Funding individual changemakers

Issue:
Grants to individuals
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Activities:
Information-sharing
 • 
Peer learning
 • 
Influencing policy or practice
 • 
Pooled funding
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Location:
UK-wide
Stage:
Emerging Opportunity

Summary

The Churchill Fellowship is keen to collaborate with funders supporting individuals to create social change in the UK.

Aims and activities

Aims and questions

Aims and activities

Our model of change has been developed over 60 years and is still evolving as we learn more about the enabling conditions individuals need to succeed as changemakers.

We’re interested in exploring questions like:

  • How do we balance risk and uncertainty?
  • How can we assess passion and potential equitably?
  • What non-financial support do individual changemakers need most?
  • How does an individual grow and scale their work and how might funders work better together to help that happen?
  • Is it possible to evaluate an individual’s impact on a system?

We know you will have your own questions and challenges, and we hope that considering them collectively will help us all, the individuals we fund and the sector as a whole. 

How to get involved

We would love to hear from any other funders who are working to enable individuals to create social change in any sector.

We hope to develop an informal network, perhaps meeting bi-monthly online for peer learning and skills exchange. To start with there will be an opportunity to agree how we want to work together and what we want to focus on.

If you are interested, please get in touch with Abigail Campbell, Head of Activate at the Churchill Fellowship. Let us know if there’s a specific question or challenge that you’d like the network to explore together. 

Who's involved

Who was involved

Learning and Resources

Last reviewed:
June 16, 2026

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