Our Team

Nairat Ali, TSIP

Nairat has delivered a range of learning and evaluation projects across her time at TSIP. She is currently delivering the learning partnership for City Bridge Foundations Anchor Fund. This role included initially designing and delivering a co-design process with a diverse panel of by and for VCS organisations to design what the fund should look like. Nairat co-led this process also supporting the reporting for these sessions. Now, Nairat works with colleagues at TSIP to deliver a learning partnership for thirteen funded organisations, with a wide range of learning needs. This includes convening spaces to collectively build a Theory of Change for the fund and to explore systems change thinking around individual and collective ambitions.This role also includes 1-1 evaluation support to give funded organisations the space they need to ensure they can deliver on funder reporting, and 1-1 comms support to platform and talk about our work to a wider audience.

Nairat seeks to amplify imagination in her work and practices, through using this approach to engage those who are, typically, at the margins of society. She has a strong understanding of the structural inequities that exist in and around us, and the limits to social mobility as a result of one’s intersecting identities. She’s keen to enable the possibilities of imagination to those who may see it as a luxury (read a blog here she wrote) – she sees this approach as a means to engage the voices and insights of marginalised individuals.

This is most observant in her role as Learning and Impact Lead at TSIP’s flagship project The Giving Lab, a participatory grantmaking fund that provides decision making power to local underserved communities. Through a critical lens that values equity and justice, she has provided research training around gathering impact data across the funded individuals/groups. Through experience, Nairat understands that these trainings are not a one-size fits all approach, and looks to lead with empathy whilst tailoring to specific and intersectional demands.