Recent Blog Posts

Five Years Into Microgranting: The Importance of Funding Youth Climate Activism

How to Build a Social Innovation Framework: Lessons From Our Intern

A Social Innovation Framework is simply a step-by-step guide that gives you the questions you need to move a new idea forward, especially when you’re trying to address a social challenge.
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Paying People Fairly: Building Trust and Equity

The Haunted Handbook: Demystifying Governance & Risk Management

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Other Articles

How Microgrants are Powering Grassroots Climate Solutions and Fuelling Young Activists to Make Change

At The Social Change Nest, we’ve always believed that change doesn’t trickle down, it surges upward. And often, what sparks that surge is modest funding in the hands of the right people. Microgrants may be small in size, but when placed directly into the hands of community-rooted organisers, they become
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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.

Inside Our International Grant Distribution Work: Supporting Activists Across Borders

Our international grant distribution service is a partnership in which we transfer money from a granting organisation to recipients in other countries. The main purpose of this work is to enable international cooperation and support development efforts globally in areas such as education, healthcare, infrastructure, climate justice and environmental protection.
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An Interview with Aimee – Our Head of Community and Impact

We were SO lucky when Aimee joined us to cover the role of Head of Programmes, so lucky we just couldn't let her leave!
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Audible’s Future Stories Fund 2025

The Future Stories Fund is coming to the West Midlands