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Regenerative Futures Fund Programme in the United Kingdom

Deadline: 22-Apr-25

The Regenerative Futures Fund Programme is a ten-year community fund for Edinburgh that puts decision-making power into the hands of those who are most often excluded.

This fund is designed by and for people in their own communities. The funding will give grassroots organisations, collectives and movements the opportunity to think and plan for the long-term, tackling the root causes of poverty, racism and the environmental crisis.

Goals
  • The Fund will:
    • Support organisations and collectives to work on long-term solutions to the complex problem of tackling the root causes of poverty, racism and the environmental crisis.
    • Engage with local authority leaders, funders and others to learn and collaborate with funded organisations on shared objectives and wider system change
    • Support a more diverse and experience-informed group of voices to shape change and direct resources towards the programme goals
    • Create new solutions to long-term entrenched challenges faced by Edinburgh and its diverse communities
    • Which will mean that:
      • Edinburgh residents see improvements in their financial security, future prospects, and natural environment, with a more tolerant society in place
      • Residents living in poverty in Edinburgh are empowered to play a central role in improving the lives of people living in poverty and experiencing racism. They increase their skills and confidence, and their influence, either through new paid roles or setting up or joining in campaigns/movements, and
      • Movements and grassroots community organisations have the resources and networks they need to develop a powerful voice in Edinburgh, and the space to imagine a better future and begin to shape it.
Funding Information
  • Regenerative Futures Fund will fund 10-15 organisations over ten years and start making grants in 2025.
  • In Spring 2025 around 25 organisations and collectives will be invited to take part in Phase One, a capacity-building programme with development grants of up to £10,000. This phase is designed to ensure that organisations can take their time (and be funded during this phase) to work out what they need to have in place to be ready for a 10-year programme. This will differ for each organisation and will respond to individual organisational needs.
  • Following the capacity-building phase, 10-15 organisations will go on to Phase Two and will be offered funding at a level of up to £100,000 a year for 10 years (2025 – 2035).
What will be funded?
  • This programme is for movements, collectives and grassroots organisations who are committed to the deep and long-term work needed to address the root causes of and the intersection between poverty, racism and climate change and to create spaces for people to collectively imagine and build towards a regenerative and just future for Edinburgh.
  • The fund will be delivered in two phases – capacity building (funding for approx. 25 organisations) followed by the 10-year fund (funding for 10-15 organisations).
  • The fund specifically seeks to fund movements, collectives and grassroots organisations that might otherwise be excluded from funding, while prioritising potential for impact and centring equity in decision-making.  To that end, they are open to funding organisations across the spectrum of development (from new, unconstituted groups, to older, established organisations).
Eligibility Criteria
  • Organisations that are eligible:
    • Collectives, movements and grassroots organisations located in the City of Edinburgh, with strong links to local community
    • Collectives, movements and grassroots organisations working locally to address the root causes of poverty, racism and/or climate change (and the intersection of these issues)
    • Collectives, movements and grassroots organisations committed to collaborating with others through a programme of shared learning and imagination activities throughout the 10-year programme
    • A minimum threshold of 50% of the full cohort of funded organisations will be led by Black and People of Colour
Ineligibility Criteria
  • Organisations that are not eligible:
    • Organisations and projects focused on the replacement of statutory services that the council or other public sector bodies should be delivering
    • Organisations and projects whose primary purpose is the furthering of a religion (although faith groups can participate as community organisations in collectives working to the fund’s aims)
    • Organisations whose work is focused outside of the City of Edinburgh

For more information, visit Regenerative Futures Fund.