Pure Civil Society Activity

It is clear from the feedback from the 20 people receiving the box cold that success in scaling Give a Day, with each participating place feeling part of and connected to a movement, will require three enhancements to our approach. First, we need to be much better at comms. We don’t have a plan for…

The feedback from 20 people getting the box suggests there is a relationship between the amount of information shared about Give a Day and the likelihood of somebody delivering Give a Day in their place. It is summarised in the following graphs. Too little information leads to a low probability of take up and implementation….

The work has thrown up a challenge. Prior to the pandemic, Give a Day in Carlisle had grown exponentially over a period of five years, reaching around 40 projects in 2019. After the pandemic, Carlisle started from scratch. Most the people involved in the Give a Day network had been significantly involved in the response…

Our network of community leaders posed us a challenge. Should the work be led by individuals or a community of people? Could we use Give a Day to create new connections to lead the work in each place? We aim to find out. It means some changes to our plan. One option, suggested by one…

The Give a Day box has been designed for individuals interested in leading the work in their community, town or City. When we share information about Give a Day, we get calls from people saying ‘I want to do that’. When we sit and ask ourselves, who might do this on the East Coast, we…

We posted the Give a Day box to 12 people around England and Scotland. Some of these people passed on their box to others people, leading to feedback from 20 in all. The box arrives in the post. Most things in the post these days are annoying, or they bring bad news of bigger bills….

So far, only three of the six places have either delivered or committed to deliver Give a Day. We have limited information on why people highly committed to Give a Day do not follow through and deliver, despite giving considerable time to the design work. One explanation is a sense of obligation to the founders…

Give a Day Kendall made a video summarising their projects:

Preserving the past means preserving the identity of a place. A local resident wanted to clean the local memorial war, now covered in dirt, weeds, and a derelict fence. She advertised the project in the local parish magazine and nine people came forward. The team brought their gardening tools and paint brushes and approached the…

Carlisle College provide their staff with the opportunity to contribute in the community as part of their professional development. Two teams comprising 65 people were part of Give A Day 2022. Team one created a safe place for refugees. Team two renovated the garden and built a new community space for Carlisle Key, an organisation…