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Round 17

Our 40 Roots grantees are finally here! Go to the link to know more about them: www.edgefund.org.uk/round_17 Thanks to all our supporters for making this possible & thanks to all the applicants for their vital work! We are committed to raise more funds and continue supporting the grassroots!!

A brief update of where we are at with our Funding Round 17 - Roots Fund. We received slightly over 100 applications and we are thanking all applicants for their work. Our Funding Working Group, made of Edge members (past grantees) are now looking at them to shortlist those eligible before making a final selection of 40 grantees! The FWG is made of Migrant Women Press, World Stages Now, Unis Resist Borders Controls, Youth Front For Palestine, Queer Refugees Unite, and Black Activists Rising Against Cuts.

Thanks to all the groups for their applications! Our Funding Working Group, made of Edge members (past grantees) are now looking at them to shortlist those eligible before making a final selection of 40 grantees!

Only a few days left to apply!

🌱Some more info on our Roots Funding Round.

🌻 Please head to our website for more info on the eligibility criteria and contact us if you need support with submitting your application.

Our Roots Funding Round open! Visit edgefund.org.uk/roots_fund_o... for more details. Pass it around to any grassroots group that may be eligible! (1/5)

🌱We've been busy and want to share some exciting updates with all our members and supporters! Thanks for helping us reach the goal of our crowdfunder. We will continue supporting small grassroots organisations that tend to fall out of the scope of the traditional philanthropic sector. (1/6)

Image with the question: How do Edge grants support grassroots organisations? And the testimony of Communities for Holistic, Accessible, Rights Based Mental Health - CHARM (Manchester, UK) reading: ’We used the funds to support our campaigning work and to pay for meeting spaces, a zoom account that has enabled us to hold our monthly CHARM society meetings, and support and planning groups. These are our engine rooms generating the actions and projects we have been running’. ‘We have been running a campaign in support of the patients at Edenfield Secure Psychiatric hospital who experienced horrific human rights abuses. We called for an independent inquiry and got widespread media coverage’ ‘We followed up with a presentation by people with lived experience to the Health Scrutiny Committee on the crisis in mental health services and we wrote our own response to the independent review finding, entitled Share Power to End the Abuse of Power’. Read more about CHARM’s work here https://charmmentalhealth.org/

📢 Wondering how an Edge Fund grant can support grassroots organisations? 🌱🌱Read it directly from Communities for Holistic, Affordable, Rights Based Mental Health (Manchester). Thanks to CHARM for the testimony!

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📮Get in touch
www.symaag.org.uk/about-us/
dignitynotdetention@yahoo.co.uk

‘Our ethos is to work with rather than for people in the asylum system, and this is what directs our campaigns and priorities’.

They are part of national coalitions and networks fighting for migration justice. Since 2007 they have campaigned for housing and healthcare for people seeking asylum while also supporting those in detention while demanding the closure of all detention centres.

💥 A migrant-led organisation formed by members from diverse nationalities and backgrounds including people with lived experience of the asylum system, researchers, campaigners and volunteers. They have campaigned locally against the hostile environment.

Dignity Not Detention!

Introducing our FR16 grantees! Know more about the South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social

Well done!!! A so much need victory for everyone!

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Join @symaag.bsky.social for a panel discussion with three local activists, exploring how their activism in their home countries informs their fight against the ‘hostile environment’ in the UK. ⬇️

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How Edge Fund grants support the grassroots groups? 'The grant went towards costs for our website and to produce a video to explain what was happening at Horse Hill Oil State' by Weald Action Group. The campaign had a historic win in 2024 as the Supreme Court judged that Surrey County Council acted unlawfully by giving planning permission for oil production at Horse Hill without considering the climate impacts from burning the extracted oil. This has far-reaching results against the UK fossil sector. 'This is a welcome step towards a safer, fairer future' Sarah, Weald Action Group. 'If Horse Hill is considered unlawful all new oil and gas projects should be!' Laure, from Stop Rosebank

How Edge Fund grants support the grassroots? Read it directly from @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social! Thanks for sharing this testimony: 'The grant went towards costs for our website and to produce a video to explain what was happening at Horse Hill Oil site'.

📮 Get in touch:
www.notohassockfield.org.uk
no2hassockfield@outlook.com
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🌿“We can hear Bob Marley’s song ‘Get Up, Stand Up’. Tell everyone we said thank you.” From one of the women inside Derwentside during the N2H three-year demo.

🔥N2H holds monthly protests & days of solidarity with women seeking asylum and refugees. They also provide skill-sharing sessions to support other campaigners with training essential.