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Impact of the rising cost of living on organisations we fund
At the beginning of 2023, we offered most organisations we fund a 10% uplift on their grant to support them with the rising cost of living. We asked those with higher incomes how rising costs are impacting their work. Esmée's Learning Officer, Philippa Wilkinson, shares a snapshot of what people told us.
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Funding in memory of Baroness Linklater of Butterstone
The Trustees of Esmée Fairbairn Foundation have made a grant of £160,000 to the charity Coram Family and Childcare in memory of Baroness Veronica Linklater, who was a Trustee of the Foundation from 1990 to 2013, and sadly died in December 2022.
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Foundation Practice Rating Year 2: How Esmée did
The Foundation Practice Rating (FPR) has published its second annual report assessing foundations on three areas of practice: diversity, accountability and transparency.
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Blue Spaces - Wales, Mannau Glas – Cymru: Call for expressions of interest
Blue Spaces – Wales is a new initiative to support imaginative approaches to looking after local freshwaters – rivers, streams, lakes, canals and ponds. As part of this, we're launching an open call for ideas and projects in Wales.
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Funder Commitment on Climate Change: 2022 update
Read our 2022 update on our work towards the six goals of the Funder Commitment on Climate Change.
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Invitation to Tender: mapping work on diversity in the environment sector
We are commissioning a review of existing and planned initiatives which aim to address a lack of diversity in the environment sector in the UK.
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Diversity, equity and inclusion: progress 2020 to 2022
A summary of key actions we have taken from 2020 to 2022 to make progress on our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Cost of living uplift
Caroline Mason, Esmée's Chief Executive shares her reflections on the additional support we are offering to most organisations we fund in response to the rising cost of living.
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Remembering Baroness Veronica Linklater
Baroness Veronica Linklater was a Trustee at Esmée Fairbairn Foundation from 1990 to 2013.
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