Lola Chapman: When Helping Hurts — 3 Ways to Check Your Philanthropy Isn't Creating Dependency Instead of Dignity
What if the way you're giving is quietly doing more harm than good?
It's one of the most uncomfortable questions in the philanthropic space — and it's exactly the one Lindsey Frances and her guest aren't afraid to ask.
In this episode, Lindsey sits down with Lola Chapman — Chief Executive of Oxford Initiatives and Senior Area Director for Europe at One Collective, a global nonprofit working across 56 communities in over 40 countries. One Collective's mission is simple and radical: no one should be invisible, and everyone should have access to what they need — physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually.
Lola brings something rare to this conversation: not just expertise, but lived experience. Having grown up in Bradford in deep poverty — moving house 19 times before the age of 18, navigating abuse, addiction in the home and food insecurity — she knows from the inside what it feels like to be on the receiving end of help that heals, and help that humiliates.
This is a rich, generous and deeply thought-provoking conversation about what it really means to give well.
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