A place for philanthropic funders to connect, develop new forms of strategy, and work towards greater impact together. Our guiding star is to support economies in service to life, with active workstreams on investment, tax and the legal rights of nature.

The Social Change Nest is running a working group for funders interested in best supporting grassroots initiatives.

A funding mechanism hosted by the Environmental Funders Network, to help environmental organisations respond quickly to crises or opportunities.

A community of practice for funders seeking guidance and peer support that will help them to more effectively resource narrative change.

The UK Overseas Territories Learning Series was an opportunity for funders to discover more about these diverse environments, how and why they are under threat and what can be done to safeguard their future.

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.

Join the EIIG to learn about environmental impact investing and meet other investors

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.

Lightning Reach is a one-stop online grants portal transforming how people in financial hardship access support.

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.

A joint initiative, which ran from 2020 to 2024, focused on supporting the provision of specialist social welfare legal advice across the UK.

Join Joffe Charitable Trust and other funders supporting a great coalition fixing this crucial issue that enables all sorts of social harm.

Aiming to bring about systemic change in support for London's civil society organisations.

Peer action learning for people working in grant-making who want to learn together and take action to shift power in funding.

Connect with Effective Altruism UK to optimise philanthropy using evidence-based strategies, accessing top resources and networks for impactful giving

Building the first community-level pooled fund in the UK for existing and emerging local news initiatives

The Forum was established as an information exchange between local grant giving funders. It meets four times a year, in person.

Investing in Buckinghamshire's next generation - a fund for young people, by young people

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.

Multiply your funding for arts and cultural organisations and incentivise public giving

Funders supporting an improvement in the mental health of front-line voluntary and community sector (VCS) workers, by collaborating to share practice and implement a co-ordinated approach.

Informal network to bring together those running family foundations who are based in Surrey

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.

Co-op Foundation is interested in potential match funding partners for round 3 of its Carbon Innovation Fund, aiming to reduce carbon emissions from the food and farming industries.

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.

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.

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.

Bringing together businesses across Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly to support the communities they work in.

This group comes together each month to support our collective place-based focus on communities in Buckinghamshire.

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.

Supporting artists and producers working with music and live performance to sustain their practice through Covid-19.

A collaborative fund to improve vulnerable and disadvantaged women’s mental health and financial resilience.

The Voice for Philanthropy, Beacon exists to encourage more private assets to be used for public good.

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.

An informal group of funders committed to working together in a joined up way to benefit Gloucestershire.

A collective impact partnership working towards transformational change on NRPF - an issue of racial and economic justice, not just migration.

A funding partnership between The Gannochy Trust and Perth and Kinross Council to support more collaborative, universal youth work provision.

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.

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.

Network bringing together charities with investments to further their missions through responsible investment.

A group of local and national funders that come together every 6 weeks to share information and explore opportunities to collaborate.

A private philanthropic fund, collaborating with governments, NGOs, pharmaceutical and academic partners to end the most common neglected tropical diseases.

An opportunity to shape and/or join a new forum for funders in Leeds

A forum for non-statutory funders that are investing, or interested in investing in Bradford.

An informal group of funders that support voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations across Wiltshire and Swindon.

A space where young people and funders come together, to ensure that children and young people’s voices are at the heart of youth funding strategies.

Working together to fund excellent period music activity in every region of the UK, to enrich lives and enhance community cohesion

Membership organisation for grantmaking charities working in Scotland. Provides opportunities for members to network, work together, share best practice and stay up-to-date on matters affecting the charity and voluntary sector.

Funders working together to support and strengthen infrastructure to ensure young people thrive

A collaboration between six funders, working with six places to build a social, economic and environmental justice movement, by communities, for communities.

A collaboration of 6 London Giving schemes working together to address structural discrimination and access support and funding for diverse communities in London

A network of national, local, and county-wide funders serving Bedfordshire and Luton.

Plymouth Octopus Project has experimented with ways of funding a local ecosystem of responses to social, economic and environmental needs. We are inviting other funders join in the next steps of this journey.

A collaborative fund aiming to build the environmental investment market and help funders learn more about environmental investing

Contributing to the foundations for a strong, vibrant, diverse and sustainable movement for social justice for Deaf and Disabled Londoners.

A regular platform for Moray grant-givers to network, learn, collaborate, and share funding information

European peer-to-peer network of funders and philanthropists who support social change and human rights.

A free, informal, inclusive and collaborative group for people in grant making across the UK

Supporting foundation leaders to deliver racial justice in their organisations.

Strengthening and supporting funders, to promote effective funding practices and learn about current and emerging issues to meet the needs of Wales.

Enabling funders to be better connected and informed, in order to boost their impact on South Yorkshire people and places.

A confidential space for organisations who fund in Northern Ireland to network, share information and encourage collaboration.

A non-hierarchical gathering of people who work in grant-giving, enabling them to raise their collective voice about pressing issues affecting the sector.

A group of funders have commissioned research into the opportunities for small and grassroots women’s organisations to catalyse change.

Funders working together to develop cross-sector thinking and collaborative approaches to address the issues affecting communities in Wakefield District.

A support network for funders in the West Midlands, helping them to work more effectively and increase their impact on people and communities.

For ACF members who would like to be involved in considering what role foundations can play in tackling poverty.

For ACF members giving less than £500,000 a year, or which are administered by one person on their own.

For ACF members who fund and work in 'place', be it rural, city-wide, town or ward level.

For ACF members who are working on projects involving mental health.

For ACF members who are already funding or exploring the possibility of funding housing and homelessness projects and programmes.

For ACF members that fund or are interested in funding work in Northern Ireland.

For ACF members who are already funding or exploring the possibility of funding internationally.

Enabled independent grant makers, social investors and public sector funders to collaborate and coordinate programmes.

A global peer-to-peer network of both existing and potential mental health funders.

For ACF members who represent family trusts and foundations, this network provides an opportunity to meet with peers, explore common issues, learn and share best practice.

For ACF members interested in current thinking about evidence and learning (including monitoring and evaluation) and reflecting on their own practices.

For ACF members that fund work in criminal justice to share information and practice in this area of funding.

For ACF members of trusts and foundations that are linked with a company, co-operative or other business.

A new network aiming to understand the links between the economy and the social challenges the philanthropy sector in the UK faces

For ACF members who are funding (or exploring the possibility of funding) work work with children and young people.

For ACF members who are funding (or exploring the possibility of funding) work related to asylum, refugees and migration

An informal network bringing together the senior leadership of 22 of the UK’s most significant arts and cultural funders.

A fund to support local charities and community organisations in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland facing rising demand and costs in autumn/winter 2022-23

Funders are invited to register with GrantAdvisor UK, an online service that encourages open dialogue between social impact organisations and grant-makers by collecting authentic, real-time reviews and comments on grant-seekers’ experiences of working with funders.

A partnership between Government, The National Lottery Community Fund and the Co-op Foundation to support projects that prevent or reduce loneliness

For ACF members who are already funding or exploring the possibility of funding work in domestic abuse and related areas.

Go! London is a collaborative funding partnership and the biggest community sport fund in London, aiming to support underserved children and young people through sport and physical activity.

Building connections between the Welsh third sector and Trusts and Foundations who are based outside Wales.

Mutual support, development and collaboration opportunities for funders working in the East Midlands.

New grant-making foundation looking to develop relationships with like-minded funders interested in supporting projects that focus on music to address wider social issues.

Working together to implement and build on recommendations from community research articulating how funders can better support African Diaspora-led organisations.

NHS England Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Team is interested in working with other funders to prevent of ill health, increase access to healthcare services and enhance the wider determinants of health.

Innovative approach to building relationships between funders, communities and professionals, leveraging collective intelligence, reducing duplication, producing higher quality social action.

Youth Futures Foundation are seeking community-based Bangladeshi/Pakistani-led organisations to join a funded collaborative action research process to help us learn how best to fund them.

Convening funders to deliver funding to the music and wellbeing sector in the most coordinated way possible.

Funding organisations across London are uniting to create a £100m fund to support voluntary and community groups to drive change and tackle inequality over ten years.

Inspiring Scotland are interested in working together with other funders or organisations to support participatory arts projects for wellbeing within community organisations across Scotland.

Co-op Foundation has some restricted funding to use on financial literacy / inclusion / numeracy and is interested in possible collaboration to deliver a programme aimed at young people.

Launching on 23rd November 2022, a forum in Birmingham will bring together those with an interest in the arts to discuss how to attract would-be supporters to this sector.