Narrative here.

 

My work in Philanthropy, Wealth and the Impact Economy over the last 7 years.

Employed Roles

Associate Director, Emerging Futures, Joseph Rowntree Foundation. 2021 - 2025. I was part of the founding team that designed, set up and stewarded the Emerging Futures programme in its first three years.

Associate Director, Kinship Fund, Paul Hamlyn Foundation. 2023 - 2025. I worked with the Trustees, CEO and a small team to scope out and design a new initiative and fund focussed - ‘Young people in the UK are well equipped, well accompanied and well resourced to face an unknowable future together -one that lays the foundations of hope for future generations too.’

Deputy Director of Innovation, Policy and Practice, The National Lottery Community Fund. 2018 - 2021. You can read about my portfolio of work at TNLCF here.

Strategy Roles

I continue to work with Arising Quo on the design and stewardship of the organisation’s wealth redistribution strategy.

I’m working with the Roddick family on different aspects of their Foundation and Family Office strategy. 

I sat on the original Design and Strategy Group for the Funders Collaborative Hub.

I worked with EarthPercent to design their funding strategy and set up their grant-making programmes.

I worked with Natural Resources Wales to redesign their funding strategy.

I was on the original Design Group for the Multitudes (now the Better Politics Foundation) helping it get started.

I worked with Client Earth to help design and set up their Innovation Lab.

I worked with the Earth Funding Lab in the early days of their strategic positioning.

Practice Roles

I write regularly for Alliance Magazine - a worldwide philanthropy and social investment magazine.

I designed and then Co-led a Field-building practice at Partners for a New Economy from 2022 - 2025.

I was Innovator In Residence at Impact on Urban Health Foundation. 

I ran the Foresight and Futures Community of Practice for the European Foundation Centre before they merged with Philea and went on to run a Practice lab for Transformative Philanthropy.

I worked with Local Motion, a place-based funder collaboration, the CEO’s and the Board members on aligning their governance, strategy and vision.

I brought my ‘conscious closure’ practice to work with the Shuttleworth Foundation so that they could develop a strategy and relational practice around bringing programmes and fellowships to an end.