Lived Experience Leaders Movement
Lived Experience Leaders Movement (LEx Movement)
Our Centre is a radical new space for new ideas and collaborations to emerge and thrive. We move knowledge equity into action by working in partnership with LEx leaders, LEx-led organisations, and coalitions to generate innovative funding, learning, collaboration, and network development activities. Leaders, innovators, activists and more – who are designing and leading inspiring new ways of being, doing, and renewing the world we inhabit.
Knowledge Equity Fellowship
Knowledge Equity Fellowship
A ground-breaking new programme designed in partnership with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School, University of Oxford – to transform the systems change entrepreneurial field. Launched in October 2020, the programme is an innovative way in which business schools can attend to issues of equity, diversity and inclusion by connecting traditional learned and technical knowledge with lived experience – the knowledge of those directly impacted by unjust and inequitable systems.
2027 Programme
2027 Programme
With our partners Ten Years Time, Koreo and Northern Soul, we bring foundations and working-class communities closer together to improve decision-making in the UK philanthropic sector. At the heart of 2027 is a yearlong paid placement for talented frontline workers from working-class communities at a leading foundation or trust, running alongside a blended personal development programme.
2027 is a 12-month, salaried job and professional development programme, which gives talented people from working-class communities the tools to integrate and activate their leadership qualities in the UK’s funding sector. We want to help shift power so people with lived, learnt and practice experience can help funders make better and fairer decisions about where their funding goes.
National Leadership Programmes
National Leadership Programmes
Senior and experienced LEx leaders from across our network integrate lived, learned and practise expertise to lead their social impact work. Through our collective leadership model, we work in partnership with Clore Social Leadership Programme to co-create and co-deliver programmes for social leaders working across social sector spaces. Our summer 2020 programme reached over 150 social leaders in the Migrant & Refugee sector responding to COVID-19, including over 100 LEx leaders. And in early October 2020, we commissioned and launched a programme for 100 LEx leaders working across the UK Criminal Justice Sector.
Challenge and Change Fund
The Challenge and Change Fund
Working in partnership with The Blagrave Trust and a group of inspiring Young Advisers: Daze Aghaji, Jovan Nepaul and Chloe Deakin, we supported the design and development of the ambitious Challenge and Change Fund – aimed entirely at funding young people activating their experiences to challenge injustices in their communities, across the UK and the wider world. Our Centre continues to walk alongside the Blagrave Trust, its Advisers, and new and emerging partners on this exciting journey. To capture learning; support the systems change capacity of partners; and support the development of the Challenge and Change Network led by and for young change-makers.
Leaders with Lived Experience fund 2020
Lived Experience Leaders Fund
Members of our team have supported the design and development of the leaders with lived experience fund launched by a committed team at The National Lottery Community Fund. Established as a pilot in 2019, the fund is now in its second year supporting lived experience leadership. The 2020 Fund will support lived experience leadership to ensure lived experience plays a key role in shaping how communities move towards recovery and renewal in a post-COVID19 world. We continue to walk alongside grantee partners and TNLCF as a learning partner as part of a LEx research collective at EP:IC.