Learning

We’ve captured the lessons from funder’s responses to covid-19 that we think can help inform the work that we do together to support our communities through recovery and for the long-term.

We’ve produced reports about the power of working collaboratively through place-based partnerships. We’ve also commissioned work to look at how funders can improve their ways of working to better support civil society. 

The ambition for our learning programme is to ensure that of all the positive changes funders made to their practices during the pandemic ‘stick’ in the long-term and that we look to the future with renewed confidence and ambition. 

Every year, we host a ‘Festival of Learning, bringing together our members together share best practice and reflect on the role of funders in supporting the capital’s communities. You can read more reflections from the 2021 Festival of Learning here and 2022 reflections can be found here.  

We also publish regular learning blogs, some of which you can find below: 

• Three months into my role at London Funders

• What we learnt from co-ordinating a funder response for Afghan Refugees

• Looking ahead for London’s place based giving schemes

• One month in – What I’ve learnt about the funding sector, what more I’d like to learn and what needs to change

• Reflections from #Camference21: Power, participation and progress?

• Fresh from the Al Frescoes - what we've learned

• How do we challenge systems of power to build strong communities? Here’s what we’ve learnt over the past month