Recent Blog Posts

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?

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.

Other Articles

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.

AI Tools for Grassroots Groups

7 AI tools for grassroots movements (Plus prompts to help you find grants!)

How Funders Can Support Collaboration: Plymouth Octopus

A guest blog on funding collaboration from POP.