Just under 3 weeks to get your applications in for the Data Support Lead! Apply/ please pass on to others!

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🆕 Ellen Smyth caught up with Yapp Charitable Trust's Joanne Anderson, to find out why she’s so proud of the relational approach the Trust takes. Joanne also reflects on the way in which anonymous #grantee reviews can help strengthen peers' #funding #applications 👉 buff.ly/3UOBCUB

Excellent trustee opportunities here to join the CAST Board. Please do spread the word and as a current trustee of this excellent organisation I’d be happy to chat or connect you with our interim Chair if anyone wants to find out more 👇👇👇

Excellent - will follow with interest, really important work. Hope you can build on/collaborate with partners in nominet.uk/social-impact/ too?

📢 We're looking for a Director of Research! Do you, or anyone you know, have the skills to lead and develop our research team? This is an exciting opportunity to oversee and shape a portfolio of research projects. 🔗 More info and how to apply: buff.ly/3UW3jLc

🆕 Joffe Charitable Trust has received 145+ grantseeker reviews on #GrantAdvisorUK. We caught up with Grants Manager George Pope to hear how anonymous #grantseeker feedback helps the team find ways to continuously improve their approach to #grantmaking 👉 buff.ly/3UXp3qg

🆕 As the Community Explore programme - part of @peoplesbiz & Careful Trouble's Discovery Fund - wraps up, Joyce Borgs takes a look back at the past six months, sharing participant feedback, as well as links to useful resources and Playback presentations 👇buff.ly/3QMJljO

In CAST and the #FixtheForm Movement's joint session on what grantee feedback tells us about the current state of funding practices, a discrepancy between staff and trustees was discussed – with staff keen to change application and reporting forms whilst trustees

I am really troubled by the proposal from the Tony Blair Institute for a "National Data Trust" (NDT) for health data, particularly by the idea that the next government might actually go for it. institute.global/insights/polit…

After 7 years, I’ve finally left NCVO. It’s been quite a ride - 3 CEOs, 4 different roles, from fully office-based to a hybrid org, through a pandemic, into turbulent times, & out the other side. I leave feeling enormously proud of what we’ve been able to achieve together.

Great to see this work from ACEVO and NCVO on the Voluntary Sector Manifesto which has launched today in the lead up to the #GeneralElection 👇👇👇

The Public Voices in AI Fund offers up to £50k for proposals led by orgs in Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise sector (VCSE). digitalgood.net/the-public-voi… The Alan Turing Institute Ada Lovelace Institute UCL Responsible Ai UK #digitalgood #VSCE #voluntarysector #communitygroups #socialenterprise

Add 11 July to your calendars! We can’t wait to share the results! 🤩

We are delighted that our Director, Ben Cairns, has been awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List, for services to charity and the voluntary sector. A huge congratulations from us all, Ben! 🙌 🔗 Read more and Ben's response: buff.ly/3xrNYJq

📢 Are you a charity with an income under £50,000? This #SmallCharityWeek, we’re offering you the chance to get FREE NCVO membership. Join us by 30 June 👉ncvo.org.uk/get-involved/j…

It was great to partner with NCVO Microsoft UK yesterday on a #SmallCharityWeek event on AI. Here is a sneak peek of what Charity Digital Skills Report tells us about how small charities are using AI, ahead of the report launch in July. 👇

🆕 AI experimentation canvas: free to download! Dan Sutch introduces the #AI experimentation canvas that we use at CAST to help us think through any use of #GenAI - and shares Miro and printable versions of the canvas to download and use for yourself 👇buff.ly/4e4kQIP

Brilliant Ada Lovelace Institute blog: 'We need to be more precise abt the role AI can play in Govt & public services. This may be less glamorous than a rhetoric of easy wins & revolutionary transformations but it could yet yield sustained value for the public.' adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/ai-public…