After 26 years of community work, Walworth resident and organiser Sylvia Raven felt disillusioned with the funding landscape, that never seemed to truly listen to the needs of its grantees. Then she met Serena from the Giving Lab.
Building trust amongst local residents is integral to delivering a place-based community-led fund. But how do you make sure everybody’s heard, and no one gets left behind? We spoke to Serena Dyett, Engagement & Outreach Lead at The Giving Lab, to get her thoughts.
The Southwark Local Access Partnership invites tenders for a range of a range of enterprise support packages.
The Giving Lab hosted its Summer Festival to celebrate the amazing TGL community and their unique talents. Community members showcased their TGL funded services at pop-up booths, providing handmade food, wellness crafts, health check-ins, AI-led personal training, and more. Read this blog to be transported to the incredible event.
In 2020, at the heart of the COVID crisis, TSIP worked with the British Science Association (BSA) to re-design a public engagement in research-fund which reflects the realities of people’s lived experiences around their health.
Civil Society Support Organisations (CSSOs) look to provide infrastructure support to enable frontline services to do their work. However, in recent years, this has become more challenging – the underfunded sector has overstretched resources against growing demand. The grant-giving and charitable…
Community connectors, John and Betty explore what it’s like to co-design a fund in an interview with community participants who were involved in the co-design process of the Ideas Fund in partnership with the British Science Association.
John Hitchin describes the scenarios and issues that move people to begin to work differentally and invites funders to test some practical tools to help places and organisations move towards systemic change in a place.
Find out how you can get involved in a community of places and organisations thinking and working differently to achieve systemic social change.
