Friday Selection Box: 26th September 2025

Improving charity Boards

Great recent research from the Association of Chairs identifying priorities for development: an overall improvement strategy for the sector, diversity and inclusion, developing a learning culture and establishing clear principles for board behaviour.

Valuable reflections from the Decelerator project

If you take away just one thing from this blog, let it be this: raise questions about endings early, and make it a regular part of your routine.

The power of making

Lots to absorb in a great report – ‘a quarter of Brits are crafting.’

SHAPE Involve and Engage

An interesting grant scheme for creative academics looking to work with cultural organisations.

These awards, up to £8,000, offer an exciting opportunity for humanities and social sciences researchers to push boundaries and seek imaginative new ways to engage with the public. We are looking for researchers from across the UK to deliver innovative public engagement projects working in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation).

Dance Umbrella 2025

It’s that time again – lots to catch across London and online with Dance Umbrella 2025.

100% Foreign

100% Foreign, a project by artist Maja Nydal featuring portraits of 250 people granted asylum in Denmark between 1956 and 2019 that challenges ideas of belonging and foreignness.  (The website is in Danish.)