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 have spent so much time with her. The last time I saw her involved sitting around her bedside a week before she died drinking…

I’ve been having a lot of conversations over recent months about what collective accountability can and should look like. The Participatory Grantmaking Community has grown so quickly and organically and has created a wonderfully welcoming space for so many people over the globe. …

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 taken. Some of these things have been incredibly positive, others have been ‘character building’. I’m trying to blog a little more about it…

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 working mean that it is a part of my life (that is always there) but that doesn’t take up space in my brain. In…

Cameron Bray, Learning & Participation Manager at Barking & Dagenham Giving and Anne Shewring, Programme Director at Cripplegate Foundation and Islington Giving , reflect on their experiences with compensating people for their time spent on participatory processes. — Please note that this blog post is based on our own research and should not be considered as advice around benefits or taxation. We encourage people to do their own research and consult with a professional benefit advisor or accountant.

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 wrap-around support we are always just setting them up for failure. …

Questions for the the Future of Participatory Grantmaking How can we think about the Future of Participatory Grantmaking, what questions can we ask ourselves to reimagine what could be? What do we need to think about to frame our thinking and what should we be asking the community to push…

Yesterday was the first in a series of leanring events on participatory grantmaking to launch my Fellowship report — Grassroots Grantmaking Embedding Participatory Approaches in Funding. You can find the report and the other learning sessions at www.hannahpaterson.com. At the Participatory Grantmaking 101 session I did a reverse Q&A where…

The Deciding Together report draws attention to the fact that participatory grantmaking (PGM) is more than just grantmaking. It described PGM as both a power shifting ethos and a process that places the communities at the centre. Some might argue being involved in the process of PGM is where the…