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Join us to develop a shared approach to due diligence

It costs civil society in the region of £900m per year to apply for funding.

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Exploring power: Lessons from the Civic Power Fund

As part of London Funders' ongoing learning question on what it means for funders to share power, we asked Zain Hafeez, Community Fund Manager at the Civic Power Fund what they’ve learnt about building community power and how funders can best support this work to create systemic change.

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Exploring power: Interview with Funders for Race Equality Alliance

As part of London Funders' ongoing learning question on what it means for funders to share power, we spoke to Yusra Ali (Programme Officer) from the Funders for Race Equality Alliance (FREA)

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Exploring power: Path to liberation - power as a tool not a weapon

As part of London Funders' ongoing learning question on what it means for funders to share power, we asked the Baobab Foundation what they've learnt from building a funding model centred around building power for Black and Global Majority communities.

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What it takes to collaborate at scale towards systemic change

Katie Turner, from The Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR), shares what we’re learning about the design and implementation of the Propel programme.

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What we learnt about power and supporting change from our January insight meeting

Our first insight meeting of 2023 focused on how funders can support charities and social movements to campaign for change.

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A time for deeper learning: what does it actually mean to share power?

When we launched our new strategy for 2023-2030 at the end of last year, we set out our ambition to drive a strong learning culture, where shared data, intelligence, and insights lead to better decision-making and action from London’s funders.

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Lessons from 2022: turning ambition into action

As we approach the end of the year, we’ve distilled some of the key learning from this work and reflected on how we build on it for 2023.

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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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Cost of Living Week: How funders and local authorities can work together to support residents during the cost of living crisis

For our Cost of Living Week, we asked Lara Rufus- Fayemi (Strategic Partners and Engagement Manager) and Anne Bowers (Senior Strategic Lead Community Public Health Community Champions Co-ordinators Lead ADPH London) from the London Borough of Newham about how they are using the lessons from the pandemic to support their residents through the cost of living crisis and how we as funders can help.

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