Bond news

Bond’s working groups outline the issues that the new UK government must prioritise to bring in a more effective era of UK overseas development assistance.

At Bond, over the last few months we’ve been working to develop our sector manifesto, ‘A Global System for People and Planet’, which will be launched at an event in Parliament this evening. Here is how we put it together.

After another busy year for all our working groups, we here from the SDGs, Funding, Communications, Disability and Development, Humanitarian and People in the Picture groups about what they’ve been up to, and what they’re planning for 2024.

Last Thursday saw our Annual General Meeting take place online, with members voting in three brand new trustees to our board. Find out a bit more about them.

As we celebrate 30 years of Bond, former Chairs Richard Hawkes and Caroline Nursey reflect on Bond’s history of uniting members for global change and look ahead at what is to come.

Meet two of Bond’s new advisory group members who share their hopes for the group and how they will support Bond to shift power.

Two of Bond’s new advisory group members share their hopes and aspirations for the group and how they will support Bond in walking the talk on decolonisation.

2022 was a year in which we witnessed a real push within the groups towards transforming the sector for the better. With this in mind, we asked group chairs to reflect on the past 12 months and look forward to 2023. Here’s what they had to say:

At Bond and across the sector, we had a very busy year. Thanks to you, our working groups and many of our allies across the sector and beyond we achieved lots of things this year that we’re proud of. Here are a few of them.