An informal network of independent funders who aim to improve the lives of people who migrate and the UK communities receiving them.

The Collaboration Circle is an exciting new space to host pooled funds on behalf of different funder collaborations.

An open invitation for funders of all sizes to come together as peers, exploring the opportunities and challenges of AI

Cross-sector membership network for funders and investors in London’s civil society.

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'.

Help us improve young women’s mental health in the UK through funding or influencing policy/practice around age and gender approaches.

A pooled fund taking bold approaches to bolster the pop culture for social justice field in the UK

Camden Giving is an independent charity working to end local poverty and inequality in Camden. We use participatory grantmaking to fund fair, community-led change.

Uncovering racial injustice in Camden to drive change and fund solutions led by the community

A collaboration of funders, farm and environmental centres and schools, to fund outdoor weeks of learning for 8-18 year olds with the greatest needs.

A straightforward framework to support all foundations to play their part in tackling the causes and impacts of climate change.

Multi-funder group supporting 11-25 year olds with direct hardship and development bursaries

A collaboration between BBC Children in Need and other funders to build a national strategic movement to tackle the impact of UK child poverty.

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.

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

Improving the opportunity for and the quality of youth participation in grant-making in Scotland.

Farming the Future is a pooled-fund and movement building organisation that uses participatory grant-making, sociocracy and trust-based philanthropy to support UK food and farming.

Join our 100+ strong Funder Community to contribute to a future where our faith unites and unleashes collective good to tackle pressing issues faced, not just by Muslims, but by society at large.

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

Post covid, school visits to art galleries have significantly fallen. This is a trend that the William Syson Foundation is aiming to reverse.

South West voluntary sector funders’ forum

The Regenerative Futures Fund is a pioneering initiative aimed at tackling the root causes of interconnected challenges of poverty, racism, and the climate emergency in Edinburgh.

Funders dedicated to advancing youth organising as a strategy for youth development and social justice.

A new method of assessing the diversity, accountability and transparency of UK foundations, incentivising and supporting them to improve their practices. It looks at how funders operate but does not look at what they fund.

Enables local funding organisations of all sizes to be better connected and informed, in order to boost their impact on Yorkshire people and places.

A varied group of charitable trusts which have made the decision to expend all of their income and reserves, which come together face to face and via email for peer support and advice

Creating the next generation of clean air leaders through the Clean Air Fellowship

Building civic power through growing grassroots community organising

Clean Air Fund and ShareAction are expanding into the second phase of the Clean Air Initiative, the first investor-led programme to tackle air pollution through institutional investor influence.

Co-designing solutions to the cost of care and financial insecurity with community organisations and residents in Manchester.

The GiveOut Urgent Response Fund is a lifeline for LGBTQI organisations impacted by the US government funding freeze

Turn2us is setting up a local programme in Barking and Dagenham working with community organisations to design solutions to tackle financial insecurity.

We Move FWD is developing a programme focused on early years outcomes for Black children and their families.

Contribute to Migration Exchange’s much-needed fund to boost leaders and drive impact in the refugee and migration sector

A network of leaders of foundations working to promote social justice (previously known as the Woburn Place Collaborative).

Catalyst Funders Forum is a bi-annual gathering bringing together funders and grassroots groups working at the intersection of tech and power

BBC Children in Need are developing a collaborative fund to work with children and young people in areas affected by the recent riots. This will focus on systemic issues and place-based community rebuilding, supporting local solutions and building evidence to influence practice nationally.

Unite Foundation is interested in conversations with partners wanting to improve outcomes of care experienced and estranged students in Higher Education

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

The Aziz Foundation is inviting other funders to join them in providing Fellowship opportunities at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism for young British Muslim qualified journalists

A cross sector group of funding initiatives concerned with the role of the law in addressing inequalities and achieving a more just society.

A shared framework for funders to capture data on funding for groups who experience structural inequity.

Islington Giving is a coalition of local people, businesses and funders raising funds, supporting local projects and sharing power in Islington.

The Social Impact Investors Group (SIIG) is a vibrant and innovative group that exists to support foundations interested in starting or who are currently undertaking social impact investing. SIIG is facilitated by the Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) and led by a member steering group.

The Big Give 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.

A collaborative environmental fund for the UK Overseas Territories, which collectively host 94% of the UK’s endemic biodiversity.

Developing a trauma informed grantmaking community of practice to increase trauma informed grantmaking and learn from funders’ good practice.

Advocating for a distinct field of UK Rural Philanthropy, building evidence and increasing dedicated investment for change in the countryside

We are coming together to commission a research and scoping exercise to inform grantmaking aimed at improving the family courts.

Place Matters are developing an online map capturing data on place-based funding for projects aiming to tackle a systemic social challenge

The Impact Alliance seeks to proactively tackle pressing community issues in the West of England through an innovative, collaborative and strategic funding approach.

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.

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.

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

A collaborative sprint process, deepening our practice of acting responsively and facing some of the bigger structural challenges needed

Enabling funders to be better networked, better informed and work together more effectively to improve and maximise their support to North East communities.

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.

Enabling women’s access to justice through supporting women-centred, holistic and trauma-responsive approaches to diverting women from crime.

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.

Supporting music projects that make a difference to people’s physical and mental health. The fund remains open to potential new investors.

A collaboration of funders mobilising resources and learning together on adolescent girl leadership, youth protagonism and ecosystems of support.

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.

Social Investment Business is looking for partners to develop a funding and support programme for community organisations to transition to heat networks.

The Greater London Authority's Financial Hardship team is interested in working with other funders who are funding, or considering funding, community-based welfare advice in London.

The UK Democracy Fund is a non-partisan pooled fund hosted by Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust to further democratic participation.

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.

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

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.

Promoting collaboration, listening and learning among funders and organisations to support and strengthen safeguarding practices globally.

This was a learning community to develop a payment for involvement policy that is fair and equitable.

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.

Collaborative programme seeking to tackle the root causes of gendered and child poverty in Middlesbrough

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.

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.

What's Possible is an Experiential Learning Institute and $1M pooled fund presented by the Children’s Rights Innovation Fund (CRIF), in partnership with We Trust You(th). What’s Possible will enable a cohort of donors to learn and plan WHILE funding participatory youth-driven grantmaking.

GiveOut is an international LGBTQI community foundation, looking to collaborate with other trusts and foundations to fund LGBTQI activism worldwide.

A peer support group for people with a role to undertake or support evaluation and learning within their fund and amongst grant-holders.

The Enterprise Grants Taskforce brings together funders looking to support the development of earned income across the sector.

A partnership which worked to make the youth sector more accountable to those it exists to serve: young people.

Scotland Funders’ Forum is a forum in Scotland who are committed to best practice in funding.

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