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07 June 2023Acting on feedback: what we've done so far
After asking for your views on Esmée, we wanted to share back the steps we've taken so far to improve our processes and the information we share.
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Update to Esmée’s expression of interest form
We are making a couple of updates to our expression of interest form for applicants, which will be in place from 26 June. Applicants submitting an expression of interest before this date will still be able to do so using our existing form.
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Invitation to Tender: review of Nature friendly farming
We're looking for someone to carry out a review to inform how we deliver our Nature friendly farming strategy.
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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 the UK Women and Girls Sector: Where Does the Money Go?
Research commissioned by Rosa, the National Lottery Community Fund and Esmée maps the UK women and girls' sector and its funding. Annabel Durling, Funding Manager at Esmée, shares her reflections on the report's findings.
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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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