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‘We believe this is the way to do it’: Exploring the City St George’s merger

This report from UK think tank HEPI offers rare real-world guidance from an unusually large and high-stakes merger. City St George’s: HEPI report sets out...

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Examining the evidence on place-based research partnerships: Towards a set of principles for successful partnerships

This report from UK think tank City-REDI examines what makes place based research partnerships work effectively. This evidence review brings together academic and practice based...

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Unsung Britain

This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation paints a portrait of the poorer half of the country's population. The 13 million working-age families...

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Far from settled: The government’s ‘earned settlement’ consultation

This report from UK think tank IPPR examines the government's 'earned settlement' consultation. How long should people have to wait until they can permanently settle...

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Writing for impact training (part 1)

19 February 2026
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Want to make your writing more compelling? Understand the fundamentals of good writing? Do you work with data but need to practise how to weave it into a narrative? This training session has all this and more.

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16 February 2026
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Fundraising fundamentals training

A full house for our Fundraising Fundamentals training as we took a big group of think tankers through a whole of day of core fundraising...

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New strategic communications training

A brand new training session was run for the first time in December. This training is aimed at those working in the communications teams of...

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Operations Network in-person meeting

Our Operations & HR Network (one of our most established networks) met in-person just before Christmas for a big meeting covering everything from our new...

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