Blog: December 2024 news and a new job opportunity!

Written by Raji Hunjan, CEO

As the year draws to a close, our final blog of 2024 is a reflection on the past year at Tudor, as well as a chance to tell you about an exciting new job vacancy. It is also our opportunity to thank all our supporters as we continue on our transformation journey.

Head of Programmes new job alert!

For anyone thinking about a new role in 2025, we encourage you to consider the Head of Programmes role, newly designed to oversee our ambitious grant-making. We are genuinely open-minded about the right candidate and are looking for someone who is collaborative in their leadership style and shares our commitment to systems thinking and learning.

Staying Brave report

We are grateful to Stephen Bediako, Louise Mousseau and Fancy Sinantha for their work in helping us to reimagine what a total asset approach could be for Tudor in the context of a transformation. The report is an exploration of the themes that influenced our starting point, including our approach to governance, people practices, our partnerships and grant-making, as well as our investments.

Our understanding of racial justice

Earlier in the year, we published a blog that gave an insight into our understanding of racial justice in the context of our grant-making. Written originally as a reflection after the summer riots in the UK, it gives context to our vision of a world as it should be – one that is just and equitable, and where there are enough resources for everyone.

Announcing Derek Bardowell

October 2024 saw the departure of our long-standing Chair, Matt Dunwell and the appointment of Derek Bardowell as our new Chair. We are very excited about Derek’s leadership and the knowledge he brings to Tudor.

Celebrating our people

I would personally like to take a moment to acknowledge the team we are building here at Tudor and the commitment they are showing to deep learning and shifting the traditional power dynamics between funders and grantees. Our programmatic and operational staff are Eryl Foulkes, Anna Cooper, Mariam Radi, Daniel Seifu, Jemmar Samuels and Rosie Hodsdon. Most recently we welcomed Tim Nicholls as our new Head of Finance. Priya Cinar has been with us for the whole year on secondment, and has been phenomenal in developing our People and recruitment practices. Nina Kowalska has worked with us over the year as a consultant, providing us with additional communications and leadership capacity. In addition, we are joined by Jonny Matfin as our very own resident historian who is working on a retrospective look at Tudor’s history. I am humbled and grateful for all I have learned from each and every one of our team.

Wishing you all a joyful festive season and restful end to the year.