The Clothworkers’ Foundation Open Grants Programme The Clothworkers’ Foundation improves the lives of people and communities – particularly those facing disadvantage and marginalisation – through grant making. The Foundation was set up in 1977 to be the primary vehicle of charitable giving for The Clothworkers’ Company. Their Open Grants Programme accepts applications from UK registered charities or […]
Event Report: UK Poverty 2025 Launch Webinar
Event Report: UK Poverty 2025 Launch Webinar The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) hosted a pivotal webinar to launch its UK Poverty 2025 report, offering a stark analysis of poverty trends and systemic challenges in the UK. As a data-driven research consultant at Rocket Science consultancy, I attended this crucial event to deepen our understanding of inequality in […]
Life at Rocket Science
Being a Rocket Scientist… … means getting to work across many different projects and with different clients to help transform people’s lives. To find out more what life at Rocket Science is like, read below from some of our team. What’s your current role? As a Lead Consultant I’m involved in proposal writing at the bidding […]
Online Harms
Evaluation of the education pilot for West Yorkshire Combined Authority Violence Reduction Partnership The latest report has been released after a pilot project in Bradford focusing on online harms, education and support. “If you post something it’ll never be deleted. It can be on someone’s phone. Someone could have saved it. You can’t control what […]
Insights from three of our impact partners
Insights from three of our impact partners On September 25th we debuted a bright new London office at Impact Hub Euston, located in the heart of the city. We invited members of our network to come down and explore the workspace, celebrating all we do together and hope to do in the future. In addition […]
An update
Cherri Blissett is stepping down from her role as joint managing director of Rocket Science to pursue a new challenge as a director of a new company. Caroline Masundire will continue as the managing director of Rocket Science, ushering in an exciting new chapter for the business. It’s likely that Rocket Science and Cherri will […]
New grants are available now through the Go! London Foundation fund!
New grants are available now through the Go! London Foundation fund! The Go! London Foundation grants of up to £40,000 are dedicated to boosting support and sustainability. They fund initiatives that improve access to sport and physical activity for young people from lower income households, amplify positive social outcomes of these activities, as well as […]
Call for evidence: Research on the impact of violence reduction unit navigator programmes
Call for evidence: Research on the impact of violence reduction unit navigator programmes Rocket Science has been commissioned by the South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) to explore the impact of its Plan B project – a crime reduction programme involving a Navigator approach. To inform the design of our evaluation and our interpretation of […]
The Rise of the BIDs
The Rise of the BIDs Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) first arrived in this country twenty years ago. Since the establishment of the aptly named Kingston First in 2004, 340 further BIDs have been set up across all parts of the UK. By raising money through levy payments collected from local businesses, BIDs have invested in excess of £1billion […]
Be diligent about due diligence: our top ten tips for charities applying for funding
Due diligence refers to the action that is considered reasonable for an organisation to be expected to take to keep themselves or others and their property safe. […]
