COVID-19 and Communities Listening Project: A Shared Response

We are delighted to share with youCOVID-19 and Communities Listening Project: A Shared Response, published today by the Carnegie UK Trust.

The report draws together findings from over 80 conversations with people across the UK during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on how organisations and communities were adapting to meet the changing needs of the people around them, as well as the evolving relationships between different sectors.

The report reflects that at the onset of the pandemic, it was often communities who stepped up to offer essential support, such as food and checking in on isolated individuals. The report calls for more partnership working between the public and voluntary sectors and communities: investing in communities to unlock their power.

Looking to the future, the Trust considers how to maintain working together and sharing power across sectoral and professional boundaries. The report highlights actions taken in the pandemic that could be a springboard for moving towards long-held ambitions of partnership working and more people-focused and preventative public sector services.

You can read the full report here and an accessible version is available here. 

A blog on the report’s key messages is also available on our website.

We would be delighted to hear your views on the ideas put forward in the report, and you can share the report with your networks over Twitter using the hashtag #COVIDConversations.

Best wishes

Sarah

Sarah Davidson
Chief Executive
Carnegie UK Trust

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