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Strong Movements Start With Community

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Facing Fear with Trust: A Conversation on Funding & Community Resilience

What happens when the biggest risk isn't funding grassroots organisations, but failing to?

Why We’re Bored of Hearing About Place-based Organising Like it’s a New Hot Take

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Funding Change: Why Movements Need Flexible and Long-Term Funding

Why does traditional philanthropy rely so heavily on rigid, transactional controls, and how is that micro-management stifling real, systemic change?

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Strong Movements Start With Community

An illustration of a nest, filled with diverse characters that represent the SCN community

Facing Fear with Trust: A Conversation on Funding & Community Resilience

What happens when the biggest risk isn't funding grassroots organisations, but failing to?

Why We’re Bored of Hearing About Place-based Organising Like it’s a New Hot Take

An illustrated pink tree with birds on top and signposts directing you to different community buildings

Funding Change: Why Movements Need Flexible and Long-Term Funding

Why does traditional philanthropy rely so heavily on rigid, transactional controls, and how is that micro-management stifling real, systemic change?

A Week in Oxford: What Resonated at Marmalade Festival

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Rethinking Funding: Why Put Your Trust in Place-Based Groups

How local voices can be brought into decision-making, what it means to fund work that is rooted in communities, and why the impact of this work often reaches far beyond what is easy to measure.