The Learning Journey Fund is an innovative fund about ambition, sharing ideas, and having space to think and plan.
Last year, six individuals, staff members or volunteers, from charities based in Kent received funding to discover new insights and inspiration. The grant recipients visited and learnt from regional, national and international best practice, so they could plan their own next steps and share learning across the region.
At the end of the journey the grant recipients were asked to provide a blog or vlog on how they used a grant from the Learning Journey Fund.
You can read/watch them below.
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Rebekah Dawes - Kent Enterprise Trust
Rebekah shares her experience of receiving a grant from the Kent Community Foundation Learning Journey Fund and using it to organise a community project.
Kristina Stazaker - Communigrow
Supported by a grant from the Kent Community Foundation's Learning Journey Fund, Communigrow staff visited or interviewed staff from three comparable charitable institutions in the Southeast. The knowledge shared during these meetings informed the ongoing development of the Field School, Communigrow’s primary education output for young people.
Tasmin Maitland - Catching Lives
Catching Lives applied to the Kent Community Foundation Learning Journey Fund so that members of their client-facing team could visit other homelessness day centres, to see how other charities deliver this type of service and use this learning to reflect on what they do.
Liz Daone - Horsebridge Arts Centre
Horsebridge Arts Centre received a grant through Kent Community Foundation Learning Journey Fund to develop their income generation from their building and the activities they run within it.
Brigitte Orasinski - Strange Cargo
Strange Cargo used the Learning Journey Fund grant to research the ancient folklore traditions that exist across the British Isles. They brought this new knowledge to the Charivari Day carnival. Charivari Day is Strange Cargo's summer carnival. Since 1997 it has directly involved 20,000 children, young people and adults in creating costumes for a carnival parade that processes on foot through Folkestone.
