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    A Fairer Future – developing a new strategy

    Veda Harrison, Director of Creative, Confident Communities and A Fairer Future, shares our new strategy for A Fairer Future. We will open to applications in A Fairer Future in October 2022.

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    Using Most Significant Change to understand outcomes for young people leaving care

    We asked the Centre for Youth Impact to run a series of workshops on ‘Most Significant Change’ for organisations on Esmée’s Young People Leaving Care Learning Programme. Learn more about the approach and read the stories of change from participants.

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    How we work with the Involving Young People Collective

    Catherine Hillis, Esmée’s children and young people lead outlines how we’re working with the Involving Young People Collective to improve our practice and support for young people.

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    What do people think about Esmée Fairbairn Foundation 2022

    Read the key findings and recommendations from research we commissioned nfpResearch to do on what people think about Esmée. Gina Crane, our Director of Communications and Learning, shares her reflections on the research findings, alongside what's next for Esmée.

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    Our Annual Report and Accounts for 2021

    Read our 2021 Annual Report, which gives an overview of our operations, funding and investments during 2021.

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    Working towards a more diverse, inclusive and equitable environment sector

    We know that we cannot address the climate and nature crises without also addressing injustice and inequity in the environment sector. In a new blog, we share what we’ve been doing to support a more diverse, inclusive and equitable environment sector.

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    Our strategy for A Fairer Future – an update

    Our A Fairer Future funding will now be closed to new applications until the autumn of 2022. We remain open to applications in Our Natural World and Creative, Confident Communities.

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    Financing nature's recovery – the £43 billion question

    In the second of our blogs on our roadmap for improving Our Natural World, Liam McAleese, Director of Our Natural World, shares what we’ve been doing to secure more money to finance nature’s recovery.

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    Our roadmap for improving our natural world – what more can we do?

    To improve Our Natural World, we have developed a roadmap we have been working to. In a series of blogs, we share how we are getting on as well as our plans for the coming year.

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