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Paying People Fairly: Building Trust and Equity

The Haunted Handbook: Demystifying Governance & Risk Management

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How Grassroots Groups Are Countering Far Right Movements

The rise of far right movements is being met by powerful community resistance. Explore our list of organisations fighting hate and building solidarity from the ground up.

Overcoming Barriers, Sparking Change: What have Microgrants helped to achieve?

This blog shares the outcomes of some of our UMI Fund grantees projects, the challenges that they faced, whether they would apply again and advice for future applicants.
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Paying People Fairly: Building Trust and Equity

How Grassroots Groups Are Countering Far Right Movements

The rise of far right movements is being met by powerful community resistance. Explore our list of organisations fighting hate and building solidarity from the ground up.

The Social Change Nest Timeline

How The Social Change Nest came to be - Our origin story.

Risky Business at Marmalade

On Wednesay 2nd of April 2025 we ran our event “Risky Business?: An event for funders to explore risk in funding” at Marmalade, the fringe festival happening in Oxford every year during Skoll World Forum.

BRINGING THE SYSTEM – The role of fiscal hosting in place work

People shouldn't have to come to where the system lives, we should bring the system to them

The 3 Biggest Myths About Funding Grassroots Movements (And Why They’re Wrong)

Many funders want to support grassroots movements, lived experience leaders, and community-led initiatives, but long-standing myths often hold them back.