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64 Million Artists are using digital tools to engage isolated older people in Leicester in creative activity, and for the Celebrating Age programme, turning Gateshead's libraries into places for older residents to make and exhibit.

Stratford Circus is using its Celebrating Age funding to run regular arts and social clubs for the over-60s in Newham, East London, where older people are often particularly affected by the problems of poverty and loneliness.

The Foundation’s Chair reflects on the Foundation’s recent Strategy Review.

How inclusive are we? David Cutler looks at how the Arts & Older People programme has sought to think about diversity among older people.

For its Celebrating Age project, Hat Fair in Winchester has commissioned exciting new theatre and film with older people to share their stories with wider audiences in a range of ways.

Kat Lorenz (Asylum Support Appeals Project) and Polly Glynn (Deighton Pierce Glynn) explain how training voluntary sector advisors to prepare pre-action letters is helping to resolve Home Office delays.

Julia Unwin, Chair of Civil Society Futures (the Independent Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society), offers some reflections following the launch of the Inquiry's findings in November.

Birthrights is working with Birth Companions to identify and promote how rights-respecting maternity care can improve the experience of pregnancy and childbirth for women who are facing severe disadvantage.

David Cutler is inspired by a visit to the World Gold Theatre festival last month in Saitama, Japan.

The law can be a powerful tool for change across the voluntary sector and across issues, and not just for those who see themselves as 'legal charities'.