Patrick O’Kelly

As Head of Funding Partnerships, Patrick leads our team maximising complementary opportunities for Resonance’s portfolio of social enterprise investees and potential investees. This includes:

• Delivering third party funding and re-granting programmes including our work as a grants delivery partner on the UK Government funded, Youth Investment Fund (YIF);
• Co-ordinating our involvement in investment frameworks and grants programmes for funds managed by third party organisations (such as as the Reach Fund, Energy Resilience Fund and the Community Builders Fund) and;
• Developing innovation programmes set up by Resonance enhance the impact of our own funds.

Patrick has over a decade experience working with private and public funders including for a national funder where he led on data and impact measurement improvements, strategy development and implementation, and managed teams delivering strategic and capital infrastructure grants programmes. He is an advocate for both data-informed and trust-based approaches to delivering funding programmes.

Patrick is based in York and, outside of work, is Chair of Trustees for York Travellers Trust. He also sits on the organising committee of the Grant Funders Network, an informal learning network of grants professionals.  His hobbies include playing the guitar and harmonica.