The Social Change Nest

Open Hour: Drop ins with The Social Change Nest
2025-11-26 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-28 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-25 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-03-25 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-27 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-06-24 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Join our monthly Open Hour – a space to bring your questions (and lunch), swap tips on how to best use your Open Collective page, and hear how others are getting along within the Social Change Nest community.
Online via Zoom, last Wednesday of the month, 12pm – 1pm BST/GMT
Register for an upcoming Open Hour now
These sessions are planned for groups who are fiscally hosted by The Social Change Nest and use the Open Collective platform to manage their money.

Building Blocks: Peer Lab
2025-11-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
To support and build on our ‘Building Blocks’ workshop series, we’ll be running a Peer Lab the week after each workshop. These labs will bring together a smaller group of changemakers, along with our experienced facilitators Mariama and Inderjit to take a deeper dive, put new skills into practice, and debrief on each subject covered. That includes:

Making money – finding creative and reliable ways to resource your work.
Social business models – what we can learn from social enterprise models while staying true to community values.
Team work – strengthening collaboration and team practices.

The Lab is a cohort-style learning space: the same group attends all three peer labs, creating continuity, trust, and space to share your experiences along the way. By registering, you are committing to join us for Peer Labs on:
October 29th, 12:00PM – 1PM
November 12th, 12:00PM – 1PM
November 26th, 12:00PM – 1PM

The Peer Labs have been designed to encourage further learning and practical use of the knowledge you’ve gained from attending the Building Blocks workshops. As a whole, Building Blocks is a free six week course, with 3 Workshops and 3 Peer Labs. If you attend each Wednesday, you’ll gain a holistic understanding of these foundational skills.

Please register to join us here.

Personal burnout: new perspectives on pushing the boundaries
2025-12-01 09:30 - 17:00 | Hammersmith Quaker Meeting House, 30-32 Bradmore Park Road, London, W6 0DT, United Kingdom
Are you feeling overwhelmed in the face of your work challenges?
Is your health suffering?
Are you struggling with inner conflict, between your personal needs and those of the people whom you support?
Do you have the sense of not being good enough?
Would you like more resources to support you?
This is an in-person, systemic constellation workshop to support change-makers in managing overwhelm and burnout. The workshop will include:
– Acknowledging the reality of the challenges we face
– Exploring what is behind our conflicts and stuck (repeating) patterns
– Sensing into our ‘right’ place to make a difference
This workshop is offered on a Pay What You Can basis, with a minimum amount of £25 (in line with the foundational role which exchange holds in systemic constellation work). Usual cost of participation is £125 (£75 concessions for registered charities and other voluntary organisations).

Ask us anything: Strategy and Impact drop-ins with The Social Change Nest
2025-12-12 09:00 - 13:00 | Online
Feeling unsure how to link your day-to-day work with your bigger goals? Having a clear strategy helps you to define what change you’re trying to make, how you’ll make it happen, and where to focus your energy. Understanding your impact helps you celebrate your successes and show your community, partners and funders why your work matters.
Whether you’re just starting out, growing your team, or approaching a pivotal moment in your journey, we’re offering limited 1:1 strategy & impact sessions to help you take the next step with confidence. Book a free, 45 minute slot with the Ana, from the Social Change Nest team.
This is a space to bring your ideas to life. We’ll share practical advice and point you to useful tools, so you leave with more clarity and confidence.
Topics might include:

Planning with your Theory of Change
Create SMART goals and identify your priorities
Apply your Theory of Change to funding applications
Mapping partners and power holders
Defining and measuring your impact
Creatively communicating your impact

Book your spot now – limited spaces available!

'Signal in the Noise' - Six climate opinion trends from 2025 & what’s next
2026-01-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Signal in the Noise is Climate Barometer’s annual publication that monitors and makes sense of patterns and trends in opinion on climate change.
This year’s Signal in the Noise is both a look back at the six trends from 2025 that defined the year in public opinion on climate change, and a look forward to the topics, risks and opportunities that will shape public engagement in 2026.
Join the Climate Barometer team, digital researcher Ed Harrison (University of Bath and Horizon Intelligence), Rachael Orr (Climate Outreach) and Claire Brown (Larger US) in a conversation that will cover:

Has public opinion fractured and polarised like the political consensus, or is there a different story to tell, to drive public engagement in 2026?
Why do large ‘perception gaps’ persist between MPs’ estimates of public support for renewables and what people actually think – and what work is needed to close them?
Where do the risks – and opportunities – lie in engaging Reform supporters (and Reform-curious voters) in the year ahead?
As ‘green populism’ has its moment, how are voters responding to this kind of messaging?
And with the drive for net zero becoming ever more local, what new insights do campaigners need to stay ahead?

Drawing on their tracker of public and MP opinion, a new social listening analysis by Ed Harrison, and the public engagement expertise of the guest speakers Rachael Orr and Claire Brown, this will be an opportunity to build on the opinion signals of 2025 to guide the engagement strategies of 2026.
Reserve your spot to attend!

BUD Leaders: Double Up & Access More!
2026-02-20 09:30 - 15:00 | NatWest 250 Bishopsgate, 250 Bishops Gate, London, EC2M 4AA, United Kingdom
Double Up & Access More! ACTION SPEAKS is the annual event where Entrepreneurs, SMEs, Trusts, Foundations, and Large Organisations come together to build powerful pipelines for opportunity, growth, and change.
Why It Matters?

Only 0.02% of venture capital reaches Black women, but Global Majority businesses are most innovative.

Black and Global Majority Businesses underprice themselves because they think they don’t add enough value.

We aren’t getting access to same level of resources, skills, and networks are our counterparts.

This event exists to help level the playing field!
Access in Action
We’re creating pathways that double both opportunity and impact through:

Advancing skills for long-term business growth

Increasing supplier diversity and building inclusive supply chains

Expanding investment and funding access

Growing networks and social capital that open real doors

Who Is It For?

Global Majority Entrepreneurs & Diverse SMEs: Scale your business, sharpen your leadership, and unlock real opportunities waiting for you.

Trusts & Foundations: Invest in innovation and inclusion through authentic, evidence-based collaboration.

Large Organisations: Diversify your supplier base and build equitable partnerships that drive measurable social impact.

Allies & Supporters: Show up, speak out, and stand beside us. Be the advocate who helps turn access into action and inclusion into impact.

This is more than an event, it’s a movement. A turning point for equity and action.
If you’re interested in attending and you are part of our network, please reach out to us at hello@thesocialchangenest.org for a discount code to access complimentary tickets.
Read more and book tickets here

Changemaking: blindspots, blocks & burnout
2026-02-23 09:30 - 16:30 | Hammersmith Quaker Meeting House, 30-32 Bradmore Park Road, London, W6 0DT, United Kingdom
An in-person, systemic constellation workshop to support changemakers who are feeling stuck in some part of their changemaking work. Questions that may be explored include:
What is really blocking change?
What are we not seeing?
What work is ours to do – and what is not?

Steph is offering the first 10 places available at a discounted rate of £75 (usual cost of participation is £125), and you can contact Steph if cost is a barrier.

Monday 23rd February 2026, London, register here

Dreamer - The Mixed Bag Players
2026-03-19 19:00 - 2026-03-21 21:00 | Friargate Theatre, Lower Friargate, York, Yorkshire, YO1 9SL, United Kingdom
Dreamer is a production at the Friargate Theatre in York, created by The Mixed Bag Players, a theatre company made up of people in recovery from addiction and/or mental ill-health. ​

Dream with us into another world, where spirits wander and rain speaks.
Alora’s past is hiding from her, she is a woman who dreams only of endless water – but tonight she wakes into a new dream – one where everyone wants something from her and nothing is exactly as it appears!
Leap into a world of puppets, projected animation, tricky spirits, and rhyming curses.
