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Big Give Green Match Fund 2025
The Big Green Match Fund is seeking 'champions' (trusts, foundations, philanthropists and companies) to join the 2025 campaign, which will multiply your funding for environmental organisations and incentivise public giving.
Last updated:
December 18, 2024
International
Existing Collaboration
Environment
Philanthropy
The UK Overseas Territories Fund: An unparalleled opportunity for environmental philanthropy
A collaborative environmental fund for the UK Overseas Territories, which collectively host 94% of the UK’s endemic biodiversity.
Last updated:
December 13, 2024
UK Overseas Territories
Existing Collaboration
No items found.
Trauma informed grantmaking community of practice
Developing a trauma informed grantmaking community of practice to increase trauma informed grantmaking and learn from funders’ good practice.
Last updated:
December 11, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Grant-making practices
UK Rural Philanthropy Project
Advocating for a distinct field of UK Rural Philanthropy, building evidence and increasing dedicated investment for change in the countryside
Last updated:
November 26, 2024
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Rural areas
Family Courts – learning, scoping and funding together
We are coming together to commission a research and scoping exercise to inform grantmaking aimed at improving the family courts.
Last updated:
November 25, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Families
Children
Social welfare
Place Matters interactive map of place-based funding
Place Matters are developing an online map capturing data on place-based funding for projects aiming to tackle a systemic social challenge
Last updated:
November 22, 2024
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Community development
Climate Activist Speaker Fund
This fund supported young climate activists by providing unrestricted funding to enable them to access more holistic support including training, peer networks and greater audience reach
Last updated:
November 21, 2024
International
Past Collaboration
Environment
Young people
Policy campaigning and advocacy
Small Charity Week: Match Funding Campaign
Big Give, Global's Make Some Noise and NCVO are establishing a match funding campaign to support small charities in the UK, coordinating with Small Charity Week 2025
Last updated:
November 14, 2024
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Philanthropy
Civil society infrastructure
Impact Alliance: West of England
The Impact Alliance seeks to proactively tackle pressing community issues in the West of England through an innovative, collaborative and strategic funding approach.
Last updated:
November 7, 2024
South West
Emerging Opportunity
Social welfare
Community development
Power of Pop Fund
A pooled fund taking bold approaches to bolster the pop culture for social justice field in the UK
Last updated:
October 31, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Arts
Racial justice
Migration
Civil society infrastructure
Funder-to-Funder Infrastructure Group
Peter Brach, founder at Propel Philanthropy, began this group with a conviction that we could achieve exponential progress by investing in broad, cross-cutting solutions. We want to bring many more funders into our conversations.
Last updated:
October 11, 2024
International
Existing Collaboration
Philanthropy
Civil society infrastructure
Building local social cohesion
The need for a strengthened sense of cohesion and belonging has never been greater. Belong is designing a programme for Local Authority areas most at risk of future unrest.
Last updated:
October 1, 2024
England
Emerging Opportunity
Religious, racial or cross-border harmony
Conflict resolution
Learning partnership with UK Muslim communities
Muslim Charities Forum is seeking funders who are open to engaging with UK Muslim communities and those hard-to-reach, to alleviate the effects of systemic bias, inequality and low social mobility
Last updated:
October 1, 2024
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Racial, ethnic or national communities
Religious, racial or cross-border harmony
Grant-making practices
Resourcing racial justice initiatives: funder co-design sprint hosted by Thirty Percy
A collaborative sprint process, deepening our practice of acting responsively and facing some of the bigger structural challenges needed
Last updated:
October 1, 2024
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Racial justice
Grant-making practices
North East & Cumbria Funders Network (NEC-FN)
Enabling funders to be better networked, better informed and work together more effectively to improve and maximise their support to North East communities.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
North East
Existing Collaboration
No items found.
Environmental Funders Network
A network of foundations and individual donors supporting environmental causes. EFN aims to increase the amount of financial support for environmental causes and improve its effectiveness.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Environment
Funder Safeguarding Collaborative
Promoting collaboration, listening and learning among funders and organisations to support and strengthen safeguarding practices globally.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
International
Existing Collaboration
Grant-making practices
Social welfare
Philanthropy
Advice
Corston Independent Funders' Coalition
Enabling women’s access to justice through supporting women-centred, holistic and trauma-responsive approaches to diverting women from crime.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Women
Crime and justice
The Child Poverty Impact Programme
Join BBC Children in Need and other funders as we work to build a national strategic movement to tackle the impact of UK child poverty.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Children
Social welfare
Young people
Islington Giving
Islington Giving is a coalition of local people, businesses and funders raising funds, supporting local projects and sharing power in Islington.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
London
Existing Collaboration
Community development
Testing if Summer Jobs can reduce violence for young people in high crime areas
Youth Endowment Fund is looking for partners to co-invest in a first-of-its-kind three-year Summer Jobs Programme for young people at risk of involvement in violence in England and Wales.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Young people
Crime and justice
Employment
The Power of Music Fund
Supporting music projects that make a difference to people’s physical and mental health. The fund remains open to potential new investors.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Arts
Health
Empowering Her Voice
A collaboration of funders mobilising resources and learning together on adolescent girl leadership, youth protagonism and ecosystems of support.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
International
Existing Collaboration
Girls
Young people
Collaborating to help companion animals and their families in the UK
At Battersea, our grant-making team are interested in connecting with other funders to explore opportunities to collaborate and share knowledge to help more owners and their pets.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Animals
Social welfare
Community Heat Networks
Social Investment Business is looking for partners to develop a funding and support programme for community organisations to transition to heat networks.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Environment
Facilities
AI for grantmakers
An open invitation for funders of all sizes to come together as peers, exploring the opportunities and challenges of AI
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Grant-making practices
The UK Democracy Fund
The UK Democracy Fund is a non-partisan pooled fund hosted by Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust to further democratic participation.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Democracy
#iwill Fund
The #iwill Fund brings together a collaborative group of funders creating more opportunities for young people to take part in high-quality youth social action.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
England
Existing Collaboration
Young people
Volunteering
Plastic pollution - UNEA global treaty
The Astra Foundation is hoping to identify other funders who may be interested in aligned funding to support organisations developing the UNEA global treaty to end plastic pollution
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
International
Emerging Opportunity
Environment
Plymouth Partners & Funders Forum
Plymouth Partners & Funders Forum is a group of funders and public sector partners committed to working together in a joined up, transparent way to benefit Plymouth's voluntary, community and social enterprise sector and the people of Plymouth.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
South West
Existing Collaboration
No items found.
Payment for Involvement Learning Community
Join our learning community to develop a payment for involvement policy that is fair and equitable.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Grant-making practices
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Community of practice for fiscal hosts and sponsors
Convening intermediary organisations who fiscally host and sponsor unincorporated groups, to share insights, challenges and best practice within this emerging infrastructure service supporting grassroots changemakers across the world.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
International
Emerging Opportunity
Grant-making practices
Civil society infrastructure
Collaborating on gendered poverty
Collaborative programme seeking to tackle the root causes of gendered and child poverty in Middlesbrough
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
North East
Existing Collaboration
Women
Children
Social welfare
Charity reserves group
An informal collaboration between several Scottish funders, OSCR and others exploring how to make reserves work better to support a dynamic and resilient third sector.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
Scotland
Existing Collaboration
Grant-making practices
Community tech - Discovery Fund
Opportunity to test and explore the appetite and need for 'community tech' - technology built with, by and for communities, that is locally accountable and creates local value.
Last updated:
September 24, 2024
England
Emerging Opportunity
Community development
Pride with Purpose: supporting LGBTQI communities worldwide
GiveOut is an international LGBTQI community foundation, looking to collaborate with other trusts and foundations to fund LGBTQI activism worldwide.
Last updated:
September 23, 2024
International
Existing Collaboration
No items found.
Funder evaluation and learning group (Scotland)
A peer support group for people with a role to undertake or support evaluation and learning within their fund and amongst grant-holders.
Last updated:
September 23, 2024
Scotland
Existing Collaboration
No items found.
Enterprise Grants Taskforce
The Enterprise Grants Taskforce brings together funders looking to support the development of earned income across the sector.
Last updated:
September 23, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Social enterprise
Grant-making practices
The Listening Fund (England)
A partnership which worked to make the youth sector more accountable to those it exists to serve: young people.
Last updated:
September 13, 2024
England
Past Collaboration
Children
Young people
Scotland Funders’ Forum
Scotland Funders’ Forum is a forum in Scotland who are committed to best practice in funding.
Last updated:
September 4, 2024
Scotland
Existing Collaboration
No items found.
Collaboration Circle
The Collaboration Circle is an exciting new space to host pooled funds on behalf of different funder collaborations.
Last updated:
August 21, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Grant-making practices
Collaborative funding for conservation internships
An opportunity for funders to collaborate together, and in partnership with the Institute of Conservation, to support conservation internships in specialist areas deemed 'at risk'.
Last updated:
August 21, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Heritage
Professions
DEI Data Standard
A shared framework for funders to capture data on funding for groups who experience structural inequity.
Last updated:
August 14, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Grant-making practices
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Funders Grassroots Working Group
The Social Change Nest is running a working group for funders interested in best supporting grassroots initiatives.
Last updated:
July 24, 2024
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Civil society infrastructure
Grant-making practices
Regenerative Futures Fund
A new, 10-year, unrestricted pooled fund for the social sector in Edinburgh to work upstream towards big, transformational change for people.
Last updated:
July 17, 2024
Scotland
Existing Collaboration
Community development
Environment
Rapid Response Fund
A funding mechanism hosted by the Environmental Funders Network, to help environmental organisations respond quickly to crises or opportunities.
Last updated:
July 16, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Environment
Elemental: cultivating conditions to resource narrative power
A community of practice for funders seeking guidance and peer support that will help them to more effectively resource narrative change.
Last updated:
July 8, 2024
International
Existing Collaboration
Civil society infrastructure
Grant-making practices
Racial justice
Human rights
Diversity Forum
A collective on a mission to drive inclusive social investment in the UK, through the convening of sector-wide groups, commissioning research, and knowledge sharing.
Last updated:
June 24, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Social investment
Environmental Impact Investing Group
Join the EIIG to learn about environmental impact investing and meet other investors
Last updated:
June 13, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Environment
Social investment
Reaching vulnerable children across England and Wales through Detached Youth Work
Youth Endowment Fund is seeking funding partners to test the impact of Detached Youth Work, helping to build evidence about its effectiveness for children and young people.
Last updated:
June 12, 2024
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Children
Young people
Collaborative financial support portal for individuals
Lightning Reach is a one-stop online grants portal transforming how people in financial hardship access support.
Last updated:
May 3, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Social welfare
Grants to individuals
Justice Together
Building a community of people and organisations with diverse backgrounds, strengths, and experience, to transform access to justice in the UK immigration system. Includes information about emerging needs of Palestinians in the UK.
Last updated:
March 6, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Migration
Advice
The Community Justice Fund
A joint initiative, which ran from 2020 to 2024, focused on supporting the provision of specialist social welfare legal advice across the UK.
Last updated:
March 4, 2024
UK-wide
Past Collaboration
Advice
Farming the Future
Aiming to connect, strengthen and grow the agroecology movement and speed up a just transition for the UK farming and food system, by improving the flow of resources through power-aware funding. Now open to new funders joining.
Last updated:
February 28, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Environment
Social welfare
Grant-making practices
Policy campaigning and advocacy
Financial investment
Fixing the UK's dirty money problem
Join Joffe Charitable Trust and other funders supporting a great coalition fixing this crucial issue that enables all sorts of social harm.
Last updated:
February 16, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Policy campaigning and advocacy
Crime and justice
Economic development
International development
Democracy
The Cornerstone Fund
Aiming to bring about systemic change in support for London's civil society organisations.
Last updated:
February 7, 2024
London
Existing Collaboration
Civil society infrastructure
Losing Control in Funding Network
Peer action learning for people working in grant-making who want to learn together and take action to shift power in funding.
Last updated:
February 6, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Grant-making practices
Effective Altruism UK
Connect with Effective Altruism UK to optimise philanthropy using evidence-based strategies, accessing top resources and networks for impactful giving
Last updated:
January 29, 2024
International
Existing Collaboration
Philanthropy
Local News Fund in Newry, Northern Ireland
Building the first community-level pooled fund in the UK for existing and emerging local news initiatives
Last updated:
January 22, 2024
Northern Ireland
Existing Collaboration
Community development
Social Justice Funders Group
A cross sector group of funding initiatives concerned with the role of the law in addressing inequalities and achieving a more just society.
Last updated:
January 18, 2024
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Advice
Norwich & District Funders' Forum
The Forum was established as an information exchange between local grant giving funders. It meets four times a year, in person.
Last updated:
January 3, 2024
East of England
Existing Collaboration
No items found.
Young Futures Fund
Investing in Buckinghamshire's next generation - a fund for young people, by young people
Last updated:
November 30, 2023
South East
Existing Collaboration
Young people
Children
East of England Funders Forum
The East of England Funders Forum brings together national, regional and local funders who currently fund, or who are interested in funding, groups in the East of England region.
Last updated:
November 30, 2023
East of England
Existing Collaboration
No items found.
Big Give Arts for Impact Fund
Multiply your funding for arts and cultural organisations and incentivise public giving
Last updated:
November 23, 2023
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Arts
Surrey Family Foundations Network
Informal network to bring together those running family foundations who are based in Surrey
Last updated:
November 16, 2023
South East
Existing Collaboration
Grant-making practices
Living Wage Funders network
A network of more than 80 funders working with the Living Wage Foundation to end in-work poverty and low pay. We would like to widen our pool of organisations collaborating to achieve these aims.
Last updated:
November 16, 2023
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Grant-making practices
Social welfare
Funder Collaborative for Youth Organising
Funders dedicated to advancing youth organising as a strategy for youth development and social justice.
Last updated:
November 14, 2023
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Young people
Democracy
Citizenship
Civil society infrastructure
Policy campaigning and advocacy
Collaborative funding for Warm Spaces
The Warm Welcome campaign has launched for winter 2023/34, including working with funders to co-ordinate support for Warm Spaces in communities across the UK.
Last updated:
October 30, 2023
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Social welfare
Facilities
Foundation Practice Rating
A new method of assessing the transparency, accountability and diversity of UK foundations, incentivising and supporting them to improve their practices
Last updated:
October 16, 2023
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Grant-making practices
Research Funders Policy Group
Brings together senior representatives from the UK’s major science and health research funders to discuss funding policy development and implementation, best practice, emerging issues and possible alignment.
Last updated:
October 4, 2023
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Research
Health
Scotland Funders Safeguarding Leads Network
A collective of Scotland-focused funding officers who lead on or who are involved in the development and delivery of funder safeguarding policy and practice within their organisations.
Last updated:
September 26, 2023
Scotland
Existing Collaboration
Grant-making practices
Cornwall Women's Fund
Managed by Cornwall Community Foundation, we are dedicated to investing in the women and girls of Cornwall. Our members invest their time, skills and money to improve lives, inspire hope and nurture ambition.
Last updated:
August 31, 2023
South West
Existing Collaboration
Women
Girls
Philanthropy
Cornwall Community Foundation Business Club
Bringing together businesses across Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly to support the communities they work in.
Last updated:
August 31, 2023
South West
Existing Collaboration
No items found.
Closing the young women’s mental health gap
Help us improve young women’s mental health in the UK through funding or influencing policy/practice around age and gender approaches.
Last updated:
August 29, 2023
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Young people
Women
Health
Climate Justice Pooled Fund
Participatory grantmaking for climate justice movements led by individuals from the global south and frontline communities.
Last updated:
August 23, 2023
International
Emerging Opportunity
Environment
Policy campaigning and advocacy
Buckinghamshire Strategic Funders Group
This group comes together each month to support our collective place-based focus on communities in Buckinghamshire.
Last updated:
August 23, 2023
South East
Existing Collaboration
No items found.
Assisting school staff in a financial crisis
Teaching Staff Trust provides hardship grants to people working in the education sector. We are looking to collaborate with other funders to help meet an explosion in demand for support.
Last updated:
August 22, 2023
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Children
Young people
Education
Social welfare
Grants to individuals
Bath Women's Fund
We are a giving circle supporting women and girls in Bath and the surrounding area. We welcome new members.
Last updated:
August 22, 2023
South West
Existing Collaboration
Women
Girls
Philanthropy
People & Place
Footwork Trust is looking for collaborators to help develop the next phase of an innovative funding and support programme for local people to turn their bold ideas into lasting, positive change for communities.
Last updated:
August 3, 2023
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
Community development
Live Work Fund
Supporting artists and producers working with music and live performance to sustain their practice through Covid-19.
Last updated:
July 27, 2023
UK-wide
Past Collaboration
Arts
Women Thrive Fund
A collaborative fund to improve vulnerable and disadvantaged women’s mental health and financial resilience.
Last updated:
July 24, 2023
UK-wide
Past Collaboration
Women
Girls
Health
Social welfare
The Beacon Collaborative
The Voice for Philanthropy, Beacon exists to encourage more private assets to be used for public good.
Last updated:
July 19, 2023
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Philanthropy
DEI Coalition
A group of funders formed a learning and action community to embed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion throughout their work. Over two years, they built a body of practice which is now available for the whole sector to benefit from.
Last updated:
July 19, 2023
UK-wide
Past Collaboration
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Grant-making practices
Gloucestershire Funders
An informal group of funders committed to working together in a joined up way to benefit Gloucestershire.
Last updated:
July 11, 2023
South West
Existing Collaboration
No items found.
Law for Change
The Law for Change fund exists to increase the level and quality of funding for legal actions in the public interest. This first-of-its kind initiative enables donors to achieve collective results by pooling resources for low-cost, high impact legal cases that would otherwise not get heard.
Last updated:
July 7, 2023
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Policy campaigning and advocacy
The Cost of Care: Improving the chance to thrive in Manchester
Co-designing solutions to the cost of care and financial insecurity with community organisations and residents in Manchester.
Last updated:
July 6, 2023
North West
Emerging Opportunity
Social care
Social welfare
Civic Power Fund
Building civic power through growing grassroots community organising.
Last updated:
June 22, 2023
UK-wide
Existing Collaboration
Citizenship
Democracy
Civil society infrastructure
Enabling the movement to end No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)
A collective impact partnership working towards transformational change on NRPF - an issue of racial and economic justice, not just migration.
Last updated:
June 21, 2023
UK-wide
Emerging Opportunity
No items found.
Strategic Youth Work Partnership
A funding partnership between The Gannochy Trust and Perth and Kinross Council to support more collaborative, universal youth work provision.
Last updated:
June 16, 2023
Scotland
Existing Collaboration
Young people
Youth Employment Funders Collaboration
A group of funders that seek to improve employment outcomes for young people. We are building a shared ambition for change in how young people progress towards and into work.
Last updated:
June 15, 2023
England
Existing Collaboration
Employment
Young people
Funders supporting We're Right Here – the campaign for community power
A group of funders and other organisations are working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the country and across the political spectrum.
Last updated:
June 15, 2023
England
Existing Collaboration
Community development
Policy campaigning and advocacy
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