Recent Blog Posts

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?

Other Articles

Building sustainable foundations to support the climate movement

We spoke to Climate Barometer about their work and fiscal hosting.

Empowering women through community bike rides

A Liverpool-based community bike ride project.

Adopting fiscal hosting as a route to more equitable giving

We chatted with Lankelly Chase’s Place Lead, Joe Doran, about fiscal hosting.

Saving a stately home for the local community

How a local community group helped to save a stately home in South London.

How fiscal hosting is helping facilitate participatory grantmaking

We chatted to a growing global collective dedicated to sharing knowledge around participatory grantmaking.

Pay-it-forward support collective for budding animal behaviour scientists

Chatting to Animal Behaviour Collective about their experience of fiscal hosting.