Your one-stop shop for grantmaking

Looking to fund a specific cause or area? We can take care of the whole grantmaking process – and in a way that understands grassroots groups.

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This service is for you if:

  • You want to make a difference to a specific cause, or in a specific location, but you’re not sure where to start
  • You have an idea for a fund but you need support building it out
  • You have a small pot of funds and want it to go as far as possible
  • You want to experiment with designing a fund that meets the needs of prospective grantees, by being flexible, relational and low-burden

Our fee

Our fee is available on request

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Fund Management Package

We can help you with the following:

  • Programme design and delivery
  • Contracting
  • Grant distribution
  • Reporting
  • Evaluation

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In their words

“The Social Change Nest provides a unique way for funders to back committed people and groups doing dedicated work to help their communities. The Changing Ideas Mutual Aid Fund has been a true partnership with the team and a good example of funders and activists working effectively together.”
David GrahamPhilanthropist and founder of Changing Ideas

Relevant FAQs

We run a bespoke service and so the process completely depends on you and your programme needs. Get in touch with our team to see how we can support you.

Open Collective is a platform that allows you to collaboratively and transparently manage your funds. As a fiscal host, we license Open Collective and work together to hold funds on behalf of grassroots groups in a way that allows them to make all the decisions. 

We strongly recommend using the Open Collective platform. It’s the quickest and easiest way to get money to grantees. We can distribute grants outside of the platform, but this may mean additional costs due to the extra admin involved.

In most cases, yes. If your grantees have created their own Open Collective account to receive your grant, they can keep using their account to receive and manage other funds. All funds received through the platform are automatically charged a 5% fee to cover admin costs.

Yes, we can. The set-up is different, though, so we’d need to talk you through the process first. Get in touch to find out how it works.