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Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
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We aim to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK.
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Esmée Fairbairn Foundation @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social · 11d
Our latest newsletter is out 🚀

💜 Wellbeing – funding to support staff & volunteer wellbeing
🌊 Blue Spaces – improving local freshwaters
🏛️ Communities & Collections Fund – apply by 21 Jan
👩‍💼 Funding Ops Admin – apply by 17 Dec
🏆 Congrats to Social Enterprise Awards winners!
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Don’t miss our new webinar! 💧

Join us on Thursday 11 December 2025, 2:00–3:15pm for an inspiring session exploring how communities are making a difference for local freshwaters.

👉 Find out more and register now: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...
Learning from Esmée’s Blue Spaces programme: Webinar on 11 December
We're hosting a webinar 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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December 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Are you using sport or play to support positive outcomes for young people in London? 🏙️

Go! London is inviting organisations of all sizes to apply for two new Open Innovation Challenges.

Learn more and apply by 17 February 2026: golondon.org.uk/open-innovat...
Open Innovation Challenges
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December 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Following our 2024 applicant survey with @nfp_Research, today we’re sharing the steps we’ve taken in 2025 to improve our guidance, strengthen our DEI work, and be clearer about how we invite applications. 📣

Read the full update: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...
Acting on feedback: what we’ve done in 2025
After hearing your feedback, we’re sharing the actions we’ve taken in 2025 to improve our processes, make our guidance clearer, and support a more inclusive approach.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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🌱 Today we join the ‪Sustainable Soils Alliance in celebrating World Soil Day! Healthy soil = resilient food systems, thriving cities & climate security. Together, we can protect & restore the ground beneath our feet. 🌍💚
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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🚨 We’re hiring a Funding Operations Administrator to help keep our funding processes running smoothly and provide administrative support.

📍Where: Kings Cross, London (2 days a week) / Hybrid
💷 Salary: £29k
🗓️ Applications close: 17 December 2025

👉 www.prospect-us.co.uk/job/193605-f...
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Our latest newsletter is out 🚀

💜 Wellbeing – funding to support staff & volunteer wellbeing
🌊 Blue Spaces – improving local freshwaters
🏛️ Communities & Collections Fund – apply by 21 Jan
👩‍💼 Funding Ops Admin – apply by 17 Dec
🏆 Congrats to Social Enterprise Awards winners!
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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💛 National Care Leavers Month 💛

As the first-ever National Care Leavers Month wraps up this weekend, we’re celebrating the progress, the voices, and the powerful work happening across the country. Here are some standout highlights and resources you won’t want to miss:
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Our new report, Supporting organisations to prioritise wellbeing, shows that compassionate, people-centred workplaces are more resilient, sustainable, and better equipped to support their communities💓

Read the full report: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/supporting-o...
Picture of Esmée staff doing some planting with text: In 2024, we offered £5,000 in wellbeing awards to 52 of the organisations we grant fund to help them prioritise the wellbeing of their staff and volunteers. A year later, we surveyed the recipients to learn how they used the funding and what impact it had. The findings in this report are based on feedback from the 22 organisations that responded to the survey. Text: Impact of the wellbeing awards. 91% of organisations used the wellbeing award to introduce new or different wellbeing initiatives. The flexibility of the funding was highly valued, with each organisation tailoring their approach to suit its unique needs and ways of working: 3 in 4 survey respondents used some or all the award to support connection through away days, wellbeing retreats, and social and team building activities. All organisations reported improved team cohesion and relationships because of the award. 3 in 4 survey respondents used some or all the award for individual care work Over half highlighted the positive impact of the support on individual wellbeing, with access to tailored offers and personal wellbeing budgets leaving staff feeling empowered, valued, and optimistic. The support was credited with strengthening team dynamics and enhancing workplace culture, which in turn boosted productivity and resilience while reducing staff burnout and absences. Text: Recommendations for funders. Provide long-term, ring-fenced funding for wellbeing, not just in times of crisis Treat wellbeing as a core cost. Provide unrestricted multi-year grants with an annual wellbeing component. Reflect wellbeing in funder behaviour and practice. Offer guidance on effective and sustainable wellbeing strategies. Provide access to wellbeing practitioners, mentoring, courses, retreats, or healthcare packages. Quote from a survey respondent: Multi-year grants with a wellbeing component, or unrestricted funding that allows us to respond to emerging mental health needs, would make a significant difference in building a resilient and supported team capable of delivering high-impact, compassionate work.
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Breaking Down the Government’s New Asylum Proposals. Our latest blog focuses on what the Gov' wants to change, what this means in practice , & how communities can stay prepared. These are proposals, and not law. ow.ly/XzJJ50XucO8 #NoOneisIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall #MigrationisLife
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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🌊 In celebration of World Fisheries Day 2025, we're spotlighting a few organisations doing brilliant work towards more sustainable fisheries that supports habitat recovery and coastal communities. Swipe to learn more ➡️
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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There’s still time to apply for our Funding Manager role – Our Natural World 🌊🌿🚨

We’re hiring a Funding Manager to support our work on sustainable oceans. If you have marine and fisheries experience and want to help drive real environmental impact, we’d love to hear from you.
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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People seeking asylum in the UK deserve safety and dignity 🧡

Read our statement reiterating our support to organisations welcoming and supporting refugees in the UK. We also share responses from the sector about how the government's proposals on the asylum system will impact people.
People seeking asylum in the UK deserve safety and dignity At Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, we have been giving grants to organisations welcoming and supporting refugees in the UK for 30 years. Today we remain committed to migrant justice - to a society where migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum can all live in safety, in a place where their rights and dignity are protected. This week's statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy will take away support for people who are destitute, and the changes to family reunion and removal will have a disproportionate impact on women and children. Refugees have been living and thriving in communities across the UK for much longer than the 30 years Esmée has been supporting them. Migration is a vital part of UK life, and safe and legal routes should be a priority for those most in need of asylum and refuge in the UK. We will continue to support organisations working for this.
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Proud to join @thedifferenceed.bsky.social, @impetus.org.uk, and the growing list of schools and trusts backing #InclusionForAll. Looking forward to joining Inclusion for All supporters at #IncludEd2026.

Find out more and book your tickets for the event now: the-difference.com/included-2026/
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban.

Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵

reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Learning from Esmée’s Blue Spaces Programme 💧

Join us on 11 December 2025 for a webinar exploring learning from Esmée’s Blue Spaces programme, which was established to support communities to take action to improve their local freshwaters.
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Banning people from work has never made sense. The House of Lords couldn't understand it, and we don't either.

The Government is prepping asylum reforms RIGHT NOW. They must hear voters want an end to this absurd ban - not more irrational hostility:

📣 bit.ly/LTB-act
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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The investment period for our Arts & Culture Impact Fund (ACIF) has been extended until 2027!

Read more figurative.org.uk/news/major-i...

Thanks to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Better Society Capital, Nesta, @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social & Freelands Foundation.
Major impact investment fund for cultural and creative sector is extended for two years - Figurative
Figurative has announced that the investment period for its Arts & Culture Impact Fund (ACIF) has been extended until August 2027.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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🚨 We’re recruiting 🚨

Join our team as Funding Manager – Our Natural World! We’re looking for someone with strong experience in marine and fisheries work, who’s passionate about sustainable oceans and ready to help drive lasting environmental change.
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Asylum hotels and military barracks are awful places to live for people fleeing torture.

We didn’t rely on them to house asylum seekers five years ago – so why is our government using them now?

It’s time to change this and take action on asylum accommodation.
October 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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❓How can UK nations lead the way when it comes to fair, healthy and sustainable food and farming?

Join FFCC's NI Director John Woods for panel “Wales the odd one out and why it matters” at the Wales Real Food and Farming Conference.

👉Get tickets now: wrffc.wales/cynhadledd-2...
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Read our October newsletter featuring:

📍Insights from place-led funding

💜 Support for organisations on DEI

🌱 How businesses are taking action for nature

🐬 Scaling and sustaining UK marine restoration

Plus news from the sector!

👉 esmeefairbairnfoundation.createsend1.com/t/t-e-gkykll...
October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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🏆 UK River Prize 2026 – Now Open!
Celebrating innovation and excellence in river restoration across the UK.
5-minute application | Deadline: 19 Dec 2025
👉 Apply here: www.therrc.co.uk/uk-river-prize
Holnicote Estate Project - winners of the Nigel Holmes Trophy in 2025!
October 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline.

Give communities the power to fix broken Britain from the ground up.

🎥 Watch and share @right-here.org’s new film. vimeo.com/1128898994?s...

#CommunityPoweredPolitics #CommunityPower #Devolution
We're Right Here – Campaign Film
This film carries an urgent message: community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline. When people have real control over what happens in their…
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October 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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This is good news - well done to everyone involved 🙌
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We have long called for children’s welfare and survivors of domestic abuse to be prioritised in child contact cases in the family courts.

The Ministry of Justice announcement to repeal the presumption of parental involvement is a positive step forward.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Family law shift hailed as victory for children facing domestic abuse
‘Groundbreaking’ repeal of presumption of parental involvement in England and Wales ‘will ensure courts place safety of children above all else’
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October 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Catch up on our DEI webinar - now available to watch and read! 🚨

Last week, we hosted a webinar exploring insights from our review of how Funding Plus supports organisations to strengthen diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

🎥 Watch the recording now: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...
October 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM