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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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🚨 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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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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🌊 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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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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🚨 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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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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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
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💡NEW REPORT: Insights from place-led funding 2, which shares learning on three large scale initiatives we supported in three places:

📍Sandwell
📍Plymouth
📍Barking and Dagenham

👉 esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...
October 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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📅 Join our webinar:

We’re hosting a webinar on 14 October 2025 to discuss the findings and share reflections from the review.

Find out more and register now: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...
October 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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How are organisations improving diversity, equity, and inclusion?❤️

We’re excited to share case studies from @yorkswildlife.bsky.social, JERICHO and the Centre for Sustainable Energy about work to support them on #DEI.

👉 Read the full case studies here: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...
October 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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🌊 From Decline to Revival: Restoring the UK Marine Environment

Join us on Monday 20 Oct for a webinar discussing key findings from our new two-part report with Pelagos, exploring how we can scale and sustain marine recovery across the UK.

👉 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Our latest newsletter is out 🚀

🌊 Marine restoration - new report and webinar
💼 We’re hiring a Lead Funding Manager
📊 Two new social investment tenders
🏆 UK Social Enterprise Awards

Plus more news from across the sector!

➡️ Read more: esmeefairbairnfoundation.createsend.com/t/t-e-gduuii...
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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📢 Seeking consultants for 2 short-term projects:

1️⃣ UK high-integrity carbon markets review
2️⃣ Big Nature Impact Fund due diligence

⏰ Apply by 10 Oct 2025

🔗 Find out more: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/about-esmee/...
September 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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🚨Join our team as Lead Funding Manager - A Fairer Future!

We're looking for an experienced funder who is committed to social justice and ambitious to help create change. This is a leadership role with a focus on Gender Justice and Children and Young People’s Rights.
September 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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🌱 How are UK businesses acting on nature? Join our webinar and expert panel to explore new research by Will McDonald for Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, as well as the launch of a practical guide to #NatureFinance. 📅 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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💖 Every child deserves to feel included at school.

We’re backing #InclusionForAll with The Difference and Impetus - Backing the best - calling on the UK government to:

✅ Embed inclusion in reforms
✅ Support children early
✅ Make inclusion everyone’s business
September 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨

Join our team as a Funding Officer in our Creative, Confident Communities (CCC) team and play a vital role in supporting place-led change - where local people can exercise greater power over their economic, social, cultural and environmental futures.
September 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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📢 Invitation to Tender

We’re looking for an external consultant (or team) to carry out a short review of our Community-led art and creativity strategy.

🗓 27 days’ work, October 2025 – January 2026
💷 Budget: £20,000
⏰ Deadline: 5pm, Mon 22 Sept 2025
September 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🗣️ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Support Webinar

🗓️ 14 October, 2pm: Join us to explore what works and doesn’t work when supporting DEI work in organisations. You’ll hear what organisations would do differently, what funders could do better, and ask your own questions.
August 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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🚨Vital conversations about violence against women and girls (VAWG) are being hijacked by an anti-migrant agenda.

We're proud to join 200 organisations in urging the Government to address this dangerous weaponisation of VAWG.

A link to a news story is here: www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Not in our name. 200 organisations unite to warn against the weaponisation of violence against women and girls. Logos include the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Hibiscus, Southall Black Sisters, and Women for Regugee Women Facts about violence against women and girls in the UK: 1 in 3 will experience domestic violence, 2 women are murdered by a partner or ex-partner every 8 days, over 90% of perpetrators of rape and sexual assault are known to their victims, 1 in 2 rapes against women are carried our by a partner or ex-partner, women who are subjected to No Recourse to Public Funds are 3 times more likely to experience VAWG, 1 in 2 victims of stalking are stalked by a current or ex-intimate partner, Over 90% of stalking perpetrators are known to their victims.
August 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🚫🌿 New research from Pesticide Action Network UK 🌿🚫

PAN UK's new research, based on 368 Freedom of Information requests, reveals that most UK councils still use pesticides in public spaces like parks, playgrounds, pavements, playing fields, and housing estates.
July 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM