A visit to Civic Square. Early this year I wrote a blog post that was about funding the third horizon with what I hoped might be some helpful prompt questions for funders to ask themselves. This morning I got to visit the Civic Square crew in Birmingham who alongside Huddle…

I 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 others, figuring out how to make sense of these times and where I can be most useful. One thing I am sure of though…

Back in September 2021 I co-hosted one of the Philea Community of Practice sessions I run. The focus of the conversation was to explore what it means to fund the ‘third horizon.’ Obviously the perfect guest speaker for this was Graham Leicester. It was a rich discussion so I wanted…

This was too long for a tweet but maybe too short for a blog! I wanted to share it though. Friendship is the most important thing to me. I cherish my friends and take the practice of friendship very much to heart. The pandemic changed what’s been possible and whilst…

In my last few weeks at TNLCF I co-wrote a blog that highlighted the role participatory grantmaking could play in ‘levelling up’ — explored here. …

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 foundation like JRF is investing in this field and especially at this time. My journey to this work I was thinking back to where this work started for me…

The 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 asked most about, so I thought I’d do a quick summary of things I learnt. For those not familiar with the programme, it…

“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 legitimacy of that? I don’t know what that future looks like, so I think we’re bridging into the fog, an unknown landscape and…

In the third session of Reconsidering the Dark Matter of Funding, we continued exploring questions of impact, accountability, measurement and evidence. What do they mean? Are these framings still fit for purpose in a world where we are increasingly aware of the centrality of complexity and entanglement? What if…