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Q&A with Local Trust: long-term participatory funding to drive local change

How do you embed participation in a long-term funding programme? Continuing our learning focus on participation, we spoke with Megan Falck, programme manager at Local Trust, about lessons from the Big Local programme and what they’ve learnt from handing over decision-making and power to local communities across the country

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Londoners hit the polls – what’s in store for the capital?

As attention turns to next week’s elections, we pick out some of the key issues candidates have been campaigning on this year.

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Q&A with Camden Giving: Legacy, local decision-making and solidarity

What’s it like to be involved in participatory grant making? As part of our current focus on participation, we joined Sammy Mason, a Camden resident and Natasha Friend, Director of Camden Giving, to hear their reflections about resident-led panels and the wider impacts of being involved in local decision making.

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Q&A with London Borough of Newham: Lessons from delivering participatory budgeting

As part of our learning focus on participation, we spoke with Sadia Ur-Rehman, Resident Engagement and Participation Manager at the London Borough of Newham about what they've learnt from ‘People Powered Places’, their flagship programme for participatory budgeting and engagement of local residents.

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Practising participation: Q&A with Islington Giving on learning, adapting and finding the right balance

In January, we shared why our learning programme will have a strong focus on participation in the months ahead. We’re currently bringing together learning from those doing participatory work to help us understand the breadth of approaches being taken, what it takes to do it well and how it might enable us and our members to be responsive to the needs of London’s communities.We spoke with Lisa Robinson and Anne Shewring from Islington Giving – a place based funder in Islington – about what they’ve learnt from involving residents in grant making decisions.

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Our highlights from 2023: building a movement, learning together and collaborating for change

A little over a year ago, we launched our new strategy for 2022-2030, focusing on our purpose of bringing funders together to build a better London by taking action on what matters to our city and our communities. As 2023 draws to an end, the London Funders team reflect on some of the highlights from the first year of putting our strategic ambitions into practice.

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The next chapter for place based giving

At our Autumn Conference Kristina Glenn, advisor for London’s Giving, and Helen Mathie, our Director of Partnerships & Place, talked to delegates about a new Resource Hub to support the growth of place based giving. We're taking the opportunity to celebrate what place based giving has achieved so far, and share a bit more about this exciting next chapter.

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Reflecting on our Festival of Learning 2023

From 10 – 24 May 2023, London Funders' member organisations came together share learning, insights, and experiences, to build hope and community, and explore our shared vision of a fairer, greener and safer London.

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The missing piece in the capacity building puzzle

By Antonia Swinson, CEO of the Ethical Property Foundation

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Reflections from our trustees: our ambitions for the future

To reflect the big ambitions for our organisation, London Funders' staff and trustees have worked with members for the past year to develop a new strategy for 2022 - 2030. To coincide with the publication of the new strategy, we talked to Edith Galliers (LB Waltham Forest), who has been a trustee at London Funders for two years, and Emma Corrigan (The National Lottery Community Fund) who joined the Board earlier in the year. We asked what excites them about the new strategy, how we deal with uncertainty, and how our new strategy can enable us to drive long-term change for London’s communities.

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A year of giving: what we’ve learned from working with London’s network of place based giving schemes

We all have something to give – be that time, skills, expertise, connections, or money. Place based giving schemes bring together local people, businesses, charities, and other organisations to look at how to best use these assets locally to build a better borough for everyone.

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Reflecting on our Festival of Learning 2022

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.

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