Unlocking change
Effervescent
We aim to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK
We do this by contributing all that we can to unlock change by people and organisations with brilliant ideas who share our goals.
You can explore our impact goals and priorities for the first five years for each aim below.
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Our Natural World
We want to ensure that our natural world is restored and protected and that people benefit from that recovery. Through our work, we want to make a significant difference on climate change.
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A Fairer Future
We want to contribute to a just and anti-racist society, where those who need it most have their rights protected, the opportunity to speak and be heard, and the freedom to express their creativity.
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Creative, Confident Communities
We want to strengthen the bonds in communities, helping local people to build vibrant, confident places where they can fulfil their creative, human and economic potential.
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Using all our tools
Working in collaboration with others, we use all our tools to achieve our goals. So, in addition to funding brilliant organisations through grants and social investment, we are taking a more active role ourselves: brokering alliances, using our influence and removing barriers.
Our support
In partnership
Using our experience and expertise, we work in partnership with other funders and organisations to co-design solutions and influence larger initiatives so that we can effect broader change. This includes exploring new approaches to funding to increase our reach and share learning. Examples include our funding partnerships such as the Act for Change Fund, Local Motion and Arts and Culture Impact Fund.
Funding partnershipsLearn more about our work
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Our portfolio
We publish all our grants and social investments on 360Giving, an initiative that aims to help UK funders share their data in an open and standard format online.
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Insights and learning
We share insights from our work along with research and evaluation we've commissioned, and key publications from work we fund.
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You might be interested in
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29 November 2021Building an impact-first social investment strategy
We outline what our impact-first approach to social investment means in practice, and we share what we’ve learned, both the challenges and opportunities, from its evolution.
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Creative, Confident Communities: update to our strategy
As our work for Creative, Confident Communities has developed, we have updated our strategy to better reflect what we hope to achieve and the types of work we are looking to support.
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Insights from place-led funding
In a new report, we share learning from the place-led funding we’ve done over the past five years, which has informed and shaped our strategy in Creative, Confident Communities.
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Celebrating 60 years of Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
In 2021, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation turns 60. We wanted to take some time to reflect over the last 60 years, and to celebrate the breadth of our work and all that we have achieved working with so many brilliant people and partners.
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