I'm going to go make myself a cuppa ☕️but I'd love to hear from you. What are your experiences with participation? 🤚 Do you feel you hold any power in your day-to-day life? 🫶 How does holding power make you feel? 💥 #LCCommonGround

This evening is the 5th meeting of our Community Steering Group and a chance for us to #AskTheExperts about #SocialInvestment What would you ask?

I've worked dead hard at this and I'm really chuffed with how it's turned out – in addition to explaining our organisational approach to learning, it's also my attempt to explain what it is about my job that I enjoy. #participatorygrantmaking Participatory Grantmakers

Join us if you want to work in a great team doing interesting things around #community, #power, #participation, and money (we're also really cool and modest). #fundraisingjobs #fundraising #fundraisingjob #grantmakingjobs #participatorygrantmaking

How was everybody's weekend? I spent mine wondering if I'd hit the right tone with this post on Friday... 🤔Anyway, back to just another manic Monday (ahhhh ah ah) What do we think? More references to music from before I was born? Fewer?

BD Giving needs a new website! We’re looking for someone to design & build a website that tells our story and helps us engage with even more local people on our journey to change the #FutureOfFunding (Local agencies only please) bdgiving.org.uk/jobs/

Too often the imbalance of power means that those with power over decision making do not have direct experience of poverty and inequality. We are interested in how we can give more power to those with first-hand experience of poverty and inequality in Oxfordshire

Very pleased that London Funders have published my case for increased participation in grantmaking (even if you don't want to be a participatory grantmaker!)

Today is meant to be unlucky but we've been gifted with a new #KendrickLamar album so go figure!

Very excited to share, along with our amazing panel our progress and journey with the Community Steering Group at the Festival of Learning today🙌 London Funders #CommunitySteeringGroup #EndowmentFund #BarkingandDagenham

Hearing from Kemi Oloyede about the experience of being part of the community steering group: it was quite intimating at first but with support from Curiosity Society & Barking & Dagenham Giving - Everyone Included being part of the steering group provided an opportunity to have a say in investments #LdnLearnFest

. @gerauddv from Barking & Dagenham Giving - Everyone Included talking about how participatory grantmaking is both a process and an ethos. The process is deploying our funds but the question is always how we bake participation in our organisation further #LdnLearnFest

Great to speak @Renaisi's community of practice alongside Ngozi, who is part of Barking & Dagenham Giving - Everyone Included's Community Steering Group. We shared our experiences with participation as a facilitator and local decision-maker & the lessons we learned renaisi.com/2022/05/17/pow…

Can you believe it's 5 days to Giving Week? Neither can we! There's "Youth's Wellness & Pampering Event" on Wednesday, "Cricket for families" on Thursday, to "Football" on Friday! Check out our Giving Week webpage: bdgiving.org.uk/giving-week-20… #BDGivingWeek

In this week's #BDGivingNote, our Learning and Participation Manager Cameron (Cameron Bray), talks us through all they've learned whilst facilitating a community-led investment approach for the Community Endowment Fund. Check out their thoughts here: bdgiving.org.uk/news/bd-giving…

Such a lovely time chatting to people about the power of participation in many different places 😍 (I make a small appearance at the end in lilac)

Had this in my head for a long time – very glad to have had the chance to get this written out. #Participation is scary but, with the right preparation, we can make it less so for everyone involved.

We'd like to establish pilots for shared due diligence. Why? It costs charities £900m p.a to apply for funding- sharing due diligence is one way to save applicants & assessors time and money. Read more ➡️shorturl.at/cdeCD and help us shape it @londonfunders members!

After a summer pause, we're back with our #BDGivingNotes. Join Cameron Bray as they talk us through their appearance in our upcoming podcast series. Nine Miles East, launches next week and tells the story of the GROW Fund. Read more: bdgiving.org.uk/updates/bdg-no…

While paying people for participation is novel to many, the practice is just a little bit older than you might think. Our Head of Learning and Participation, Cameron Bray, explores some ancient participatory practices in the latest #BDGNote... bdgiving.org.uk/updates/bdg-no…