Recent Blog Posts

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

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
A large group of happy children gather under a set of yellow swings, with the architect and project leader, 17 year old Amara, stood infront

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.