Charity of the Month – November
Essex Boys and Girls Clubs Who are Essex Boys and Girls Clubs? Essex Boys and Girls Clubs was set up in 1939 and works with young people across Essex and East London and at their [...]
Alexander Peter – T2S and Conference Review
My Dear Time to Shiners, Class of 2016, What a year we’ve had! From that trepidatious first encounter in the bitter month of January up in Morecambe, to the serenity of Lake Windermere and finally [...]
Conference 2016: Jacky, Faith In Community Dundee
Jacky Close, of Faith in Community Dundee, wrote us this wonderful poem about her experience at The Rank Foundation Conference 2016. We have lots of reviews of the conference to share with you soon, so keep [...]
Rank Memorial Award – Bukola Garry
Bukola Garry was the winner of The Rank Foundation's Memorial Award in 2015. Bukola works for Reaching Higher, whom we have been working with for a number of years. Here, Bukola has kindly written us an [...]
A Summer of CAP 3
Before our Leadership Award Holders begin their first and second years of sixth form, this is our final Summer of CAP article! We are featuring Helen, who returned to Greenbank Community Church for her second [...]
A Summer of CAP 2
As you may have seen this time last week, we are starting to post reviews of our Leadership Award Holders’ Community Action Placements. We are receiving their evaluations and reviews every day, and it has [...]
A Summer of CAP
We are now right in the middle of my favourite time of year – Community Action Placements time! When I started at The Rank Foundation in April 2015, I didn’t know very much about CAP [...]
GAP Residential, May – Nayaab Yaseen Review
On arrival in Cumbria I was greeted by staff and other Gappers, which meant we were able to bond as a group from the onset. The residential was 3 days long and was packed with [...]
CAP 2016 – My Experience: Centre 63
One of our Leadership Award Holders, Connie Lumsdon, is just finishing her second and final year with us by revisiting her original Community Action Placement at Centre 63 in Kirkby. We have asked Connie to [...]
New 3 year report launches at The House of Commons, investigating building better communities through global learning
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and The Rank Foundation are launching their first joint report, 'Building Better Communities through Global Learning' at the House of Commons this evening. In 2012 the two organisations agreed to [...]