National Lottery Community Fund

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In 2020 James Lee, Project Manager at the City Bridge Trust carried out a piece of research for the fund exploring how funders can be more accessible for disabled-led organisations.

The aim of the report was to explore how The National Lottery Community Fund can better support Disabled People’s Organisations, and explored the following themes:

1) As funders, we often talk about ‘meeting people where they are’ and ‘understanding & enabling the authentic voice’ of the people we work with. This is my authentic voice.

2) When using the words ‘disability’ and ‘disabled people’, we should constantly remind ourselves that these are just convenient ways of describing a collective group identity – and that they do not fully reflect the intersectional nature of individuals.

 
 

"Working with Rae is a great experience. Rae understood the brief and offered some great insights into how it could be elevated to deliver something really powerful.  Rae is a talented artist and has the ability to take complicated concepts and visualise them in a form that is attractive and accessible."

- James Lee, The City Bridge Trust, for NCLF   

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