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nicolesykes.bsky.social
Charities, charts, cats. Director of Policy, Communications and Research at Lloyds Bank Foundation. She/her🏳️‍🌈
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How many more high earning parents simply cut their hours (with all the resulting consequences for productivity) to avoid the childcare trap if salary sacrifice is done away with by HMT?

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Came on the internet just to check everyone else was also as baffled as me. Reassuring as ever.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I like how this makes it seem that everyone worships the totemic non-voter in a strange and arcane dance, not least because that's somewhat true

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Another great example of libraries articulating how funding is multiplied into broader benefit from @librariesunlimited.bsky.social This needs a national framework - again this shows if we reduce library funding we just shifts costs elsewhere (here to NHS) impactreporting.co.uk/success-stor...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Also: turn off social media and get out into the community. The vibe is pretty much literally the opposite. Visit a community hub/garden/retrofit scheme/library/kitchen/clothes swap/etc. (And then pop back briefly and tell us about it!)

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

“Back in March 2021, 90% of Labour MPs said it was acceptable for charities receiving public money to challenge government policy. That figure has now fallen to 66%.” Wonder what changed 😂😂 nfpresearch.com/blog/can-cha...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve long believed Bill Gates deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. His decision to distribute virtually all his wealth through the Gates Foundation by 2045 is just the latest evidence of this fact. It reflects the kind of decisive, high-leverage action we need.

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

Walking through the park. Ahead, 2 older guys getting merrily wasted. "There's a smiling girl. Hey, you wanna dance with me?" one calls. Makes me laugh, tell him maybe next time. The other fully lays into him because "we don't treat women like that in Sarf London. We don't do that." Love an #ally

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Great report from @wearenewlocal.bsky.social on community centres - managing to be detailed and comprehensive, while also warm. We can't shy away from the challenges that leave too many of these assets underpowered. But there's some fabulous work to learn from. www.newlocal.org.uk/publications...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Think my new provocative bit might be saying "if you want to give young people something to belong to, middle aged men need to get off their phones and start running stuff in their community".

submitted 28 days ago • 36 comments

Idk lads, I think the referendum pledge in 2013 might have been a mistake for the future of the Tory party.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

What's that Paula? Can't quite hear you. Now, back to the studio from this utterly transformed new political scene....

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Words To Live By Number 221

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Full recommend. Build it into your weekend plans if it's not already in there.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

submitted 34 days ago • 20 comments

Currently engaged in a stand off with a vicious crow who’s determined to kill a baby squirrel. Saw it pluck it from its tree and drop it to the ground. Am now in the middle of the street with a broom, standing guard. I don’t know how this ends.

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

I adore my church community cafe. I’m provably a massive fan of volunteer-led social infrastructure. The roaring Easter fire animation with the demented rabbits staring at me over their hot chocolates is threatening to overthrow my stance on the whole sector.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

In an age of defence and geopolitical uncertainty it’s domestic issues like lack of “social capital” that are likely to fall by the wayside. Me in today’s @thetimes.com Making friends is what keeps us happy www.thetimes.com/article/d86f...

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Another quick share of this because surely Easter = chocolate eggs + systems change

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Obviously, this is the kind of warning you only see after you've been to the garden centre twice.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Not only this — and this is a big deal — but how on earth will the police ensure that male officers won’t be allowed to search cis women who look a bit butch and can’t prove they’re women?

submitted 45 days ago • 38 comments