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Using all the tools in our toolbox

Participatory City

We use all our tools to unlock change

We want to play an active role ourselves in responding to the critical issues facing our society. As a funder we have a range of tools – including grants and investments - we can use to effect change.

We will now use all our tools to broker alliances, use our influence and remove barriers to achieve our impact goals.

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    Grants

    We support organisations' charitable work with unrestricted, core and project grants. Learn more about our approach to funding and what you can expect from us.

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    Social Investment

    We use social investment as a tool, alongside our grants and our own actions, to achieve our impact goals. Learn more about our social investment opportunities.

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    Funding Plus

    Funding Plus is funding for capacity building provided to organisations we fund to help them achieve greater impact. The maximum Funding Plus award is £9,000.

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    Funding partnerships

    We want to be at the forefront of new approaches to funding - working in partnership with other funders and organisations to increase our reach and make more of a difference.

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    Infrastructure support

    We want to enable a sector fit for the future by supporting work that contributes to our impact goals and work across our aims by enabling a stronger, inclusive and innovative sector.

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    Impact Investing

    Insights and learning from our impact investing, which we hope is helpful to others looking to be more impact-driven through their investment strategy.

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    Convening and connecting

    We connect people and organisations to foster dialogue, share learning, create joint opportunities and develop new, collective approaches. We also work in partnership ourselves.

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    Impact and learning

    Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is a charity with our own mission and strategy, but we do nothing alone – we fund or work with others to achieve our goals. So how can we evaluate whether our work is making a difference?

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    Communications about our funding

    Guidance for organisations we work with on communications about our funding, including logo files, press release quotes, and how to get in touch with our Communications team.

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    Feedback

    We gather regular, anonymous feedback on the way we work at key points, and survey all applicants and organisations we fund every other year.

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    Safeguarding

    Learn about our approach to safeguarding at each stage of our funding process.

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    Our funding data

    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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Useful sector resources

Find useful sector resources on a range of topics including legal, fundraising, campaigning, digital and safeguarding.

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