Lisa Basford

Strategic, values-driven leader with extensive experience designing, funding and delivering strategies that deliver social impact in the UK and internationally. My career spans grant-making, programme design, philanthropic partnerships, stakeholder engagement and story-telling with a strong track record of creating measurable change. Key areas of expertise include: • Grant-making & foundation strategy • Programme design, theory of change & measuring outcomes • Youth employment & transitions • Mental health and wellbeing • Digital inclusion & tackling disadvantage • Diversity and Inclusion • Field building & coalition development • Youth participation & co-design • Evidence & evaluation • Stakeholder engagement • Storytelling & narrative change • Governance, safeguarding & risk