Our ‘Reflecting on our Festival of Learning’, booklet brings together case studies, lessons, and points of reflection that funders, charities, and community groups shared with us during our Festival of Learning 2022.
London Funders’ Funder Collaboration Coordinator and 2027 Associate, Alisha Pomells, builds on her initial blog (one month in at London Funders) to reflect on what she’s learnt, three months later, both at an individual level but also about the wider funding sector.
For our third piece in the Reports Reloaded series, Paul Roberts, CEO of the LGBT Consortium reflects on the Government’s Civil Society Strategy, published in 2018 and look at what is needed to build a future that works for everyone – a central focus of the Government's strategy.
To celebrate 25 years, we're looking back at London Funders' archive of reports and think pieces. What has changed? What remains relevant? How can we build on past lessons and analysis to inform the future of funding?To gain different perspectives on the reports, we’ve been asking several key funders and stakeholders to reflect back to see what learning still applies and how funders can move forward together to tackle key issues facing London ‘post’-pandemic. In this piece, we asked Dame Julia Unwin to reflect on the inquiry she chaired into the future of civil society back in 2018 and share lessons on the good, the bad and the ugly in the years that followed the inquiry.
For the first day of this year’s Camference, we brought together our members and four excellent panelists to reflect on funders role in shifting power. Funders have taken big steps to address power dynamics and move towards more equitable funding processes over the past 18 months; but how do we sustain that long-term?
The past is constantly being reviewed and reinterpreted through the lens of the present. John Griffiths, the author of last year’s Review of Reviews looks back to see what we can still draw on from several pre-Covid strategies to inform our future planning for civil society’s recovery . . .
Ubele, Women’s Resource Centre, Consortium and Inclusion London have been working on developing a London specific funding framework detailing the principles and practice they believe are most effective at reducing structural inequality within and beyond the London Community Response – here they share their thoughts on how we can move towards justice.
