Fund the frontlines of social change

The Social Change Nest will partner with you to deliver maximum impact for your money.

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Get funding to where it is needed, when it is needed

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We can

The Social Change Nest will partner with you to deliver maximum impact for your money.

  • Provide an easy and transparent way to get funds to an unincorporated organisation, network, movement or group.
  • Give you more flexibility and speed than your usual processes allow to fund a project.
  • Help you develop a participatory grant making programme, and somewhere to hold it.
  • Distribute funds internationally, to hard to reach communities.
  • Build disruptive funds that break traditional power dynamics and bring transformational change to the communities they serve.
  • Sign grant agreements acting as the agent for groups you would like to fund, and provide them with wraparound support in the delivery of your grant.
  • Increase your team and board’s knowledge of fiscal hosting and unincorporated groups, challenging internal attitudes towards risk-taking and getting buy-in.
  • Help you find groups leading change in specific areas of your interest.
  • Give you access to our community of 700+ groups to learn from their experiences and collaborate with them.
  • Co-create fair and equitable payment for involvement policies, and administer these payments for you.
Groups at a Social Change Nest session
We can — option 2 of 3, ten numbered cards on blue

We can

The Social Change Nest will partner with you to deliver maximum impact for your money.

01

Provide an easy and transparent way to get funds to an unincorporated organisation, network, movement or group.

02

Give you more flexibility and speed than your usual processes allow to fund a project.

03

Help you develop a participatory grant making programme, and somewhere to hold it.

04

Distribute funds internationally, to hard to reach communities.

05

Build disruptive funds that break traditional power dynamics and bring transformational change to the communities they serve.

06

Sign grant agreements acting as the agent for groups you would like to fund, and provide them with wraparound support in the delivery of your grant.

07

Increase your team and board’s knowledge of fiscal hosting and unincorporated groups, challenging internal attitudes towards risk-taking and getting buy-in.

08

Help you find groups leading change in specific areas of your interest.

09

Give you access to our community of 700+ groups to learn from their experiences and collaborate with them.

10

Co-create fair and equitable payment for involvement policies, and administer these payments for you.

We can — option 3 of 3, two columns of plain lines on cream

We can

The Social Change Nest will partner with you to deliver maximum impact for your money.

  1. Provide an easy and transparent way to get funds to an unincorporated organisation, network, movement or group.
  2. Give you more flexibility and speed than your usual processes allow to fund a project.
  3. Help you develop a participatory grant making programme, and somewhere to hold it.
  4. Distribute funds internationally, to hard to reach communities.
  5. Build disruptive funds that break traditional power dynamics and bring transformational change to the communities they serve.
  1. Sign grant agreements acting as the agent for groups you would like to fund, and provide them with wraparound support in the delivery of your grant.
  2. Increase your team and board’s knowledge of fiscal hosting and unincorporated groups, challenging internal attitudes towards risk-taking and getting buy-in.
  3. Help you find groups leading change in specific areas of your interest.
  4. Give you access to our community of 700+ groups to learn from their experiences and collaborate with them.
  5. Co-create fair and equitable payment for involvement policies, and administer these payments for you.

Where we fund

We have reached over 80 countries, across 6 continents. We would like to work with you to reach further.

World map showing the countries The Social Change Nest has funded groups in
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Hear from funders we have partnered with

Healthy Food, Healthy PlanetVideo
Healthy Food, Healthy PlanetClaudia Giampietri, Director
UMI FundVideo
UMI FundAnna Jones, Programme Manager

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Hear from funders we have partnered with

Healthy Food, Healthy Planet
Healthy Food, Healthy PlanetClaudia Giampietri, Director
UMI Fund
UMI FundAnna Jones, Programme Manager
A third funder
A third funderTo be filmed
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Hear from funders we have partnered with

Healthy Food, Healthy Planet
“What sets The Social Change Nest apart is their flexibility and commitment to minimising red tape while building genuine trust-based relationships with us and our partners. They are responsive, supportive, and focused on enabling our mission rather than creating administrative barriers.”
Claudia Giampietri, Director, Healthy Food, Healthy Planet
UMI Fund
“We have the shared goal of being able to support amazing campaigners and activists around the world with small grants that can be absolutely transformatory. We both understand that is a really powerful mechanism for change.”
Anna Jones, Programme Manager, UMI Fund

Our funders report that, thanks to The Social Change Nest

  • Their ability to consider unincorporated, grassroots groups as grantees improved.
  • They have been able to disburse grants more quickly and responsively.
  • They have been able to reduce the administrative burden of disbursing grants.
  • They have been able to make the process of granting more lean and efficient.
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What funders say about working with us

“What sets The Social Change Nest apart is their flexibility and commitment to minimising red tape while building genuine trust-based relationships with us and our partners. They are responsive, supportive, and focused on enabling our mission rather than creating administrative barriers.”

Claudia Giampietri, Director, Healthy Food, Healthy Planet

“We have the shared goal of being able to support amazing campaigners and activists around the world with small grants that can be absolutely transformatory. We both understand that is a really powerful mechanism for change.”

Anna Jones, Programme Manager, UMI Fund
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What funders say about working with us

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What sets The Social Change Nest apart is their flexibility and commitment to minimising red tape while building genuine trust-based relationships with us and our partners. They are responsive, supportive, and focused on enabling our mission rather than creating administrative barriers.

Claudia Giampietri, Director, Healthy Food, Healthy Planet
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We have the shared goal of being able to support amazing campaigners and activists around the world with small grants that can be absolutely transformatory. We both understand that is a really powerful mechanism for change.

Anna Jones, Programme Manager, UMI Fund

We have worked with

Changing Ideas

Changing Ideas

High Tide

High Tide

European Climate Foundation

European Climate Foundation

Lankelly Chase

Lankelly Chase

Blagrave

Blagrave

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Changing Ideas

Changing Ideas

High Tide

High Tide

European Climate Foundation

European Climate Foundation

Lankelly Chase

Lankelly Chase

Blagrave

Blagrave

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Changing Ideas

Changing Ideas

High Tide

High Tide

European Climate Foundation

European Climate Foundation

Lankelly Chase

Lankelly Chase

Blagrave

Blagrave

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

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