Safeguarding when funding Lived Experience-Led Organisations: An Essentials Guide
This guide has been developed specifically for funders who partner with lived experience-led organisations (LEOs). The publication draws on insights from LEOs and funders who support such organisations.
The Guide covers:
- Key safeguarding risks relevant to lived experience-led organisations, recognising that they are not inherently riskier, but their risks may look different because of the lived experience nature of their people and their work.
- Explores safeguarding risks both within LEOs themselves, and through funder practice.
- Encourages funders to work with organisations to understand their concepts of safety and risk – there is no ‘one-size fits all’.
- How funder language, definitions, and funding structures can impact care, safety, and wellbeing.
- Explores care and safety in the grant cycle as well as in funders communications.
- Important considerations for funders to safely, ethically and effectively partner with LEOs.