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.

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/

The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban. Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵 reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...

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.

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

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.

🚨 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.

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.

❓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...

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...

🏆 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

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

This is good news - well done to everyone involved 🙌

Catch up on our DEI webinar - now available to watch and read! 🚨 Last week, we hosted a webinar exploring insights from our review of how Funding Plus supports organisations to strengthen diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). 🎥 Watch the recording now: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...

💡NEW REPORT: Insights from place-led funding 2, which shares learning on three large scale initiatives we supported in three places: 📍Sandwell 📍Plymouth 📍Barking and Dagenham 👉 esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...

🚜 #Farm491 Challenge 2025 - Apply now! This year’s theme promotes innovations that enable nature-friendly, multifunctional land-use. 🦋 🏆 Win £40k + 12 months of business mentoring from Farm491 (supported by @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social) Sign up by 23 Oct 👉 agricology.co.uk/applications...

How are organisations improving diversity, equity, and inclusion?❤️ We’re excited to share case studies from @yorkswildlife.bsky.social, JERICHO and the Centre for Sustainable Energy about work to support them on #DEI. 👉 Read the full case studies here: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...

🌊 From Decline to Revival: Restoring the UK Marine Environment Join us on Monday 20 Oct for a webinar discussing key findings from our new two-part report with Pelagos, exploring how we can scale and sustain marine recovery across the UK. 👉 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

20 Stories High are looking for new Artistic Leadership! They'll work alongside our Co-CEO/Executive Director & drive the company forward with ambitious, excellent & equitable theatre & art for culturally diverse, working-class young people & communities. www.20storieshigh.org.uk/artistic-lea...

Our latest newsletter is out 🚀 🌊 Marine restoration - new report and webinar 💼 We’re hiring a Lead Funding Manager 📊 Two new social investment tenders 🏆 UK Social Enterprise Awards Plus more news from across the sector! ➡️ Read more: esmeefairbairnfoundation.createsend.com/t/t-e-gduuii...

📢 Seeking consultants for 2 short-term projects: 1️⃣ UK high-integrity carbon markets review 2️⃣ Big Nature Impact Fund due diligence ⏰ Apply by 10 Oct 2025 🔗 Find out more: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/about-esmee/...

School exclusions are a form of structural racism, and indicate deep failings within educational settings, our latest report with Communities Empowerment Network details 🧵

🚨Join our team as Lead Funding Manager - A Fairer Future! We're looking for an experienced funder who is committed to social justice and ambitious to help create change. This is a leadership role with a focus on Gender Justice and Children and Young People’s Rights.

🌱 How are UK businesses acting on nature? Join our webinar and expert panel to explore new research by Will McDonald for Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, as well as the launch of a practical guide to #NatureFinance. 📅 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

💖 Every child deserves to feel included at school. We’re backing #InclusionForAll with The Difference and Impetus - Backing the best - calling on the UK government to: ✅ Embed inclusion in reforms ✅ Support children early ✅ Make inclusion everyone’s business

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 Join our team as a Funding Officer in our Creative, Confident Communities (CCC) team and play a vital role in supporting place-led change - where local people can exercise greater power over their economic, social, cultural and environmental futures.

New blog: A Look Inside the New Connections Programme ✨ Do it Now Now , the Learning Partner for our New Connections Programme, has shared a new blog exploring the challenges smaller, community-led organisations face in accessing funding. 👉 Read more: www.doitnownow.com/news/feature...

🏆UK Social Enterprise Awards 2025🏆 We’re hugely proud to be sponsoring the UK Social Enterprise Awards 2025, the biggest celebration of businesses with a social or environmental purpose on 26th Nov. Congratulations to all the finalists! ➡️ socialenterprise.org.uk/news-and-vie...

⚖️ New report: Funding Women’s Access to Justice A new report from the Corston Independent Funders’ Coalition maps collective funding towards women’s access to justice, raising key questions for funders. 👉 Read the full report: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...

The Millennium Building on Union Street, Plymouth, is set for transformation. A £600k joint investment from Resonance & @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social + a £480k Youth Investment Fund grant, will enable its redevelopment into community spaces including a music venue & café bar. ow.ly/uuH950WUmzr

📢 Invitation to Tender We’re looking for an external consultant (or team) to carry out a short review of our Community-led art and creativity strategy. 🗓 27 days’ work, October 2025 – January 2026 💷 Budget: £20,000 ⏰ Deadline: 5pm, Mon 22 Sept 2025

We're delighted to announce the grantees of the first round of the reimagined @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social Communities and Collections Fund 🙌 The fund supports projects using museum collections to improve inclusion and equitable working with community partners. Congratulations to our awardees 👇

🗣️ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Support Webinar 🗓️ 14 October, 2pm: Join us to explore what works and doesn’t work when supporting DEI work in organisations. You’ll hear what organisations would do differently, what funders could do better, and ask your own questions.

📄🌍New IEEP UK report on UK-EU environmental divergence since Brexit This morning, IEEP UK launched its annual ‘Divergence in UK/EU Environmental Policy: State of Play’ report, which tracks legislative divergence across nine different thematic policy areas since the UK left the EU.

We welcome last week’s statement from the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) on April’s UK Supreme Court judgment. You can read it here: www.scottishhumanrights.com/media/3044/p...

For too long, the issues women workers on the Seasonal Worker Scheme experience have gone ignored. Our latest briefing directly confronts the realities that migrant women are facing in the fields. Read the briefing: labourexploitation.org/publications...

A new report by the Institute for European Environmental Policy tracks the environmental impact of legislative divergence in 9 policy areas, looking at where the UK has fallen behind as well as where things have improved. It also shares 5 recommendations. ➡️https://ieep.uk/divergence-state-of-play/

🚨Vital conversations about violence against women and girls (VAWG) are being hijacked by an anti-migrant agenda. We're proud to join 200 organisations in urging the Government to address this dangerous weaponisation of VAWG. A link to a news story is here: www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

This article sets the record straight about Schools of Sanctuary — and why it’s rooted in kindness, inclusion, and safety for everyone: www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

This International Youth Day, we’re finalising plans for the first meeting of our Future Generations Panel. The panel is an essential part of how we’re bringing the experiences and thoughts of young adults front and centre of our collaborative investing project. #InternationalYouthDay #YouthVoice

Divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language are letting hate spread. Our leaders must stop fuelling racism and build a country where everyone, no matter where they're from, can feel safe. Proud to be one of the 200+ names on this, from @refugeestogether.bsky.social 👇

A #MustRead from Newcastle University on the decline of small fishing boats from UK shores, the impact on their local communities, and what's needed to stem the loss 🐟 theconversation.com/the-uk-is-lo... More on their work here: nicre.co.uk/projects/par...

EXCITING! A Migrant's Guide is now available in English, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Spanish, Farsi & Pashto for £3 per copy.⁠ Created by migrants, for migrants, the guide connects people to essential services, offers practical advice, and so much more.⁠ 📩Contact [email protected] to order

As we witness violent demonstrations erupting in Epping, Norwich, Altrincham and other parts of UK, we call on funders to engage with the following asks for investment and support ... Read our joint letter: www.frealliance.org.uk/news-and-pub...

🚫🌿 New research from Pesticide Action Network UK 🌿🚫 PAN UK's new research, based on 368 Freedom of Information requests, reveals that most UK councils still use pesticides in public spaces like parks, playgrounds, pavements, playing fields, and housing estates.

❓Did you know that hundreds of thousands of people are forced to wait over 10 years for the right to permanently settle in the place they already call home? And it’s about to get worse. 🧵

Today, over 350 community leaders delivered a stark warning: our democracy is in crisis. Ahead of the anniversary of last year’s riots, we handed in an open letter to No.10 warning that without action to address widespread feelings of disempowerment, we could see more social unrest. 🧵 1/3

Cunliffe Review calls for pollution policy overhaul, but a key threat is missing from the report- the continued growth in the number and size of intensive livestock units. ▶️ Sustain responds to new report on the prevention of water pollution for England and Wales www.sustainweb.org/news/jul25-c...

Our latest newsletter is out 🚀 Read more about: 📊 Esmée's 2024 Annual Report 🎥 Pre-application Q&A webinar on 17 Sept 🌊 New mid-strategy review of Freshwater support ✍️ New blog on youth power 🚨 We’re hiring: Funding Manager – A Fairer Future createsend.com/t/t-114E3C27...

How do we ensure nature has the investment needed to restore it? Join us at #WildSummitUK on 11 September for a session on green finance with @shaunspiers1.bsky.social, @wwf.org.uk’s Karen Ellis, Baroness Kathy Willis & Kerry ten Kate of Finance Earth Book via wildsummituk.eventbrite.co.uk 🎟️