HEAR runs and is involved in a number of projects that help bring members together.
Anchor
HEAR has long term funding from City Bridge Foundation through its Anchor fund. This will look at working with HEAR members to strengthen its collective voice across London to bring about social justice, systemic and systematic changes to barriers on discrimination, inequality and disadvantage.
You can read the blog HEAR has contributed to the City Bridge Foundation Anchor website here together with blogs from fellow grantees Alliance for Inclusive Education, Consortium and Interlink Foundation, who are also all HEAR members.
Partnership Projects
HEAR is currently partnering in Digital Foundations, led by Superhighways and funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Digital Foundations
Digital Foundations is a 5 year project focused on basic digital and tech infrastructure skills to support small charities and community groups run services and reach their communities.
Read our learning from focus groups with refugee community and equalities organisations.
HEAR also partnered in Datawise London, led by Superhighways. Datawise London was a partnership programme supporting small charities and community groups in London to better shape services and influence change.
Explore some of the fantastic resources produced by the project.
Co-production on funding design
HEAR is currently co-producing on funding design and implementation with funders such as London Funders and City Bridge Foundation.
Inclusive volunteering:
Over the years promoting inclusion, diversity and accessibility in volunteering has been an important strand of collaborative work for HEAR.
Examples include a previous research partnership project, funded by Spirit of 2012, which looked at inclusive practice within disability and volunteering.
Other examples are working with Lewisham Volunteer Centre, Greater London Volunteering, London Plus and Race on the Agenda.
Digitvol
HEAR's most recent work on inclusive volunteering has been our partnership with the Universities of Salford and Greenwich and Kim Donahue on the Digitvol project, looking at barriers to volunteering for disabled people impacted by digital exclusion, and producing a set of practical recommendations for volunteer-involving organisations.
The project was guided by a panel of HEAR members with lived experience around volunteering and disability, and included both desk research and many in-depth interviews with disabled people.
The partnership held two in-person events for volunteer-involving organisations in London and Salford to support implementation of the recommendations.
Read the research report as a PDF or a Word document.
Read the recommendations as a PDF or a Word document.
If you would like to be added to communications about further work on this please contact: hear@hearequality.org.uk.