Young H&F’s Funded Futures Forum

At the start of April, our Young Grantmakers awarded £50,000 across 11 organisations delivering meaningful work with young people in Hammersmith & Fulham. Yesterday, they met the people behind the applications at our first ever Funded Futures Forum.

Our newly form Funded Futures Forum is a space for open, trusting conversations between the young people making funding decisions and the grantees delivering the work.

Young H&F believes that good grantmaking is about building strong relationships, not about unfeeling transactions, so we're proud to follow Institute For Voluntary Action Research's eight principles of open and trusting grant-making, designed to help funders build strong, transparent partnerships.

One of those principles is to be open, so we decided to bring everyone into the same room. Grantees heard why their projects stood out, and Young Grantmakers had the chance to learn more about how these initiatives will work in practice and benefit their peers.

We're also really excited to give our Young Grantmakers the opportunity to visit the projects they've funded this summer. It’s such a powerful thing for young people to see their funding decisions come to life, and even more powerful for the sector to hear directly from the next generation of changemakers.