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10 September 2020
Insights from our response to COVID-19

In this Insights report, we summarise how we responded to COVID-19 and what we learned about ourselves as a funder as well as what organisations we support have told us about how they've managed and some of the risks they now face.
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09 September 2020
Revising our strategy - update

An update on our new strategy, which we plan to launch in October 2020.
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08 June 2020
Insights in Brief: Social Investment and COVID-19

A new report sharing what we've learned from our social investments in light of Coronavirus, and how we could use this to inform the stages of rescue, recovery and revival.
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29 May 2020
Our Annual Report for 2019

Read our 2019 Annual Report, which gives an overview of Esmee's year - our operations, funding and investments.
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24 April 2020
Caroline Mason: Esmée Fairbairn’s response to coronavirus

Read about our response to Coronavirus
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15 April 2020
Coronavirus - Grants Plus support

Find out how we've adapted our Grants Plus offer to support current grantees and investees.
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14 April 2020
Coronavirus - funding and reassurance

Find out about what actions we have taken in response to Coronavirus including the £16m additional funding we are making available this year.
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04 March 2020
Arts & Culture Impact Fund

Building on the success of the Arts Impact Fund, this new fund is the most ambitious of its kind globally, with an investment pool of £20 million.
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15 January 2020
John Sydney Fairbairn 1934 - 2020

On behalf of everyone at Esmée Fairbairn Foundation it is with great sadness that we have to announce the death of John Sydney Fairbairn on 12 January 2020.
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15 October 2019
James Hughes-Hallett CMG 1949 - 2019

On behalf of everyone at Esmée Fairbairn Foundation it is with very great sadness that we have to announce the death of James Hughes-Hallett who had been our Chair since 2013 and a Trustee for fourteen years.
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