After yet another year of global unrest and shrinking civic space, Bond’s Rowan Popplewell takes us through how civil society and civic space has been under fire throughout 2025, and offers a message of solidarity.
The Crime and Policing Bill is back in parliament after a summer break that saw thousands on the streets in protests. Here’s what you need to know about Labour’s first piece of legislation with measures that will further restrict the right to protest.
In this second blog, we’ll look at 10 different ways UK-based NGOs can stand in solidarity with those impacted, both here in the UK and overseas, and even take preventive action to anticipate and mitigate threats to civic space.
This blog, the first in a two-part series, will look at what is happening to civic space and how its impacting international development. In the second part we will look what international NGOs can do to help strengthen civic space.
Bond has continued to track and analyse changes to civic space in the UK over the last 12 months. We have identified nine new trends which we believe are shaping the environment for civil society in the UK.
Today, Thursday 22 May, Bond, the UK network for civil society organisations working in international development, has released its UK…
What can we learn from other countries to support an enabling environment for civil society in the UK and elsewhere? James Kearney and Rowan Popplewell tell us more.
These recommendations provide a transformative vision for the FCDO’s future. They are characterised by transparency, inclusivity, and a renewed commitment to fostering positive, equitable change.
