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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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    Championing peat and restoring peatland at scale

    Jenny Dadd, Funding Manager and Our Natural World Lead shares what we’ve been doing – working alongside our amazing partners – to champion peat as a climate superpower and restore peatland at scale.

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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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    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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    Introducing our Involving Young People Collective’s newest change-makers

    Kimberly Garande writes about her experience so far since joining Esmée’s Involving Young People Collective, and we also hear from the three other new young change-makers who have joined.

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    Foundation Practice Rating shows we have more to do

    We welcome the findings of the first Foundation Practice Rating report, which we think can support individual funders – including Esmée – to be more accountable, more transparent, and to make real progress on diversity, equity and inclusion.

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    Funder Commitment on Climate Change: 2021 update

    Read our 2021 update on our work towards the six goals of the Funder Commitment on Climate Change.

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    Invitation to tender: Communications support for community-led freshwater campaigns

    We are seeking a PR and Comms agency to support an informal network of community-led freshwater campaign groups who share our goal of improving and protecting freshwater environments, and whose voice and work are critical to achieving it.

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    Our commitment and strategy to be net zero

    We have made a commitment that our investment portfolio will be net zero in terms of carbon emissions by 2040 at the latest.

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