Lynne Berry
Charity chief exec and policy insider Lynne Berry is currently transforming volunteering stalwart WRVS into an organisation that helps older people get the support they need to live they way they want. Read her latest thinking on positive ageing and practical living. After all, it's your future too.
BlogsSupping with a long spoon
A new Cabinet sub-committee will lift the barriers to third sector delivery of public services. The sector will need to learn new ways of influencing that retain its independence whilst making sure users of services and patients get the right services when and where they need them.
BlogsOne and twenty - a buttered scone and getting plenty: pension take up in bingo hall and tea bar
Tackling povety in old age
BlogsMore than tea and sympathy
It’s not just tea and sympathy that’s on offer. Advocacy, empowerment, peer-to-peer support are all available at WRVS’ hospital cafés.
BlogsCliquey, self-absorbed and weak? Hardly.
It’s hard when your commissioners say you’re cliquey, self-absorbed and weak in partnerships.