Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

🌟 2023 was Esmée's highest ever funding year, totalling £73.3m 🌟 We provided £57.3m in grants, which includes £48.3m in 227 main grants, and £7.4m for a Cost of Living Award to many of the organisations we support. Our work using social investment as a mechanism to support new impact-first business and investment models has grown to £12.9m, the most we have ever approved in one year since our first investment in 1999. We also made two new impact investments, totalling £2m. We updated our Investment Policy Statement, creating dual objectives for our portfolio going forward: financial return and sustainability. This recognises both the future risks of unsustainable investments but also the future opportunities in emerging and sustainable business models. "One of the main privileges as a Foundation is our ability to learn from and work alongside the very best of people, communities and organisations dedicated to economic, social and environmental justice. We can provide enabling or catalytic support, we can absorb some of the risk and we can help in amplifying their work, but the expertise, bravery and commitment is theirs." Learn more in our Annual Report and Accounts for 2023, which gives an overview of our funding, investments and operations: https://lnkd.in/egtHZ2qR Huge thanks to all the brilliant organisations we worked with last year ❤️ including Civic Power Fund Entelechy Arts Feedback The Advocacy Academy GMCVO JustRight Scotland Kinship The For Baby's Sake Trust Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse Committee on the Administration of Justice The Justice Together Initiative The Voice of Domestic Workers The Baobab Foundation Do it Now Now Voice4Change England SharpFutures Place Matters COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP KNOWLE WEST Nudge Community Builders Action for Race Equality Open Seas Spey Catchment Initiative CIWEM (The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management) Sussex Bay Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK) Ooooby The Decelerator Sumerian Foundation LocalMotion

Brilliant to see 'Community right to buy' introduced as part of the English Devolution Bill 🎉 This will be transformational for communities by giving local people power to make the places where they live work better for them. Huge congrats to everyone involved in campaigning for this 🙌

This could make a huge difference to communities that have had to put up with neglected empty buildings for years. Proud to be part of the We're Right Here campaign and so many networks across the country that have been calling for this. We're ready to show what a difference this can make in #Plymouth alongside Plymouth Culture, Plymouth Social Enterprise Network, Plymouth Octopus POP ideas and others. Thank you to all the brilliant national funders, networks and advocates that listen to communities like ours, bring voices together and make change happen. Success is in the detail, and the change that actually happens as a result. Let's keep going! Power to Change Platform Places Co-operatives UK Local Trust Locality The Architectural Heritage Fund Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

We are delighted to introduce the three members taking part in our 'Members in conversation with ACF' session at the #ACFLeadersForum24: 🌟 Sally Byng, chief executive of Barnwood Trust 🌟 Nezahat Cihan, chair of Cripplegate Foundation 🌟 Josh Cockcroft, data lead of Esmée Fairbairn Foundation They will be joined on stage by ACF’s chief executive, Carol Mack, to explore how foundations can rise to the key challenges of our times, including the climate emergency, and interlinked areas such as the cost of living crisis, funder collaboration and diversity equity and inclusion... to name but a few! This session has been co-designed by members, for members, incorporating the questions, topics and trends important to our community. Sally, Nezahat and Josh have gathered insights from members and networks to identify issues that merit sector-wide discussions. Don’t delay – secure your place today to be part of this important conversation: acf.org.uk/leadersforum24

📢 Calling on all organisations supporting women and girls 📢 Rosa Fund, the UK Fund for Women and Girls wants YOU to have your say! They are running a large-scale survey to understand more about the current issues that affect the sector and the women and girls it supports. They want to learn what the future of the women and girls sector might look like and what the opportunities and challenges might be. The results of the survey will help them to understand more about the sector and what it needs to be sustainable. It will provide essential information on funding, staffing and volunteers, demand and wider sector concerns. The survey takes 15 to 20 minutes to complete and you can pause it at any time and come back to it. ➡ Take the survey: https://bit.ly/3KQ3SAs 📅 Closing date: 24 July 2024

Agenda Alliance is glad to welcome Anneliese Dodds and Bridget Phillipson to their appointments as Minsiters for Women and Equalities. Whilst we’re disappointed that Labour has not appointed a standalone Secretary of State for Women and Girls, we look forward to working with them both to help meet the needs of women and girls at the sharpest end of inequality. Read our full statement on our website here: https://lnkd.in/egHvg4e7 #CallingSOS #womenandequalities #anneliesedodds #bridgetphillipson #womenandgirls #multipledisadvantage #SheVotes24 #womeningovernment

As part of our work as Learning Partners for The Listening Fund, we’ve been helping grantees reflect on the last 5 years of deepening their listening to young people. Using this evaluative process as a starting point, we’ve now published “Learning Journeys in Listening”: short, accessible and honest accounts of partners’ experiences in listening that we hope many organisations and practitioners can learn from. The accounts set out why the organisation set out to deepen their listening, what they tried and tested, what worked or didn’t, and the impact stronger listening practice had on their organisation and the young people they work with. You can find the first three in this series - from CAREFREE - FOSTERING INDEPENDENCE CORNWALL, The Foyer Federation and The Mix Charity - at the top of the Listening Fund’s resources page: https://lnkd.in/egwk3Epa And if you’re pressed for time, here’s a blog that summarises the lessons learned: https://lnkd.in/eKZFYwWn Please share the Learning Journeys with anyone you know who may find them useful, and let us know what you think of them! [The Listening Fund is funded by The Blagrave Trust BBC Children in Need The National Lottery Community Fund Esmée Fairbairn Foundation The Tudor Trust and led by Edd Fry. Sarah Rose led the evaluative processes with grantees on which the Learning Journeys were based.]

We're pleased to announce our Advisory Group members and co-chairs for a new phase of National Systems Change work to co-design specialist responses to #DomesticAbuse across Black African, Caribbean and Mixed Heritage communities, and South Asian communities, thanks to further funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, and Treebeard Trust. We are pleased to welcome two new Co-Chairs for the Advisory Group: Maria Duah and Meena Kumari. The Drive Partnership and Advisory Group members would also like to extend thanks to our Interim Chair Dr Olumide Adisa, PhD for her foundational work in establishing the Advisory Group forum. You can find out more about this work and the Advisory Group members here: https://lnkd.in/envUNtXK

On the eve of the general election, this film is an invitation to the next government to move towards the neighbourhood and street-led peoples retrofit manifesto that we need; the power of which is abundantly clear across the UK + beyond. Watch in full at: https://lnkd.in/exwDfYZD #RetrofitReimagined ACAN! Anthropocene Architecture School Built Environment - Smarter Transformation CIVIC SQUARE Dark Matter Labs Home Energy Action Lab WeCanMake ZERO CARBON HOUSE LTD Thirty Percy Foundation

Following a successful session last year, ACF's Social Impact Investors Group (SIIG) and The National Lottery Heritage Fund are back for another roundtable session looking at how best to support art, culture and heritage through social impact investing. The theme of this year's session is 'From recovery to resilience'. Please join us! https://lnkd.in/eX-tKp85 📅 18 July 🕚 11am-1pm 📍 Central London #SocialImpactInvesting #ImpactInvesting #Grantmaking #Philanthropy