilliant other speakers, and the staggeringly good EdShift team. What a lovely lovely organisation. I wish they had been around when I was young 💐💐

03/03/2026

is now open for applications! 📣

We’ve refreshed our funding programme with the help of children and young people across Scotland, making sure their voices, ideas, and experiences are at the heart of this funding.

Organisations can now apply to our:

⭐. Main grants programme – (£20k–£150k) for projects already involving children and young people.

⭐. Brand-new Small Grants programme – (£300–£20k) for organisations wanting to learn how to meaningfully involve children and young people in their work.

Apply today and help create new opportunities for children and young people. Link in the comments.

📸. African Lanarkshire for Mental Health

24/02/2026

✨ Calling Inspiring Women Speakers! ✨

This 5th March, we’re celebrating International Women’s Day at EdShift, and we’re looking for passionate women to join us as guest speakers.

We’ll be welcoming 15 brilliant young school girls from Calder High, and we want to create an unforgettable experience that inspires confidence, ambition, and big dreams.

If you’re a woman with a story, career journey, or life experience that could motivate the next generation, we’d love to hear from you.

💬 The event will include:

- Inspiring talks

- Meaningful networking

- Lovely conversation

- A chance to shape young futures

🌟 Today’s Trailblazers, Tomorrow’s Leaders 🌟

Let’s show these young women what’s possible.

If you’re interested in speaking or would like more details, please message us directly, email us at [email protected] or comment below.

23/02/2026

You may not know this but Moving for Change is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and it's 30 years today since the first The National Lottery prize draw.

So here's a thank you to the National Lottery and its players, and a fingers crossed to all the good causes it has helped.

18/02/2026

If you are in or near Todmorden and need a kitchen workspace you should definitely check out the beautiful, brilliantly equipped kitchens in Tod College!

Want to run a cooking class? Maybe even a competition?! You're in luck!

Our crackin' new Cookery is ready! However you want to use our Cookery, you can do it in style with our brand new, top of the line equipment.

Our Cookery/Sourhall costs £30-40/hour to book the whole room or £10/hour for a single station. Vegetarian/Vegan only fridges are available. Happy Cooking!

18/02/2026

Asking for money is always difficult. Seeking sponsorship for your important events, whether from businesses or from individuals can be very daunting. Where Trusts and Foundations usually have a website and generally give you a form to fill in. Potential sponsors don't advertise that they may be prepared to help. But they often are! So we've written some guidance to take the anxiety out of the process. It's free, check it out. You can do it!

If you’ve ever thought “I’d love to run a conference, but where would we get the money?” — this post is for you. We’ve just released a new free guidance document calle…

18/02/2026

Community Development Worker Bradford vacancy❗17.5 hours

As a community development worker you will play a key role in our organisation, building strong relationships with our communities. You will deliver outreach including activities, information and support.

More info - https://leedsgate.co.uk/about/job-vacancies/community-development-worker-vacancy-bradford/

16/02/2026

Just taking a moment to celebrate the success of our Tea Tales friend Elle Shuttelton!

From degree to Master’s success! 🎓

See how our BSc (Hons) Clinical Herbalism graduate, Elle, has gone on to achieve an MSc in Clinical Neurology from University of Sheffield.

Elle’s journey is a powerful example of how students at Lincoln College University Centre can progress into clinical practice, postgraduate study, or both. Well done, Elle! 👏

👉 Read her story: https://bit.ly/4bJoRDS

📅 Thinking about your next step? Apply for September 2026 courses now! https://bit.ly/3Mtbzky

10/02/2026

Require local authorities to prioritise placement of Gypsy and Traveller children with Gypsy and Traveller foster carers where safe and appropriate, and by provide better cultural awareness training for social workers.

04/02/2026

Some really interesting conversations over on Linkedin about ai and funding applications. It prompted me to respond with this comment which I've put below. 📢📢🤔 Call me if you want to talk about ai in your work. I'm especially happy to talk about how to put a good prompt into the ai machinery.

I wrote this blog post with the help of Claude. I fed in my whole website - the about, policies and services pages, values, mission purpose etc, all of which I wrote myself - I told it what I wanted to achieve in the message, what I could offer, and I prompted its help to engage with my clients about SORP obligations, a topic which might well cause the heebeegeebees and avoidance. I wonder if a lot of people don't realise how much they can cut and paste into the ai prompt?
I've had great feedback and engagement with this posting and it took me about two hours (inc the picture) instead of probably ten hours it would have taken before ai. I've gone back to it with minor edits twice so far.
https://antworkscommunity.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/finding-the-joy-in-impact-why-the-new-sorp-requirements-could-be-your-best-news-yet/
BTW; When I use ai as part of my work with clients I've got an ai policy which I share and I anonymise all the client info before I use it to create a prompt. That feels like good housekeeping to me. Anyone else got any tips to share? Maybe we could get an online or face to face chat to happen?

From January 1, 2026, something important shifts in the charity world. The updated Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) now mandates impact reporting as a “must” for all c…

04/02/2026

Yesterday we posted about why we think impact monitoring and reporting should be joyous. Did you see it? (or did the acronym SORP put you off?)
"Impact" is just a fancy way of saying 'the change we made happen'. To explain and report on how you think your organisation has made change happen for the people you serve, it can be really helpful to put together a Story (or Theory) of Change.
Today's post is all about how you can create your charities' Story of Change really simply, check it out!

Argh, what are you on about?! You know that feeling when someone at a networking event starts talking about your “Theory of Change?” and your brain freezes? You might think it’s s…