At the end of last year I stepped back from the Transformational Governance Stewarding Group after the best part of 2.5 years. …

There’s a fine line between endings and new beginnings — by Louise Armstrong and Nour Sidawi If you’ve ever struggled with having a thoughtful ending — of transitioning from one thing to another — this blog post is for you. This blog post isn’t written to give advice so much as it is to comfort and console and to lift…

Reflections and shifts in my role within the funding ecosystem After 10+ years of change making work — a recurring theme about where and how resources flow has persisted for me. I felt compelled to do this work as I really believe that the resources need to flow to the…

And what that means for me in 2023 Funding organisations have a critical role as catalysts for the big changes needed in this time. Which means paying attention to how funds are distributed and how funding organisations work matters. …

This is a piece that documents stages in a relational inquiry journey — in near time reflections on a real time / live inquiry. …

Lessons and reflections from 8 years of working on the Peckham Coal Line — Community work doesn’t neatly fit into boxes of well defined job descriptions that you might have as part of formal roles. Its influence spans the very intimate personal and professional and everything in between. I’ve been charting some of the many identities roles I’ve been doing in the work I…

Experiments with a collective appraisal process — Note: this blog has been in my drafts for 6 years, originally written in 2016! …

Writing as changemakers — I’ve had surprising urges to write over the last 2 years. But i’ve learnt that making time and space for writing is so hard and counter cultural for us as change makers who aren’t professional writers. I know I’m not alone as a change maker wanting more space to write…

This is the written transcript of a speech I gave at the New frontiers in funding, philanthropy and investment event and the Innovation in Philanthropic Practice panel in July 2022. …