Cripplegate Foundation is looking for a research partner to help us learn more about if, and how, the lives of people in Islington have changed over recent years. What we discover through this piece of work will help shape how, as a local funder, we can best work with local people and the rich and diverse voluntary sector in the borough. Are you interested in working with us to learn more about our community? If so, we’d like to hear from you.

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We want to revisit the central questions posed in our report: Distant Neighbours; Poverty and Inequality in Islington:

• Have people’s lives changes over the last ten years? If so, how?
• How are residents and communities faring – economically, socially, health-wise, culturally? What’s got better? What’s got worse?
• What might the future hold?
• And what can we do about it? What is our role as a local, place-based funder? How do we best use our resources to address inequality in Islington and Cripplegate Ward?

We would like residents to be involved in the research so that the process of compiling this work is informed and influenced by local people and their own lives and experiences, in addition to offering an opportunity for local people to develop skills and build a stake in the outcome.

If this project is interesting to you, please send us a short description of how you would plan to conduct the work, some examples of how you have worked with other clients, and a brief description of why this project is of interest. Please keep your expression of interest to three pages.

We are happy to have a discussion before you do this, or for you to put down some initial ideas which we can work with you to shape. Please don’t write a whole project plan at this point. We are interested to hear about your approach, and particularly how you propose to involve residents.

Deadline for submission of interest: May 8th, 2023.

If you have any questions or would like to express an interest, please contact: Sarah Benioff, Director, sarah.benioff@cripplegate.org.uk or Anne Shewring, Programme Director, anne.shewring@cripplegate.org.uk