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Chairs/facilitators: Rachel Laurence, Director, Programmes and Practice, New Economics Foundation, and Bonnie Hewson
Programmes Manager, Power to Change

Additional facilitators:
Jill Baker, Lloyds Bank Foundation
Caroline Broadhurst, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, The Rank Foundation Ltd.
Ella Smyth, Programmes and Partnerships Advisor, Co-op Foundation
Cathy Stancer, Lankelly Chase

Join this interactive workshop if you are either a funder or a place-based organisation interested in driving forward systemic change in place. Facilitated by Rachel and Bonnie, we will explore these questions together, and inform an ongoing discussion amongst place-based funders on how to strengthen and coordinate their impact as partners in the movement for community-led structural change. We are expecting representatives from Carnegie Trust, Esmée Fairbairn, Barrow Cadbury, the National Lottery Community Fund and Local Motion to be joining the discussions.

  • What kind of funding really supports communities to structurally change how their local economy works in the long term?
  • How do place-based organisations, in trying to strategically tackle this structural challenge from the ground up, currently work with funders?
  • What kinds of funding relationships and approaches work best for them?
  • How could foundations best collaborate to make use of their learning, influence and money to most effectively support people and organisations trying to achieve this structural shift in their place?

Rachel LaurenceRachel Laurence is a leading practitioner and thinker on Community Led Economic Development, local economic systems change and regional political economy. Her background is in designing and delivering large scale programmes, in community led economic development, local economic regeneration and prior to that, youth and community work and child poverty policy. She holds a Masters of Research in Social Policy.

As the Director of Programmes and Practice for the New Economics Foundation, Rachel ensures that NEF’s full programme of work is rooted within the lived experience of communities, embedded consistently in place, and designed and delivered effectively. She is also a board member for Red Pepper magazine.

Bonnie Hewson

Bonnie has worked at Power to Change since 2015 and has worked on a number of programmes in the organisation. She leads on the Empowering Places programme and oversees six of Power to Change’s nine Priority Places (Plymouth, Leicester, Grimsby, Wigan, Bradford and Hartlepool).

For the past decade Bonnie has worked with community-led projects and enterprises focused on community resilience. She has worked with charities, local authorities and small businesses across a number of sectors, including cultural heritage, the arts, environmental sustainability, and eco-tourism. She is currently a Trustee of Windmill Hill City Farm in Bristol and is a member of the Friends Provident Foundation Programme Advisory Group for Local Economies.

Jill Baker

Jill is the first Director of Development at Lloyds Bank Foundation; a role focussed upon helping charities thrive beyond the life of their grant, equipping them to be stronger and more sustainable. This involves looking at income diversification models, system change work in a number of towns and working collaboratively, both with Lloyds Banking Group staff and with other funders. With over 30 years’ experience of working in the charity, health and local authority sectors specialising in children’s social care, criminal justice and community development, Jill is a Churchill Fellow, a Trustee of the Community Foundation for Tyne and Wear and Northumberland, and also an NED of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust.

Caroline Broadhurst

Caroline has worked at the Rank Foundation since 2006 and has been Deputy Chief Executive since 2013. Rank’s interest in place goes back to 2002, and its team have worked with people and communities in Burnley, Blackpool, Corby, Hull, Dundee and Plymouth. Caroline is Co-Chair of the ACF Place-based Learning Network. She is a Clore Social Fellow (2012), a trained executive coach and an Action Learning Set Facilitator.

 

Ella Espinoza SmythElla has been working at the Co-op Foundation for three years, managing their Community Spaces funding programmes and trying to bring a grounded community work approach to all of their funds. Prior to working at the Co-op Foundation, she worked in community development projects in the UK and South America.

Ella has an MSC in Poverty and International Development. She also helps to run a Girlguiding group and does volunteer fundraising for TUSC Uganda.

Cathy Stancer

Cathy is a Director at Lankelly Chase, an independent foundation working in partnership with people across the UK to change the systems that perpetuate severe and multiple disadvantage.