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Solidarity Fund Decision Panel – External Members & Philanthropy Reference Group Application Deadline 8/21/2025 Job Description The National Lottery Community Fund is recruiting up to three external members for its new Solidarity Fund Decision Panel. Working alongside Karin Woodley CBE (Chair), Ali Torabi from England Portfolio Development Team and National Lottery Community Fund’s Board member Danielle Walker Palmour, you will help shape and approve major awards of £500,001–£5 million and oversee portfolio learning and performance.Solidarity Fund – at a glanceLaunch: June 2025Annual budget: £25 m in 2025/26, rising to £50 m from 2026/27 (≥ 10 % of England portfolio) - until 2030Grant term: Flexible, core support for 5-10 years, £1-5 million per grantPurpose: Support long-term work that changes systems, is accountable to lived experience, builds power, strengthens solidarity and shares knowledgeYour contribution as a Panel member:- You will bring external insight, constructive challenge and sound judgement to decisions that help communities tackle poverty, discrimination and disadvantage at their roots. Alongside grant decisions, the Panel will advise on the Fund’s long-term stewardship and accountable governance, ensuring it remains an enduring resource for community-led change. The Panel meets up to four times a year, with short virtual briefings between meetings. Reasonable expenses are covered.Who we are looking forWe welcome applications from people who can:- Shape significant, multi-million-pound portfolios that resource organising and sustain long-term systems change.- Strengthen community power by placing people with lived experience in the lead and ensuring accountability runs both ways.- Cultivate knowledge - weaving research, practice and lived experience into insight that guides fairer policy and public understanding.- Guide the Fund’s long-range journey, bringing insight into how mission-driven capital can stay accountable, adaptable and robust over many years- Connect issues and sectors, recognising how deep-rooted challenges and exclusions intersect- Work collaboratively and reflectively, balancing risk and opportunity while modelling the Nolan Principles.- Offer clear, independent judgement and integrity, keeping every decision anchored in the Fund’s public purpose.A wider Philanthropy Reference GroupWe are also forming a Philanthropy Reference Group to share intelligence, test ideas and keep our work connected to wider practice. It will meet online twice a year and is unpaid. Please indicate if you wish to be considered for the Panel, the Reference Group or both.For an informal conversation or to request information in another format, please email.If you are excited about the opportunity to help communities drive lasting change, we would be delighted to hear from you. Location Based in England Working from Remote Remuneration Voluntary role How to apply Send a CV and covering letter (one page) to ali.torabi@.uk, telling us whether you are applying for the Decision Panel, the Reference Group, or both.Deadline: 23:59 on 21 August 2025Conversations will take place on 2nd September, with appointments confirmed by October at the latest. You will be signed out in seconds due to inactivity. Your changes will not be saved. To continue working on the website, click "Stay Signed In" below.#J-18808-Ljbffr