The Festival of Learning 2026 Programme

The London Funders Festival of Learning is where the funding sector comes together to learn, share emerging practice, and build the collective understanding needed to act with greater clarity and purpose.

The London Funders Festival of Learning returns in 2026, built around three questions that have emerged repeatedly across our network: how funders can strengthen justice, solidarity and social cohesion in a time of rising division; how we build community wealth and power in a new age of devolution; and how we create a funding ecosystem that is more connected, data-driven and collectively responsive to what communities need.

Each strand is designed as a connected learning journey - sessions that build on one another and move from insight toward action. You're also welcome to follow a full strand or build your own programme around the sessions most relevant to your work.

Across two weeks, the Festival brings together panels, workshops, online sessions, place-based visits, film screenings, escape rooms and networking - a two-week programme designed to inform, challenge and connect.

Sessions in the programme

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