In April and May 2023 I’m travelling across Europe to meet people building bridges between generations. Is this you, or people you know? This blog explains why I’m doing this and more about the plan for the trip so far. — The plan I got a Churchill Fellowship! So in April — May 2023, I’m heading off on an 8 week train journey across Europe to learn from people and places building bridges between generations. Stretching across the arts, culture, education, sports, housing, agriculture and beyond, I am interested in the shared everyday…

It’s Global Intergenerational Week. And as luck would have it I’m in the middle of a research trip (a Churchill Fellowship) learning from people connecting generations with a specific focus on rural communities. As my overnight train wound its way slowly from Palermo in Sicily to Florence in Northern Italy earlier this week I reflected on the people I had met over the month I spent in Sicily and what they told me about their generational connections. Here are 9 initial and incomplete reflections with many more to come in the weeks and months ahead.

A quick blog about my plans for the next few months as I set off on my Churchill Fellowship to learn from people building bridges between generations in Europe and beyond. And a call out for recommendations for things to listen to and read related to intergenerational work. I am…

In the third and final in blog in this series, Iona Lawrence outlines The Decelerator for civil society — a project emerging from the work and learnings of Stewarding Loss since 2019. Work on the design of the Decelerator will begin in earnest in June 2023. Please complete this form…

In the first of a series of three blogs, the team behind Stewarding Loss (Louise Armstrong, Cassie Robinson and Iona Lawrence) share their vision for a civil society that embraces better endings. Civil society is trapped in a game. This is a game in which nonprofit leaders, funders and stakeholders…

On 19th January 2023, 50 people from across the UK got together on zoom united by their share commitment to building bridges between generations. …

Who do you need to deliver a good ending for your organisation? If you’re considering or designing or a closure or ending of any sort in your civil society organisation, here are a few roles you might want to consider building into your plan. At Stewarding Loss we believe that harnessing the power of a collective and community-wide approach to ending is an essential foundation of any good ending (you might want to check out our 7 Principles For Better Endings for more on this). When we say ‘collective and community-wide’ we mean very…

In 2019 Stewarding Loss set out to support civil society at all levels to dedicate the time, energy, care and resource to endings that it does to beginnings, uninhibited by fear, stigma or prejudice and rooted in best practice. Today we are gathering funders together to witness the testimony of…

I have a lot of admiration for people who churn out weeknotes every single week or even just monthly. I am averaging ‘18 month notes’ which doesn’t feel like it comes close to achieving what is possible when you ‘work in the open’…but here we are. I set sail as…