PinnedPublished inAn Archive of my work whilst at The National Lottery Community FundThe Cover Story for this archiveI’ve just finished three years at The National Lottery Community Fund where I worked from November 2018 until November 2021. I was…Dec 24, 2021Dec 24, 2021
Published inPaul Hamlyn FoundationKinship Discovery — Guiding PrinciplesI am working with Paul Hamlyn Foundation on Kinship Discovery-these are the principles that will guide this exploratory phase.Oct 30, 2023Oct 30, 2023
Answering some questions about Imagination Infrastructures.Earlier this week I did a session on Imagination Infrastructures for a few different communities that came together for one event: the…Jan 30, 20231Jan 30, 20231
Imagination Infrastructures at Anticipation ConferenceLast November I was one of the speakers at the Anticipation conference — thank you to Keri Facer. If you don’t know it, I’d really…Jan 7, 2023Jan 7, 2023
More of and less of in 2023Given I’ve done some mammoth blog posts the last few days, I thought it might be good practice to do a really short one! I was also…Jan 6, 20233Jan 6, 20233
Becoming 2023 – some of the things I’ll be doing this year.My previous blog, where I reflected back on my work in 2022 was so long it became a good reminder of why I should begin writing more…Jan 4, 20232Jan 4, 20232
My 2022 and what this means for my 2023.Throughout the year people have asked me “How’s JRF going?” or “How’s Power to Change going?” — I’m not sure people have realised the way…Jan 2, 20232Jan 2, 20232
Help us to design our new Visionaries programme and fund.A few weeks back we (Joseph Rowntree Foundation) shared an update about the work we’re continuing to grow and invest in, in relation to…Dec 20, 2022Dec 20, 2022
Help us continue to grow the field of social and collective imagination“The lack of plural, functional, compelling and active vision(s) in the United Kingdom (actually England, where I currently live) is…Nov 3, 20223Nov 3, 20223
What if philanthropy could seed new economic possibilities?This blog is part of the Reimagining Economics Possibilities series. This series accompanies the Neighbourhood Doughnut portfolio of work…Oct 30, 2022Oct 30, 2022
Questions about work and my time in 2022I think it will take me some time to work out what I want to do longer-term for work. I’m still recovering, reflecting and like many…Feb 9, 20221Feb 9, 20221
Funding the Third HorizonBack in September 2021 I co-hosted one of the Philea Community of Practice sessions I run. The focus of the conversation was to explore…Jan 23, 20224Jan 23, 20224
Starting further upstream — in the soil.In my last few weeks at TNLCF I co-wrote a blog that highlighted the role participatory grantmaking could play in ‘levelling up’ —…Jan 9, 2022Jan 9, 2022
Change happens if our collective imagination changes.Sophia shared a few weeks back about the work I’ll be doing with JRF and with a growing group of partners. I’m really glad that a…Jan 9, 20225Jan 9, 20225
Emerging Futures — patterning the third horizonThe Emerging Futures Fund, that we set up at TNLCF in Spring 2020, in that first wave of the pandemic, is one of the programmes I get…Jan 9, 20224Jan 9, 20224
Dark Matter of Funding — Session 4“The definition of impact that has that legitimacy to say this is a good future, this is a bad future — how do you track the social…Dec 23, 2021Dec 23, 2021
Dark Matter of Funding — Session 3In the third session of Reconsidering the Dark Matter of Funding, we continued exploring questions of impact, accountability, measurement…Dec 23, 2021Dec 23, 2021
Published inAn Archive of my work whilst at The National Lottery Community FundInternal Capacity BuildingSome of my work was about building more capacity internally to think differently and longer-term, to use strategic foresight and outsight…Dec 16, 2021Dec 16, 2021