Skip to main navigation Skip to main content
  • Member Login
Home
  • About Us
    • Introducing London Funders
    • Our People
    • Our mission and strategy
    • Governance & Annual Reports

    About Us

    London Funders is the only cross-sector membership network for funders and investors in London’s civil society.

    • Introducing London Funders
    • Our People
    • Our mission and strategy
    • Governance & Annual Reports
  • What we do
    • Being there for our members
      • Connecting our members
    • Championing the importance of ‘place’
      • London's Giving
    • Enabling funder collaboration
      • Funder Networks
      • Grenfell Tower
      • London Community Response
    • Learning

    What we do

    With everything from regular events to facilitating learning and collaboration, this is how we enable funders from all sectors to be effective.

    • Being there for our members
    • Championing the importance of ‘place’
    • Enabling funder collaboration
    • Learning
  • Latest
    • Jobs
      • Past Jobs
    • News
    • Events
    • Past Events

    Latest

    Here's the latest news, views and job vacancies from London Funders and the wider funding community.

    • Jobs
    • News
    • Events
    • Past Events
  • Members
    • Join us: benefits
      • We convene
      • We connect
      • We contribute
      • We cooperate
    • Meet our members
    • Apply for membership

    Membership

    Find out more about who we are, how to join and who's in our membership.

    • Join us: benefits
    • Meet our members
    • Apply for membership
  • Resources & Publications
    • Publications
    • Tools for funders
    • Covid-19 Resource Hub
    • Cost of Living Crisis Resource Hub
    • Refugee Resource Hub

    Resources & Publications

    Explore our resources for funders, including London Funders publications, datasets, tools & recruitment.

    • Publications
    • Tools for funders
    • Covid-19 Resource Hub
    • Cost of Living Crisis Resource Hub
    • Refugee Resource Hub
Search the site

The Resilience of People in Community-facing Organisations: What’s the role of funders?

In this report we propose a shared goal for funders, Trustees, managers and workers: community facing organisations in which staff and volunteers are resilient.

The big numbers

3

Building blocks for funders

£33-£42bn

Cost to employers because of poor mental health in the workforce

8

Examples of funder best practice

Community-facing organisations have been reporting back to funders that increased pressure, complexity and demand is leading to concerns about the resilience of their staff and volunteers. These concerns cut across funding themes. London Funders has been exploring how funders can work both individually and collectively to ensure paid staff and volunteers working in community-facing organisations can build their resilience.

Charity sector staff are particularly susceptible to burnout because of the combination of scarce resources, high need clients and expectations of sacrificial behaviour

Our definition of resilience goes beyond having good mental health. It is also about the flexibility that the workforce has to adapt and respond to the people they are engaging with. Furthermore, it is about a working environment where staff and volunteers are encouraged to share and learn and are optimistic about their capacity to effect change. 

Underpinning this report are three key principles for funders: 

  1. Understand: that people delivering the work we fund (may) need support too, and that investment in their resilience should be acknowledged in our funding programmes.
  2. Consider: what are the additional implications for workforce support of services being designed or delivered by people with lived experience?
  3. Recognise: what good looks like, working with specialist infrastructure organisations to establish good practice or professional qualifications in the type of work that you fund.

Click here for the full report. 

Share

  • Tweet this
  • Share on facebook
  • Share linkedin

Resources & Publications

  • Publications
  • Tools for funders
  • Covid-19 Resource Hub
  • Cost of Living Crisis Resource Hub
  • Refugee Resource Hub

Related

Publications

To Begin at the Beginning - A funders response to serious youth violence

15 May 2019
Publications

A Strategy for Funding Immigration Advice in London

13 May 2021
Publications

London Community Response Learning Reports

20 Oct 2021
Back to top
Home
  • About Us
  • What we do
  • Latest
  • Members
  • Resources & Publications

Contact us

020 7255 4488
info@londonfunders.org.uk

Find Us

Toynbee Hall,
28 Commercial St
London E1 6LS

Follow

  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Subscribe on Youtube
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • ©London Funders 2021

  • Privacy and cookies

  • London Funders is a company limited by guarantee, registration number 5596299. Charity registration number 116201

Site by Effusion