Mark

Coming from a place of absurd and unwarranted privilege, he has been funding progressive projects with varying levels of systemic critique for about 30 years, sometimes individually and sometimes as part of the Network for Social Change. Participatory grantmaking seemed to him to be the right way forward, so he got involved with Edge Fund in 2012 and Bristol Redistro in 2019. Once, activism and grantmaking took up equal time, but now it’s more about the grants. It’s also about planting (and sometimes singing) in unauthorised places, as well as a long list of pursuits – swimming, tai chi, burying his head in the fur of his dogs etc. – designed to keep him afloat in stormy times.

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