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Hannah Paterson

Good Endings and New Beginnings

This year is a big year of change for me. I have left The National Lottery Community Fund after eight years in several different roles and…

5 min readAug 9, 2023

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6 leaves lay together in a line varying in colour from green through to yellow, orange and then red.

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Hannah Paterson

My Granny

My Granny passed away peacefully surrounded by family on the 20th of November. I feel so incredibly lucky to have known her so well and to…

6 min readDec 13, 2021

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Granny in her iconic blue wedding outfit that she wore to every grandchilds wedding

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Feedback with Love

I’ve been having a lot of conversations over recent months about what collective accountability can and should look like. The Participatory…

4 min readJul 12, 2021

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Hannah Paterson

Things that have happened to me because of my dyslexia

Lots of things have happened to me because I’m dyslexic, it is one of the key things that has shaped my life and the directions I have…

4 min readMay 21, 2021

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A banner made up of hundred of individually stitched red hexagons. In gold writting over the top it says Nothing About Us Without Us

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Hannah Paterson

Dyslexia

My dyslexia has been playing on my mind a lot over the last few months. Most of the time my coping mechanisms and alternative ways of…

3 min readApr 22, 2021

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Paying decision-makers

Cameron Bray, Learning & Participation Manager at Barking & Dagenham Giving and Anne Shewring, Programme Director at Cripplegate…

6 min readApr 1, 2021

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Putting Participation in Participatory Grantmaking by Khadra Aden

If we are doing Participatory Grantmaking by just inviting people to engage in the work that we do, in the way that we do it, without any…

4 min readFeb 9, 2021

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Putting Participation in Participatory Grantmaking by Khadra Aden

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The Future of Participatory Grantmaking — some questions to get you thinking

Questions for the the Future of Participatory Grantmaking

3 min readJan 27, 2021

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Questions for Funders to Reflect on

Yesterday was the first in a series of leanring events on participatory grantmaking to launch my Fellowship report — Grassroots…

2 min readJan 14, 2021

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More than just a Grant Decision

The Deciding Together report draws attention to the fact that participatory grantmaking (PGM) is more than just grantmaking. It described…

4 min readNov 7, 2020

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a cartoon depicting ‘it’s both a power-shifting ethos and a process that places the communities at the centre’

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Hannah Paterson

Hannah Paterson

Churchill Fellow exploring how communities can be more involved in decisions about where and how money for their communities is spent

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