Peter Grant

Dr Peter Grant is one of the UK’s leading practitioners in public and charitable funding. After working in the arts he was Director of an inner-city youth charity for eight years. On the commencement of the National Lottery he moved to Sport England where he devised the first Lottery programme to favour areas of deprivation and was one of the architects of Awards for All. As Director of Operations at the New Opportunities Fund between 1999 and 2005 he developed and delivered over £4.5 billion of funding programmes.

Peter then devised the world’s first full masters-level programme in grantmaking and philanthropy at Cass Business School where he is academic leader of the Philanthropy, Grantmaking and Social Investment, Charity Governance, Understanding the Voluntary Sector and Business and Society programmes. He has published widely on philanthropy, CSR, and history (notably the period of the First World War). His definitive book 'The Business of Giving: The theory and practice of philanthropy, grantmaking and social investment' was published in 2011. Peter has also written the definitive study of charity during the Great War, 'Philanthropy and Voluntary Action in the First World War' which was published in 2014. His latest book 'National Myth and the First World War in Popular Music' came out in 2017.

Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, trustee of the DHL Foundation and of the Amy Winehouse Foundation, former Chair of the Voluntary Action History Society and President of Kennington Cricket Club.

Peter's research and consultancy clients include government departments and charitable foundations. Past consultancy work has included the involvement of charities and public bodies in the London 2012 Olympics; the operation of parole processes in England and Wales and global senior management training for BP. Recent clients include the The Prince's Charities and the Cabinet Office for whom he has developed the training programme for government grant making.

Qualifications

PhD, BA and MPhil.

Fellowships

Fellow (FRHistS), Royal Historical Society, Mar 2016 – present

Memberships of Committees

• Trustee and Chair of Governance Sub Committee, Amy Winehouse Foundation, Jun 2013 – present
• Trustee, DHL (UK) Foundation, Feb 2011 – Sep 2017
• Chair, Voluntary Action History Society, 2010 – 2013
• Committee Member, Voluntary Action History Society, 2005 – 2014

Memberships of Professional Organisations

• Trustee, Amy Winehouse Foundation, 2013 – present
• Trustee, DHL (UK) Foundation, 2011 – present

Expertise

Primary Topics

• Business History
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Management
• Operations Management
• Public Sector Management
• Risk Management
• Voluntary Sector Management

Additional Topics

• Business Ethics
• Economic History

Industries/Professions

• artsleisure/recreation
• management consulting
• media
• music
• non-profit & voluntary sector
• public sector
• sports

Geographic Areas

• Americas - North
• Australia & Oceania
• Europe
• Middle East

Research Topics

Voluntary Action History

Especially during the First World War

Popular Culture and History

Especially relating to music and the First World War

Business processes involved in social investment

Place-based Regeneration Projects

Books (3)

• Grant, P. (2016). National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-60138-4.
• Grant, P. (2014). Philanthropy and voluntary action in the First World War: Mobilizing charity. ISBN 978-1-315-89021-0.
• Grant, P. (2011). The Business of Giving. The Theory and Practice of Philanthropy, Grantmaking and Social Investment. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-33679-7.

Chapters (8)

• Grant, P. (2017). Popular Music Since 1958. In Einhaus, A. and Baxter, I. (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Grant, P. (2017). From Brel to Black Metal: The First World War in Popular Music and Music Videos. In Higbee, D. and Cohen, D. (Eds.), Teaching Representations of the First World War (pp. 284–292). New York: Modern Language Association. ISBN 978-1-60329-304-4.
• Grant, P.R. (2016). Governance, Strategy and Good Grantmaking. In Harrow, J., Jung, T. and Phillips, S. (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Philanthropy London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-78325-5.
• Grant, P. (2016). The Gospel According to St Wilfred. National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music (pp. 203–226). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-60139-1.
• Grant, P.R., Palmer, P. and Lloyd, S. (2014). Capitalism in Crisis: Lessons from the Voluntary Sector. In Haynes, K., Murray, A. and Dillard, J. (Eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility: A Research Handbook Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-78171-8.
• Grant, P. and Hanna, E. (2014). Music and Remembrance. In Lowe, D. and Joel, T. (Eds.), Remembering the Great War London: Routledge/Taylor and Francis.
• Grant, P. (2011). Voluntarism and the impact of the First World War. In Hilton, M. and McKay, J. (Eds.), The Ages of Voluntarism: How we got to the Big Society London: OUP/British Academy. ISBN 978-0-19-726482-9.
• Grant, P. Learning to Manage the Army – The Army Administration Course at the London School of Economics 1907-1914. In LoCicero, M., Mahoney, R. and Mitchell, S. (Eds.), A Military Transformed? Adaptation and Innovation in the British Military, 1792-1945 Birmingham: Helion. ISBN 978-1-909384-46-0.

Journal Articles (5)

• Grant, P. (2018). PHILANTHROPY IN BRITAIN DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR. The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, XXXIX(1) .
• Grant, P. (2016). The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain during the First World War. POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY, 39(4), pp. 474–476. doi:10.1080/03007766.2016.1207408.
• Grant, P. (2008). 'An Infinity of Personal Sacrifice': The Scale and Nature of Charitable Work in Britain during the First World War. War & Society, 27(2), pp. 67–88. doi:10.1179/war.2008.27.2.67.
• Grant, P., Harrow, J., Minelli, M. and harris, I. (2006). Predicting the Effectiveness of Grantmaking. Strategic Change, 15(2), pp. 53–66. doi:10.1002/jsc.747.
• Grant, P. (2006). The Business of Giving. Alliance Magazine .

Editorial Activities (2)

• Public Management Review, Referee, 2011 – present.
• Voluntary Sector Review, Referee, 2010 – present.