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Discover opportunities to connect and collaborate with hundreds of funders working on issues you care about.

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Collaboration opportunities

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Reducing language bias in grant-making

We aim to understand where language bias arises in grant-making and develop resources to help foundations reduce or avoid it.
May 16, 2022
UK-wide
Existing collaboration
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Empowering Local

Our aim is to ensure that funding, and the funding decisions that are made, make the most impact possible by being driven by needs of local children and young people and the organisations that support them.
May 16, 2022
UK-wide
Existing collaboration
Emerging opportunity

LGBTQI Climate Fund

We are keen to explore co-funding and learning opportunities at the intersection of climate justice and LGBTQI human rights.
May 16, 2022
International

Case study of the month

One application to many funders

In response to the pandemic, Gloucestershire Funders came together as an informal, action-oriented collaboration to share intelligence between funders and simplify processes through a single application form.

May 19, 2022

From a single application, an applicant might receive funding from three different sources – and go on to form longer-term relationships with each of these funders.

Sally Byng

Collaboration and partnerships are the life blood of how we achieve our mission. We know we cannot do it alone.

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Danielle Walker Palmour
Director, Friends Provident Foundation

Not all funders can nor should do the same things - but we need to better understand how we all fit together

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Duncan Shrubsole
Director of Policy, Communications and Research, Lloyds Bank Foundation

Collectively, we can have a wider influence on social issues

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Nick Addington
Chief Executive, William Grant Foundation

Funder collaboration toolkit

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Events

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Yorkshire Common Application Form Online Workshop

Learn more about the Yorkshire Common Application Form initiative and find out how your organisation can get involved
May 24, 2022
Discuss lessons learnt to inform future funding
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GM Funders Forum briefing: The Impact of Emergency funding grants on small VCSE organisations during Covid-19

GMCVO will present research findings on the impact of Covid-19 emergency funding on grassroots groups in Greater Manchester.
May 26, 2022
Share new information on challenges and opportunities facing the sector.
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North East and Cumbria Funders' Network - June 2022

Funders, social investors, local infrastructure organisations and local authorities share information and discuss collaboration.
June 9, 2022

Blog

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Funding community organising: lessons from the US

The Civic Power Fund is the UK’s first pooled fund dedicated to community organising. Martha Mackenzie looks across the Atlantic to explore why successful funding for this work needs a collective approach.

May 17, 2022

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Progress update - April 2022

Our latest monthly report on how the Hub is progressing against our priorities for the year.

May 16, 2022

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Making funding strategies more connected

Cassie Robinson explores how funders can develop their strategies in relation to the wider ecosystem, helping them to align or coordinate their work further upstream.

May 16, 2022

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