Large charities are under growing pressure to rethink how they work with local communities. Matt Hyde, chief executive of Lloyds Bank Foundation, recently urged sector leaders to stop acting like “big, monolithic machines” and instead operate “more like a movement and more like a network”.
Hyde pointed to organisations like Macmillan and Mencap as examples of charities moving toward more community-led models — a shift he believes is key to remaining relevant in the years ahead.
But what does it actually look like to shift power in practice? Here are five approaches that large charities can adopt to start turning principle into action: