Our Support

Convening and connecting

Campaign Bootcamp

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

We support collaborations like that bring people together from the voluntary, public or corporate sectors to deliver collective change. Working with partners, we also convene people ourselves when we want to make a difference on an issue.

We want to use our ability to bring people together to help us effect broader change.

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    Young People Leaving Care funding: Learning Programme

    A Learning Programme runs alongside our Young People Leaving Care funding stream to facilitate learning between grantees, and to draw out collective insight to help improve the wider care leaver system.

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    Supporting employees with lived experience

    Since 2023, along with Peer Power Youth and Place Matters, we have hosted a peer learning group dedicated to leaders of organisations with a significant portion of staff with lived experience of the issues they work in. This report by Lizzies Lines shares the group's learning journey so far.

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    Webinar: Reimagining leadership in the environment sector

    Watch a webinar we held on 29 January 2026 with Common Purpose and Makani Cambridge, who have been leading work to reimagine leadership in the environment sector and promote a more diverse and equitable sector. You’ll also learn about next steps and how you can get involved.

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    Webinar: Business action on nature in the UK and guide to nature finance

    We're pleased to share a new report by Will McDonald for Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, which explores how business in the UK is taking action on nature and the drivers behind it. You can also find a practical guide to the different types of nature finance and watch our webinar where we explore the findings.

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    Webinar: Effective partnership working

    Watch a webinar we hosted with Take Note exploring a series of practical tools and approaches they've developed to support more equitable and impactful partnership work.

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    Webinar: Diversity, equity and inclusion support

    Watch a webinar we held on 14 October 2025 to discuss the findings and share reflections from our review of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) support provided to organisations we fund through Funding Plus.

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    Webinar: Learning from Esmée’s Blue Spaces programme

    Watch a webinar we held on 11 December to explore learning from Esmée's Blue Spaces programme, which was established to support communities to take action to improve their local freshwaters.

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    Seascapes: Restoring the UK marine environment

    We’re excited to share a new two-part report by Pelagos Consulting on how to scale and sustain marine recovery across the UK. Watch our webinar with the report's author, David Tudor, to explore the findings. Morven Robertson, Esmée’s Funding Manager, also reflects on what this means for our future approach to funding and support towards seascapes.

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    Environmental Finance and Learning Fund: increasing the supply of nature-first investment

    Jenny Sansom from Environmental Funders Network and Tom Colborne from Esmée share their reflections on the Environmental Finance and Learning Fund, a three-year initiative to build confidence and skills in environmental investing, and increase the amount of funding for impactful environmental projects.

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Funding in partnership

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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