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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22 July 2021Addressing the lack of diversity in the environment sector
We're pleased to share a new report from our Involving Young People Collective summarising the discussions at a hackathon on addressing the lack of diversity in the environment sector. We also share our reflections on what we learned and our next steps for making progress on this.
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Esmée announces new Director of Creative Confident Communities and A Fairer Future
We're thrilled to announce the appointment of Veda Harrison as our new Director of Creative, Confident Communities and A Fairer Future.
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£1.8m Reinvent Performing Arts funding awarded to 40 arts organisations
We're excited to announce 40 new grants worth £1.8m, which we have made through Reinvent Performing Arts funding. This one-off funding is part of our response to the pandemic and provides additional support to some of our grantees as they re-open and lockdown eases.
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Annual Report and Accounts 2020
Read our latest Annual Report, which gives an overview of our operations, funding and investments in 2020.
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