Winston Allamby, a Community Partner with our multiple disadvantage programme Fulfilling Lives, and someone with lived experience,considers why it's so difficult for people with lived experience to move into senior leadership positions. Read more

Peter Atherton, lived experience leader and founder of community interest company Community Led Initiatives, helped designed our Lived Experience Pilot programme. He explains the difference this made to his organisation’s funding journey. Read more

The lack of lived experience representation in positions of power in the sector points to apathy and a fear of changing and adapting service models to better suit the progressive nature of today’s society, says Comics Youth’s Managing Director, Rhiannon Griffiths. Read more

By working in genuine partnership, where all parties work to a common goal and support each other’s progress and challenges, we can provide better and more effective pathways out of homelessness. Read more

The National Lottery Community Fund’s Strategic Framework, People in the Lead, believes that with people in the lead communities thrive, and we’ve worked hard to think about how we reflect lived experience in our approach. Read more

Treating lived experience as narrative fuel for social change might well be effective in capturing the attention of the wider public, but it has the simultaneous effect of marginalising and pigeonholing the very voices that provide that fuel. Read more