Peter Grant

Dr Peter Grant is a teacher and author as well as one of the UK’s leading practitioners in public and charitable funding.

Peter worked for the National Lottery good causes before devising the world’s first full masters-level programme in grantmaking and philanthropy at Bayes Business School. At City University, London he also teaches on the history of charity and women in popular music.

He has published widely on philanthropy, history (notably the period of the First World War) and popular culture. His 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 and was followed by 'National Myth and the First World War in Popular Music' in 2017.

His debut novel 'The Bodleian Sequence' was published in 2022.

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