Friday Selection Box: 21st March 2025

Social justice funders ‘not doing enough to support people and communities’

The research reports that new funder initiatives have emerged to invest in work that supports community organisation and the wider infrastructure that is needed to support and sustain it. However, the authors argue that funders are not doing enough to enable this work to thrive.

Certain Uncertainties

Recent research from CoSTAR Foresight Lab exploring personal wellness, an ageing population, inclusive dialogue, the socio-digital revolution and new modes of working.

How to see the future coming – and prepare for it

Thinking creatively and courageously about the future.

Reshaping Accreditation: What’s in scope for 2025

An update from Arts Council England on proposals to redesign Accreditation in 2025.

Orlando Figes’s 2019 book The Europeans

Three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture is a fabulous read 

Moomin 80: The Door Is Always Open

One not to miss – the Moonminhouse will be on the Southbank Riverside Terrace Fri 23rd May – Sun 1st June. Tove Jansson was truly a revolutionary storyteller.