Our Funding
When the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation invested in Plymouth via POP, it did so with an explicit aim to create transformational change. The principles of participation and collaboration were at the heart of this. At the start, the aspiration was to spend as much of the funding within the sector as possible.
Several critical components have been identified for successful participation and collaboration:
- Openness and transparency in finances and decision-making.
- Shared ownership of finances helps everyone to feel they have a stake and promotes shared decision-making.
- Relational, communal sensemaking helps empower funded organisations to reveal the value of their work, reflect and grow through learning.
We hope you can see the strong themes of openness, transparency, trust building running through our funding. We are constantly learning and evolving what we do.
