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‘Citizen grantmakers?’ asks Luc Tayart de Borms

Charles Keidan 16 October 2013

This year’s conference of the UK’s Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) ended on a European note with a closing speech by Luc Tayart de Borms, managing director of the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF), a leading …


Unlikely partners? Aligning resources between grantmaking trusts and local authorities

Charles Keidan 15 October 2013

Participants at this well-attended breakout session at this year’s conference of the UK’s Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) were treated to an absorbing case study of collaboration between the Cripplegate Foundation and Islington Council. The …


Paradox or creative tension? The role of foundations in delivering public benefit

Charles Keidan 14 October 2013

The opening plenary set the bar high for this year’s Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) conference. The session featured stirring, insightful and complementary contributions on the changing role of foundations from Theo Sowa, Julian Corner …

Responding to the new normal: reflections on the ACF’s 2012 conference

Caroline Hartnell 15 November 2012

The opening plenary of the UK’s Association of Charitable Foundations’ 2012 conference, held in London on 7 November, was called ‘Financial crisis: responding to the new normal’. Responding to the financial crisis has been centre …

View from the bridge: ACF conference looks to challenging times

Caroline Hartnell 8 November 2011

The opening plenary of the UK’s Association of Charitable Foundations’ 2011 conference on 18 October was called ‘view from the bridge’. And the view was very much what we might have expected to see: what …