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New episode Ep. 1 · Funding & Economy
Inside a £5 Million Fund: Ugo Ikokwu on What It Takes to Back Systems Change
“Money isn’t neutral. Money takes the shape of whoever decides where it goes.” Ugo Ikokwu leads Trust for London’s £5 million Racial and Economic Justice Fund and sits on the National Lottery Community Fund’s England Portfolio Committee. He wants organisations to ask a simple question: what needs to change? In this conversation, he asks who gets the contracts, who controls the supply chains and who keeps the value the system creates, and explains what he looks for before backing systems chang...

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