Recent Blog Posts

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.
Students of the Women Welfare Foundations, stood with signs that advocate for the climate

Other Articles

Telling Working Class Stories: A Q&A With The Working Class Collective

A conversation with Lisa McKenzie, founder of the Working Class Collective.

New Resources for Nature Groups from the People’s Plan for Nature

New resources to support community groups working on nature.

Our Approach To Risk In Practice

How our approach to risk works in practice at The Social Change Nest.

What is risk? Why does it matter?

If we’re going to solve some of society’s biggest challenges we need to think about risk differently.

Using a disused pub to feed the local community

An interview with Cambridge Community Kitchen.

Summer Sale Now On For Grassroots Groups

Calling all changemakers - we’re here to help.