Kezia Jackson-Harman and Faye Pettitt

In this episode, we are joined by Kezia Jackson-Harman (Senior Project Manager - Renaisi) and Faye Pettitt (Coventry Women’s Partnership Manager). Our guests will be helping us explore how to tackle gendered poverty at local level through place-based change models.

Renaisi has been Smallwood Trust’s learning partner in our place-based work for more than a year now, and Coventry Women’s Partnerships is the first place-based network which Smallwood funded six years ago. Kezia will be sharing insights gained as our learning partner in our place-based work, whilst Faye shares what their partnership has learnt in implementing this approach in their work.

Here is a little bit about them:

Kezia is Renaisi’s Senior Project Manager in Place and systemic change. Her work across Renaisi’s portfolio of place-based and systems change projects includes facilitating local partner networks, managing, and delivering place-based research projects, and supporting the adoption of place-based and systemic change approaches within Renaisi. This includes acting as a learning partner to support, advise and build the learning capacity of six place-based networks targeting systemic change in women's poverty and youth unemployment, in programmes funded by Smallwood Trust and Youth Futures Foundation respectively.

Faye Pettitt has worked within third sector organisations for the majority of her career, initially within young people’s organisations as a JNC qualified Youth and Community Worker. Over the last

six years Faye has managed Coventry Women’s Partnership. Faye has worked strategically within her role as partnership manager at FWT - a centre for women, and with project partners CRASAC, Coventry Haven Women’s Aid, Central England Law Centre Coventry and Kairos Women Working Together, to establish Coventry Women’s Partnership from the vision and implementation of the project pilot, into a successful working model for women across the city.

You can find all released podcast episodes, and further reading materials on our ‘Learning Journey’ page, a dedicated platform for sharing what we have learnt in our efforts to tackle gendered poverty alongside our partners on the frontline.

Happy listening!

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