#LondonPics 22 Rare photo outside zone 1 - sunset at Mill Hill Broadway station

#LondonPics 21 I've visited lots of old buildings with heraldic shields in stained glass. I often wondered if they replaced whole windows to add new coats of arms. Here at Barnard's Inn Hall you can see the blank shields that were built in but never used. First blank ones I've seen.

#LondonPics 20 Mansion House ceiling. Photo doesn't do it justice. Much more impressive in real life

Tell me it's @opencity-uk.bsky.social Open House London week without telling me it's Open House London week.... Walked 100km on walks and visits so far, before my volunteering shifts today and tomorrow. Still lots of places you can visit this weekend without a booking programme.openhouse.org.uk

#LondonPics 19 We are lucky to have a range of historic architecture in London in civic and religious buildings that still exist today, but I'm always in awe of this Tudor house in Smithfield which survived the Great Fire of London and much more over the last 400+ years.

#LondonPics 18 Fitzrovia Chapel. A hidden gem - took me ages to find it in a square surrounded by new buildings. Unimposing Victorian red brick on the outside, but gothic revival with golden mosaics on the inside. Worth a visit

#LondonPics 17 Pigeons in Oxford Street preparing for their uprising. Weirdly still and silent

#LondonPics 16 After the rain. Tranquility of the Regent's Canal on a Sunday morning in the middle of the bustling town

#LondonPics 15 WWII stretcher built into a wall as a trellis on a 1950s housing estate in Bethnal Green - although the plants have died on this side of the wall. Shadows of the war are seen all over London in the damage, architecture and features, but sometimes hidden unless you take time to look

#LondonPics 14 Bluebell Wood, Epping Forest Love that there are things like this in London

#LondonPics 13 Pixie House on a tree stump in Goswell Road a few years ago. I often say people should look up to see London's hidden gems and quirks, but in this case it was looking down that brightened my day!

#LondonPics 12 Roosevelt and Churchill on Bond Street not keeping required distancing during the pandemic lockdowns

#LondonPics 11 First sunrise of the new year over the Thames - with the shadows of the Shard, London Bridge and Tower Bridge

#LondonPics 10 Italian fete and celebrations in Clerkenwell after the Festa Della Madonna del Carmine (Procession of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) - a historic procession which dates back to the 1880s

#LondonPics 9 Another Boxing Day picture with Lime bikes and Christmas trees strewn on roads and pavements

#LondonPics 8 Barbican at sunset on Boxing Day. I love the Barbican - an oasis in the city. #NoFilter

#LondonPics 7 You never know what you might find in London. Turned a corner in Clerkenwell a few years ago to find piles of coffins and skeletons in the road - and it wasn't even Halloween

#LondonPics 6 There are still places in London with real gas lamps. This is at the Old Sessions House in Clerkenwell Green. It was the court where Oliver Twist was taken to the magistrate. Well worth a visit to this Grade II 1780's constructed building.

🗞️ Labour is STILL refusing to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Read this great piece by @thecanaryuk.bsky.social : www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/09/04/labour-two-child-benefit-cap-news/

#LondonPics 5 Eurostar coming in to St Pancras alongside the canal boats in the St Pancras Basin. New and old Fast and slow Tracks and water

#LondonPics 4 View of St Paul's Cathedral, City of London, and beyond from Level 42 of the Cheesegrater - the Leadenhall Building

#LondonPics 3 This is an interesting one. It is the beautiful ceiling of the top floor of Lillywhites in Piccadilly Circus - once a glorious art deco ballroom, but now a sports shop. You've probably been in there - but did you look up?

#LondonPics 2 View of St Paul's from the reflection garden at 25 Cannon Street #NoFilter but annoyingly cropped in the app...

#LondonPics 1 I've been off social media for a while, but I've set myself a challenge of posting 30 pictures of London in September. To start things off, here is the St Pancras clock tower earlier in the year #NoFilter

I've written an article about the hidden cost of AI for charities and the unseen battle against bots and scrapers impacting operations and finances - including some of the impact on @360giving.org I welcome your thoughts - I am not hearing others talking about this www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden...

Cat vs printer - which is reliable? (by Lynn Miclea)

I've written an article about the hidden cost of AI for charities and the unseen battle against bots and scrapers impacting operations and finances - including some of the impact on @360giving.org I welcome your thoughts - I am not hearing others talking about this www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden...

We've sent out our August newsletter!🗞️ Featuring: 🎂 Celebrating 10 years of open grants data 📑 Our 24-25 Annual Report 📊 The updated Grants to Individuals Dashboard 🖐 Upcoming workshops and events Read the latest issue and subscribe: us10.campaign-archive.com?u=216b8b9262... #OpenGrants #OpenData

Great new piece in the @bigissue.com from @endchildpoverty.bsky.social on ending the two child limit on benefits www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Very sad to hear of the passing of Dame Stephanie Shirley at the weekend - entrepreneur, philanthropist and campaigner. I had the fortune to meet 'Steve' several times in my career - a truly inspiring pioneer. If you don't know about her, please watch her Ted Talk www.ted.com/talks/dame_s...

🤔Want to know how to share your grants using the 360Giving Data Standard? Take a look at our Complete Guide to Publishing, which covers the three key stages of the publishing process: 1️⃣Planning 2️⃣Preparing 3️⃣Publishing Read the guide 👇 standard.threesixtygiving.org/en/latest/gu...

🎶 Have a go at singing or brush up on vocal techniques this summer with London City Chorus and guest choral directors. Open to all but must book in advance. £10 each or £25 for all 3 workshops. www.eventbrite.com/cc/summer-vo...

This week @360giving.org celebrates its 10th anniversary. The organisation promotes open, effective and strategic grant-making. The 360Giving platform allows us to openly publish our grants data to assist with analysis and inform strategy and collaborations.

So proud of my team and everything that has been achieved over the last decade!

ICYMI: UKGrantmaking 2025 - the definitive annual publication on grant funding in the UK launched last week! Head to the website where you can explore the data, find commentary and analysis from @360Giving.org and our partners, and much more.. 📊 www.ukgrantmaking.org

🤔What do you know about Community Foundations, who made grants worth almost £200m in 2023-24? Made in partnership with @ukcf.bsky.social, the Community Foundations section of UKGrantmaking 2025 can tell you about their location, scale and types of support⬇️ www.ukgrantmaking.org/trusts-and-f...

Find out about Trusts and Foundation grantmaking in UKGrantmaking’s latest edition 🔹12% increase in Trust and Foundation grantmaking compared to previous year 🔹Over £8.2bn in grantmaking in 2023-24 Learn more, including @acf.org.uk reflections and share⬇️ www.ukgrantmaking.org/trusts-and-f...

Word of the Day: HYPERNORMALISATION - the state of a society where people continue to live according to rules that they know are not actually working.

Latest edition of this annual report on UK grant-making. Loads of data to play with and some helpful analyses by contributors from different perspectives. Draws on data published on 360 Giving's platform AND additional research to create the most comprehensive & up to date picture we have.

The new edition of UKGrantmaking is out 💡 The definitive annual publication on grant funding in the UK, it has data on £23bn worth of grants in 2023 to 2024 from over 14,000 grantmakers. Explore the data: www.ukgrantmaking.org

🎉 It's here! I'm so proud of the work that my team and partner organisations have done on this. It looks simple, but it is a massive undertaking. Now with even more data and insights, and a new narrative section that takes a deep-dive into current issues. Let me know what you think!

If you are a member of @londonfunders.bsky.social then come to a workshop I'm doing on Wednesday with the @360giving.org first presentation on the findings from the latest edition of UKGrantmaking.org which is launching this week. Book now: festivaloflearning.londonfunders.org.uk/programme/se...

Do you work with women and young people in Middlesbrough? Be sure to register for this event with @turn2us.bsky.social, Buttle UK and the Smallwood Trust about the future of our programme for tackling gendered and child poverty in Middlesbrough. 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/townhall-p...

Are you a funder who wants to help make grantmaking more equitable? The DEI Data Standard is a framework to help monitor the equity of your funding. Learn more at our free introductory workshop! Online, 6th May - learn more and book ⏬ www.360giving.org/support/?eve...

We need to talk... @360giving.org has published my new blog. It's a topic I feel deeply about: the often-overlooked power dynamics within data itself. I've been reflecting on how power plays out in grantmaking and the significant part data plays. What do you think? www.360giving.org/2025/04/30/p...

Check this out - loads of interesting sessions - including the first presentation of UKGrantmaking 2025 by @360giving.org!

As part of our commitment to being open and transparent we work with 360Giving to publish where all our grants are awarded. It will help groups, fund holders and researchers understand the causes we fund and the areas we support. See our info: ⬇️ www.dorsetcommunityfoundation.org/who-we-help/...

Are you a funder who wants to help make grantmaking more equitable? The DEI Data Standard is a framework to help monitor the equity of your funding. Learn more at our free introductory workshop! Online, 6th May - learn more and book ⏬ www.360giving.org/support/?eve...

Do you want to find out more about what’s in the 360Giving data? Look no further than our data summaries on 360Insights! Check out our interactive visualisations and more⬇️ insights.threesixtygiving.org #DataViz #OpenData #OpenGrants

Leadenhall Market: An Architectural Wonder In the heart of the City of London, tucked between gleaming glass skyscrapers and frantic financial dealings, lies Leadenhall Market: a place where history and commerce have been dancing an elaborate waltz for over 700 years. It’s a market with—thanks to…