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How can we support communities and civil society, and what are we doing differently?
12 November, 2020
A civil society that is fit for the future requires us to be a holistic grant-maker. Offering our funding products and support through grantmaking but also the ability to share, learn and generate thinking to help us all be fit for the future. Read more -
Exploring radically better organisational development
28 September, 2020
In the last six months, the UK nonprofit sector has rapidly adapted to the disruptions of Covid-19. Within weeks, charities, voluntary and social enterprise organisations have created new services, secured emergency funding and increased partnership working. Read more -
A real-time investigation into the relationship between communities and technology
10 September, 2020
Rachel Coldicutt, Founder of Careful Industries and previously CEO of Doteveryone, writes about the process and findings of the Glimmers project, a real-time investigation into the relationship between technology and civil society, supported by TNLCF Digital Fund. Read more -
Collaboration amongst funders in Wales has been critical in supporting communities through COVID-19
3 June, 2020
John Rose, our Director for Wales, reflects on the response of funders to the immediate challenges of COVID-19 and the longer-term implications for civil society in Wales. Read more -
How can we make more collective progress when funding single organisations?
4 March, 2020
Most of the challenges and opportunities facing individual grantees can better be explored and resolved with more partners involved and we must find more ways for these partners to be brought meaningfully into a shared journey says, Founder of Shift, Nick Stanhope. Read more -
Introducing the Digital Fund — and a different way of funding digital
13 December, 2019
Phoebe Tickell Digital Portfolio Officer at The National Lottery Community Fund introduces the Digital Fund and its approach to funding in a digital and networked age. Read more -
Lived experience & the third sector: how do we navigate a work in progress?
3 July, 2019
The National Lottery Community Fund’s Strategic Framework, People in the Lead, believes that with people in the lead communities thrive, and we’ve worked hard to think about how we reflect lived experience in our approach. Read more -
1 July, 2019
Treating lived experience as narrative fuel for social change might well be effective in capturing the attention of the wider public, but it has the simultaneous effect of marginalising and pigeonholing the very voices that provide that fuel. Read more
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Temoor Iqbal
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Knowledge and Learning Manager
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- Communities
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4 June, 2019
Once upon a time, philanthropy was the key ingredient underpinning efforts to catch people at risk of slipping through the gap between the power of the state, the market and the reach of social networks to address need. But in 2019, things look a bit different. Read more
