It will be a year this month since Comic Relief, one of the largest and best-known charities in the UK, announced the appointment of Ruth Davison as its new grants director. In the ten months since she took up her new role, a lot has changed, including her job title.

“We have deliberately moved away from using the word ‘grant’, not because we’re not going to be making philanthropic grants at all, but because we felt that the word ‘grant’ was quite paternalistic,” she says.