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Impact of cuts on violence against women services
A new report by Professor Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair in Gender Research at Lancaster University highlights some worrying trends about the impact of public sector cuts on services to prevent violence against women and girls. Freedom of information requests released in the report reveal that 31% of funding to the sector was cut by local authorities between 2010/11 and 2011/12. The report, jointly commissioned by the Trust and Northern Rock Foundation, highlights that the smallest organisations (with local authority funding of less than £20,000) have been hit hardest, with an average cut of 70%, compared with 29% for those receiving more than £100,000.
Lynne Featherstone, Minister for Equality and Yvette Cooper, Shadow Home Secretary responded to the report in an article in the The Guardian. Read more.
London Advice Watch reveals strong support for free advice
The vast majority of Londoners (88%) believe that legal advice should be free for everyone earning on or below the national median income of £25,000, according to London Advice Watch a new report from Legal Action Group (LAG) and Trust for London. However, 77,000 Londoners will lose access to legal advice and £9.33 million will be cut from advice services, if the reductions in legal aid proposed by the government go ahead. The report shows that this is a false economy as the lack of advice will cost the government £55 million in other expenditure.
London Advice Watch publishes the results from an opinion poll survey of 1,603 Londoners, carried out by independent polling company GfK NOP for LAG and Trust for London, to explore Londoner's attitudes towards and experiences of legal advice services. Read more.
‘Zero tolerance’ is failing to stop racism amongst young people
Findings from an independent evaluation by the Runnymede Trust of our special initiative to prevent racist violence found that significant numbers of young people hold racist views and are at risk of engaging in racist violence. The report challenges the limited approach of 'zero tolerance' as a response to racism, as this fails to address the underlying causes. However, prevention work can have a real impact on young people’s behaviour and attitudes. The report advocates a more proactive response, one which draws out the problem by providing 'safe spaces' to discuss and challenge these issues. We funded Working with Men, Leap Confronting Conflict and Searchlight Educational Trust to develop a variety of innovative approaches in Barking & Dagenham, Bexley and Greenwich. Read more.
British Future – new identity, integration, migration and opportunity think tank launches
British Future is a new independent organisation seeking to involve people in an open conversation, which addresses people’s hopes and fears about identity and integration, migration and opportunity, so that we feel confident about Britain’s future. Established with the support of five funders including Trust for London, we are investing in British Future to help it inform and contribute to a more informed and balanced debate on issues of migration.
The launch event at the Museum of Docklands included a panel discussion discussing the findings of a new opinion poll by Ipsos-Mori for British Future's first report - Hopes and Fears: The British Future State of the Nation Report 2012 which featured in the Observer. Panelists included journalist Matthew d'Ancona, James Forsyth (Political Editor of The Spectator) and the Director of British Future Sunder Katwala.
Progress in tackling Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
The interim evaluation report of our joint initiative with Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Rosa, the UK Fund for Women and Girls shows good progress has been made in tackling FGM within affected communities. Groups funded have been particularly successful in building relationships with faith leaders to highlight that FGM is neither necessary nor desirable according to religious principles. Increasingly women, men and young people are gaining confidence to speak out against this practice. However, there are still many challenges in achieving the goal of eliminating this practice, not least the lack of a prosecution on FGM in the UK. Read more
London Living Wage - meeting for funders
In partnership with London Citizens we are inviting funders to a meeting to learn more about the London Living Wage. The event will provide an opportunity to hear about the campaign and what it has achieved and how funders can become involved in this work, including how they can become living wage employers. The event is on 10 February (10.30am to 12.30pm) at our offices. To attend please contact Austin Taylor-Laybourn (020 7606 6145).
Free events space
We are offering voluntary and community organisations the chance to put on an event at Resource for London by offering the space for free. Resource for London has been newly refurbished and the meeting/conference space can accommodate up to 250 people. We are offering free space for four events in 2012 that support our mission of tackling poverty and inequality in London. The closing date for outline proposals is 5 March. Read more.
New research on remittances
Migrants provide extensive help to communities in their countries of origin through regularly sending back money, and remittances constitute important aid for low-income countries. Yet UK surveys of giving fail to include questions on remitting, with the result that very little is known about this. Moreover, there is a lack of evidence to support tax policy towards remitting and a streamlining of the administrative process to make transactions easier and cheaper. Trust for London has funded the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP) at Cass Business School to explore these issues. The researchers would welcome information on any work or reports that organisations might have done in relation to remitting. Read more.
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