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Question and Answer Responses Published for Starter for 10 Design Competition

By Rebecca Dillon / June 12, 2017

In response to your feedback, we’ve put together a short questions and answers sheet to further support those looking to enter the competition

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Interim evaluation of our NRPF project now online

By Rebecca Dillon / February 10, 2017

The interim evaluation report on our No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) project is now available to download.

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Unattractive, unsympathetic and controversial ….it’s what we do

By Rebecca Dillon / June 27, 2016

As part of Commonweal Housing’s 10th Anniversary celebration this year – we launched a new competition Starter for 10 with the prize being £10,000 to fund research or a feasibility study in to new and under-reported areas of social injustice.  We wanted to help organisations explore new problems and new injustices that they believe are…

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Immigration Bill 2015-16

By Rebecca Dillon / October 12, 2015

This week the government’s Immigration Bill 2015-16 reaches its second reading, which will see it debated on the floor of the House of Commons for the first time. The Bill seeks to enact several of the Conservative Party’s manifesto commitments on Immigration, but there are also revisions to existing legislation around support for Asylum Seekers.…

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An international insight – altruism in Jordan

By Rebecca Dillon / February 11, 2015

A local bus station in Jordan’s capital city of Amman served as the meeting point for myself and twelve others from across the globe. We would then take a 30 minute drive to the residential area of Al Zarqa – Jordan’s second city and our home for the next 2 weeks. We were to spend…

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