Starting Out

There’s a lot to think about when you are starting out in any new venture. Often the big (and exciting!) vision can become overwhelmed by more practical and mundane tasks, however necessary these are. As someone who is fairly new in post I recognise how this...

Sustaining Self-Directed Support

Sometimes you just know you are in the right place with the right people at the right time. Our recent workshop series on sustaining self-directed support was a great example, so we’ve written a special report to share the learning. From the very start, we knew...

Implementation Guide goes live

The new Implementation Guide launched at the SCVO Gathering today, to a very engaged audience . Like the Lasting Difference itself, feedback from participants shows that the Guide will help people to think in new ways about sustainability. You can download the...

Gathering momentum

This year’s Gathering marks our fifth birthday as a full time enterprise and the second anniversary the Lasting Difference’s launch. We’ve made lots of progress, not least with 3500+ copies of the toolkit being used and supported by charities,...