🚨 We’re hiring a Funding Operations Administrator to help keep our funding processes running smoothly and provide administrative support.
📍Where: Kings Cross, London (2 days a week) / Hybrid
💷 Salary: £29k
🗓️ Applications close: 17 December 2025
👉 www.prospect-us.co.uk/job/193605-f...
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Our latest newsletter is out 🚀
💜 Wellbeing – funding to support staff & volunteer wellbeing
🌊 Blue Spaces – improving local freshwaters
🏛️ Communities & Collections Fund – apply by 21 Jan
👩💼 Funding Ops Admin – apply by 17 Dec
🏆 Congrats to Social Enterprise Awards winners!
28.11.2025 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Shared Lives Plus TV
Shared Lives for young care experienced people
💛 Sharing Joy & Care - Watch the moving new film from Shared Lives Plus, featuring ambassadors Gracie, Katie and Victoria: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rtm...
28.11.2025 12:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🏡 Inspiring Local Authority Practice - Check out insights from councils across England as part of Become’s #GoneTooFar campaign, showcasing what good practice looks like when keeping children in care close to the people and places that matter: becomecharity.org.uk/content/uplo...
28.11.2025 12:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Care Leaver Covenant
The Care Leaver Covenant is a national inclusion programme that supports care leavers aged 16-25 to live independently.We create meaningful opportunities for care leavers in five key areas and support...
🌟 Opportunities for Care-Experienced Young People - Explore 400+ opportunities in education, employment, wellbeing, finance and housing through the Care Leaver Covenant - a national commitment to helping care-experienced young people thrive: mycovenant.org.uk
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💛 National Care Leavers Month 💛
As the first-ever National Care Leavers Month wraps up this weekend, we’re celebrating the progress, the voices, and the powerful work happening across the country. Here are some standout highlights and resources you won’t want to miss:
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Picture of Esmée staff doing some planting with text: In 2024, we offered £5,000 in wellbeing awards to 52 of the organisations we grant fund to help them prioritise the wellbeing of their staff and volunteers.
A year later, we surveyed the recipients to learn how they used the funding and what impact it had. The findings in this report are based on feedback from the 22 organisations that responded to the survey.
Text: Impact of the wellbeing awards. 91% of organisations used the wellbeing award to introduce new or different wellbeing initiatives.
The flexibility of the funding was highly valued, with each organisation tailoring their approach to suit its unique needs and ways of working:
3 in 4 survey respondents used some or all the award to support connection through away days, wellbeing retreats, and social and team building activities.
All organisations reported improved team cohesion and relationships because of the award.
3 in 4 survey respondents used some or all the award for individual care work
Over half highlighted the positive impact of the support on individual wellbeing, with access to tailored offers and personal wellbeing budgets leaving staff feeling empowered, valued, and optimistic.
The support was credited with strengthening team dynamics and enhancing workplace culture, which in turn boosted productivity and resilience while reducing staff burnout and absences.
Text: Recommendations for funders. Provide long-term, ring-fenced funding for wellbeing, not just in times of crisis
Treat wellbeing as a core cost.
Provide unrestricted multi-year grants with an annual wellbeing component.
Reflect wellbeing in funder behaviour and practice.
Offer guidance on effective and sustainable wellbeing strategies.
Provide access to wellbeing practitioners, mentoring, courses, retreats, or healthcare packages.
Quote from a survey respondent: Multi-year grants with a wellbeing component, or unrestricted funding that allows us to respond to emerging mental health needs, would make a significant difference in building a resilient and supported team capable of delivering high-impact, compassionate work.
Our new report, Supporting organisations to prioritise wellbeing, shows that compassionate, people-centred workplaces are more resilient, sustainable, and better equipped to support their communities💓
Read the full report: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/supporting-o...
27.11.2025 17:22 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Breaking Down the Government’s New Asylum Proposals. Our latest blog focuses on what the Gov' wants to change, what this means in practice , & how communities can stay prepared. These are proposals, and not law. ow.ly/XzJJ50XucO8 #NoOneisIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall #MigrationisLife
19.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
There’s still time to apply for our Funding Manager role – Our Natural World 🌊🌿🚨
We’re hiring a Funding Manager to support our work on sustainable oceans. If you have marine and fisheries experience and want to help drive real environmental impact, we’d love to hear from you.
21.11.2025 10:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
People seeking asylum in the UK deserve safety and dignity
At Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, we have been giving grants to organisations welcoming and supporting refugees in the UK for 30 years.
Today we remain committed to migrant justice - to a society where migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum can all live in safety, in a place where their rights and dignity are protected.
This week's statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy will take away support for people who are destitute, and the changes to family reunion and removal will have a disproportionate impact on women and children.
Refugees have been living and thriving in communities across the UK for much longer than the 30 years Esmée has been supporting them. Migration is a vital part of UK life, and safe and legal routes should be a priority for those most in need of asylum and refuge in the UK. We will continue to support organisations working for this.
People seeking asylum in the UK deserve safety and dignity 🧡
Read our statement reiterating our support to organisations welcoming and supporting refugees in the UK. We also share responses from the sector about how the government's proposals on the asylum system will impact people.
19.11.2025 13:55 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Proud to join @thedifferenceed.bsky.social, @impetus.org.uk, and the growing list of schools and trusts backing #InclusionForAll. Looking forward to joining Inclusion for All supporters at #IncludEd2026.
Find out more and book your tickets for the event now: the-difference.com/included-2026/
19.11.2025 12:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Learning from Esmée’s Blue Spaces Programme 💧
Join us on 11 December 2025 for a webinar exploring learning from Esmée’s Blue Spaces programme, which was established to support communities to take action to improve their local freshwaters.
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Banning people from work has never made sense. The House of Lords couldn't understand it, and we don't either.
The Government is prepping asylum reforms RIGHT NOW. They must hear voters want an end to this absurd ban - not more irrational hostility:
📣 bit.ly/LTB-act
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Major impact investment fund for cultural and creative sector is extended for two years - Figurative
Figurative has announced that the investment period for its Arts & Culture Impact Fund (ACIF) has been extended until August 2027.
The investment period for our Arts & Culture Impact Fund (ACIF) has been extended until 2027!
Read more figurative.org.uk/news/major-i...
Thanks to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Better Society Capital, Nesta, @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social & Freelands Foundation.
11.11.2025 10:49 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
🚨 We’re recruiting 🚨
Join our team as Funding Manager – Our Natural World! We’re looking for someone with strong experience in marine and fisheries work, who’s passionate about sustainable oceans and ready to help drive lasting environmental change.
11.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Asylum hotels and military barracks are awful places to live for people fleeing torture.
We didn’t rely on them to house asylum seekers five years ago – so why is our government using them now?
It’s time to change this and take action on asylum accommodation.
30.10.2025 11:34 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2
❓How can UK nations lead the way when it comes to fair, healthy and sustainable food and farming?
Join FFCC's NI Director John Woods for panel “Wales the odd one out and why it matters” at the Wales Real Food and Farming Conference.
👉Get tickets now: wrffc.wales/cynhadledd-2...
24.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Read our October newsletter featuring:
📍Insights from place-led funding
💜 Support for organisations on DEI
🌱 How businesses are taking action for nature
🐬 Scaling and sustaining UK marine restoration
Plus news from the sector!
👉 esmeefairbairnfoundation.createsend1.com/t/t-e-gkykll...
24.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Holnicote Estate Project - winners of the Nigel Holmes Trophy in 2025!
🏆 UK River Prize 2026 – Now Open!
Celebrating innovation and excellence in river restoration across the UK.
5-minute application | Deadline: 19 Dec 2025
👉 Apply here: www.therrc.co.uk/uk-river-prize
14.10.2025 10:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We're Right Here – Campaign Film
This film carries an urgent message: community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline. When people have real control over what happens in their…
Community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline.
Give communities the power to fix broken Britain from the ground up.
🎥 Watch and share @right-here.org’s new film. vimeo.com/1128898994?s...
#CommunityPoweredPolitics #CommunityPower #Devolution
23.10.2025 15:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FRONTLINEdance is an artist led company based in Stoke-on-Trent, placing disabled people and those with long-term health conditions at the core. #NPO 2023-26
www.frontlinedance.co.uk
@frontlinedance1 on Instagram & Facebook
Not-for-profit bringing people & organisations together to find ways to unlock contentious issues around food & farming and to nurture food systems that are fair for people, animals & the planet
Visit https://www.foodethicscouncil.org/
National charity supporting victims of #HonourBasedAbuse #ForcedMarriage is a crime. Helpline: 0800 5999 247 info@karmanirvana.org.uk
The Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) is the leading membership association for foundations and independent grant-makers in the UK.
www.linkedin.com/company/association-of-charitable-foundations
AWRC is a pan-London specialist service that provides support to women who have been affected by domestic abuse and or harmful practices.
IEEP UK is a sustainability think tank, with over 40 years of experience. As part of the broader IEEP family, we are committed to advancing evidence-based research, analysis and policy insights in the UK. https://ieep.uk/
Achieving Real Change for a more inclusive Scotland. Impactful Training, Powerful Networks and Influential Policy Work.
https://arcscotland.org.uk/
Friends Provident Foundation is an endowed, independent charity exploring how money, financial systems and the economy can better serve society.
https://friendsprovidentfoundation.org
The UK's national trans led charity. Improving the lives of trans and non-binary people.
https://genderedintelligence.co.uk
Graeae is a force for change in world-class theatre, breaking down barriers & boldly placing Deaf, Disabled & neurodivergent artists centre stage.
graeae.org
Advocating, informing and empowering. By trans people, for trans people.
https://www.transactual.org.uk/
Press: press@transactual.org.uk
Social media policy: http://transactual.org.uk/socials
We bring funders together to build a better London by taking action on what matters to our city and our communities.
https://londonfunders.org.uk/
Research & news on UK peatlands from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) UK Peatland Programme.
Awarding #NationalLottery funding to strengthen society and improve lives across the UK. #ItStartsWithCommunity
www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk
The UK's home for community research and social innovation. Also powering the Institute for Community Studies.
www.youngfoundation.org
Also on X and Threads
CLC works to protect the rights of all children in NI particularly those who are most disadvantaged. We provide free advice and information to children and young people. For advice contact us on 0808 808 5678 or alternatively #AskREE at reerights.com
The charity for children and young people with a lived experience of care in Northern Ireland. We listen. We learn. Together we make change.
www.voypic.org | linktr.ee/voypic
Our mission is to reduce the risk of violence and aggression through campaigning, education and support. We manage @StalkingHelplineUK.
Interactions signify interest not endorsement.
Charity no: 802567
Scotland's leading charity working to end domestic abuse against women & children | The 24/7 Domestic Abuse & Forced Marriage Helpline Number is 0800 027 1234.
