Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

We're hosting a pre-application Q&A webinar on 23 September 2024 for organisations interested in applying to Esmée for support. This webinar will help you to understand whether it's worth investing time in applying to us. You’ll hear from Esmée staff who will share more about our application process along with what we’re looking for and what we consider when making decisions. However, we plan to spend most of the time answering as many questions as we can. ➡ Learn more and sign up: https://lnkd.in/e7HmYiRF Please note: we are planning another Q&A webinar focusing on our funding priorities towards our aim for Creative, Confident Communities later on in the Autumn. We'll share more details once available.

Is there a better way to end institutional racism? The Alliance for Racial Justice is a collaborative network of organisations working across systems to eliminate racial inequality in England. It seeks to provide a strong, strategic voice and hold the government and public bodies to account on their legal duty to tackle racism and encourage these bodies to become anti-racist.     On 2nd September at 12pm, the Alliance is launching their first report, which looks at how UK institutions can do better to challenge and end institutional racism, with a focus on reforming the #EqualityAct. Register online: https://ow.ly/HZXG50T50rQ

🚀 BIG NEWS! We're thrilled to announce that we have received a generous grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to elevate our FUEL Funding Programme! 🌟 Designed by young people, decided by young people, FUEL offers grants up to £750 for 18-30-year-olds to tackle social issues that matter most. With this three-year grant, we will be co-designing with our young people and community, innovating and developing a new network of organisations and funders to: * Enhance sustainability * Strengthen foundations * Drive change in the funding sector Our Director Andreea Chelaru says, "We're excited and grateful for this investment, which will help us champion the voices of minoritised young people and inspire positive societal change." Read more on our blog here to find out more about our plans for FUEL over the next 3 years 👉 https://lnkd.in/ez5KngZn 🌍✨

"New report 📢 Immigration Raids: An Antomy of Racist Intimidation Following the Government's announcement that it is ramping up raids and removals, our new report shows #ImmigrationRaids are racist intimidation. Co-authored with academics Monish Bhatia and Jon Burnett, we dissect the secretive and opaque nature of Immigration Enforcement’s intelligence gathering, guidance on multi-agency operations and police cooperation. In addition, we have found raids have a disproportionate impact on racialised communities and act as a method to divide or intimidate migrants and People of Colour while making millions for the #HomeOffice in the process. As politicians signal that raids are likely to increase, it is vital we stand up and send a clear message to the State: our communities do not consent to raids. Read our #HostileOffice report here: https://buff.ly/3XHGbAd We are also launching a new Reporting Tool to report and log immigration raids in your areas. This will serve as a tool to log immigration raids in your local area and we will soon be publishing a map tool alongside this. Stay tuned 📻 Access the reporting tool here: https://buff.ly/4cA86rt

We're really excited to be supporting Farm491's new Challenge Prize series, which aims to encourage and support companies fostering innovation to improve our natural world. Farm491 has supported over 200 food and farming start-ups and SMEs with its flexible incubation model. This challenge prize fund has the potential to really amplify impact and we're thrilled to be working with them on it. Learn more about the first challenge: https://lnkd.in/ehmydP_X And please share 🙏

📢 Great opportunity to join us as a Race Equity Associate We're building a pool of Race Equity Associates, with expertise in YEF's sectors #ChildrensServices #Education #Health #Neighbourhoods #Policing #YouthJustice #YouthSector with focus on the prevention of children's involvement in violence. Learn more and apply: https://buff.ly/3N27dy4

Huge congrats to the six fab collections awarded a grant through the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund with Museums Association 🎉 They include independent, local authority and national museums further developing their participatory practice and addressing societal issues: ⭐ The Centre For Computing History, for “Broken Tech: Broken Earth”, a participatory project with local communities to explore the environmental and societal impacts of the computing technologies celebrated in the museum’s collections. ⭐ 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 (Herefordshire Council), for “Revealing Our Roots: Unearthing Common Ground”, a community engagement project to reinterpret the Herefordshire Hoard through working with marginalised and underrepresented communities across the county. ⭐ National Museums Liverpool, for “Cuerpos del Tiempo (Bodies of Time)”, a partnership project with Luma Creations to work with the Latin American community in the north west of England to shape the reinterpretation of the Latin American collections, beginning with the redisplay of the Mixteca Codex. ⭐ 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺, to research and review colonial and other world collections with members of communities from the countries where the collections originated. ⭐ Orkney Islands Council, to boost core hours to re-engage with Orkney’s geographically harder-to-reach communities and facilitate community led outputs. ⭐ 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗿𝗮𝘆 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲, to transform collections, interpretation and exhibition practices to make the museum more representative of audiences and local communities and recruit a specialist curator to lead on decolonisation of its collections. The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund supports a range of projects that bring collections closer to people. Learn more about the fund and how to apply for the Autumn round ➡ https://lnkd.in/e2ZFGW5j 📅 Applications close on 16 September.

The UK Fund from The National Lottery Community Fund is looking to fund projects that help bring diverse communities together. And from July 2024, they're also looking to fund projects that help children and young people use their voice to influence change 🗣 Learn more about the Fund: https://lnkd.in/emewT2hJ They have recruited a team of Youth Voice Advisors, who will work with their funding teams to help design and shape the decisions that affect young people and their communities 🙌

#WeNeedAnswers Join us today, Monday 12th August. Please like and share this post so that individuals and groups can attend and be part of this important discussion. An emergency online community conversation will take place online on Zoom on Monday 12th August. We have a fantastic line up of experts and Guest Speakers who will be engaging us in important interactive conversations. 👉 Join in. Register now on Eventbrite. Please like and share this post so that individuals and groups can convene and be part of this important discussion. The full statement from Yvonne Field is on the Ubele website https://lnkd.in/eCjgBPdy #community #communityconversations #blackbritain #muslimcommunity #marginalisedgroups #antiracism #equity #equakity #inclusion #blackbritush #asiancommunity

"Legitimate concerns" about migration are thinly veiled racism. Migrants are being blamed for the Government’s austerity policies, amongst other claims that migrants are “stealing your job” or “invading your country”. This language of “legitimate concerns” of the ‘average Brit’, using an imagined White working class figure, from politicians also allows them to distance themselves from the racist violence, despite the mobs using rhetoric and slogans of the current and former governments. They position racism (and racist violence) as grassroots/community-led, rather than originating from the top. Ultimately, anti-migrant violence (both rhetorical and physical) and Islamophobia have been separated from racism. When these forms of oppression are not seen as racist, it allows them to become normalised. It means people can say they have “legitimate concerns about migration” with impunity and no fear of being called racist. When you start ‘legitimising’ concerns about migration you are enabling racism and echoing the far-right. Read more: https://buff.ly/3LSEKK5 #Racism #Islamophobia #Migration #FarRight #WordsMatter