.Stewarding Loss has heard time and again that *how* a sector responds to the closure of a peer organisation makes a huge difference to the quality of an ending. NCVO's support with the legacy report is an example of best practice. As is TheFSI and NCVO's HelpDesk partnership

Today Louise Armstrong and I are gathering funders to witness the testimony of Campaign Bootcamp & Small Charities Coalition who closed recently with support from Stewarding Loss. We'll also be sharing a draft action plan for better endings. Read more on it all👇ionaflawrence.medium.com/the-coming-sto…

Useful reflections here based on 3 yrs of work by Stewarding Loss, incl. suggestions for funders and others: "A better, stronger civil society can start today if we start having better conversations and embracing endings as a part of everyday life." ionaflawrence.medium.com/the-coming-sto…

"In the next decade we need a paradigm shift in how endings are considered as part of the lifecycle of orgs across civil society & beyond." Excellent piece by Iona Lawrence / @[email protected] on Stewarding Loss with actions for us all - especially infrastructure leaders. medium.com/thefarewellfun…

Is a new CEO risky? Or…like all kinds of endings: if done right, the start of a propitious new chapter! Interesting Financial Times reflections on succession planning in light of changes at the top of Disney Resonates with Stewarding Loss work on succession in charities/nonprofits 1/2

We had an amazing event a couple of weeks ago on Rethinking Charity Closure and have collated some resources around this topic, with the kind help of the team at Stewarding Loss. Their toolkit on sensing an ending is here: docs.google.com/document/d/14h…

Charities face ‘existential crisis’ as the impacts of the cost of living scandal layer on top of broken business models, exhausted staff and the strained state-civil society relationship. Transformation requires good endings for new beginnings. Stewarding Loss is here to support

Do you have / know of data that shows how much money is available every year to set up *new* charities and non-profit organisations? Or just part of this picture (eg. govt, philanthropy, social finance)? (I want to compare it to data for what's available for closure / merger)

📝3 new blogs from Stewarding Loss (Louise Armstrong Cassie + me) 1️⃣ Why endings? Civil society is bolder + more impactful when it plans for (+ funds!) endings of all kinds eg. project endings, funder exits, founder/ceo transitions, closures + mergers medium.com/thefarewellfun…

1️⃣ Why does civil society need better endings? medium.com/thefarewellfun… 2️⃣ What change and support is needed for civil society to embrace better endings? medium.com/thefarewellfun… 3️⃣ How will The Decelerator help? medium.com/thefarewellfun… Louise Armstrong Cassie Stewarding Loss

While lesser seen and spoken about endings are always present. The inquiry, continued exploration and experiments around endings have been quietly bubbling away, here’s some consolidated reflections and next steps

When Founder CEO Sabrina Jones took the tough decision to close Say It With Your Chest, she wanted to do it well. Congrats Sabrina & Will Bibby on this brilliant legacy work. And to the funders who funded it. I'm glad that Stewarding Loss could play a small part sayitwithyourchest.co.uk/creating-the-l…

This article by Kathy Evans hits so hard. The charity sector is dying, piece by piece, day by day. childrenengland.org.uk/blog/dont-it-a…

The sad news is out already, and the messages are rolling in, so I can only point you to this whole thread explaining what's happening 👇👇👇 And point you to my blog of personal thoughts about the economic context Children England will soon be leaving: childrenengland.org.uk/blog/dont-it-a…