Supporting the UK’s most biodiverse regions – what’s at stake?
Inspired by our new UKOTs learning series, this piece explores some of the UK's most biodiverse regions, why we need to protect them, and how funders can get involved.
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Posts from a range of voices on fostering an effective environmental movement.
How funders and EFN can support youth-led organisations catalysing youth-led nature recovery
Jack Durant, the Co-Founder & Co-Director of Youngwilders, shares how funders and EFN stepped up to help their youth-led organisation in its early days by providing much more than financial support and helping them grow more effectively.
Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, effectiveness, fundraising, youth
Demystifying impact investing: an interview with impact investor, Shishir Malhotra
Shishir Malhotra, the Impact Investment Director for Treebeard Trust, joins us to demystify impact investing. He shares his personal story of how he got into investing, explains why it can work alongside philanthropy, offers some tips for beginners and explains why the free Environmental Impact Investing Group (EIIG) can help.
Clamping down on illicit finance: new opportunities to protect nature and accelerate the climate transition
Alex Jacobs, Executive Director of the Joffe Trust, reveals the truth about illicit finance, how it funds anti-environment forces and why funders can both help stop dirty money and accelerate a just climate transition around the world.
Planning to save the planet
Kat Jones from Action to Protect Rural Scotland raises awareness of Scotland's new planning system, National Planning Framework 4, and how it could better address the environmental and nature crises.
How gender-based violence affects environmental action | #IWD2024
This #InternationalWomensDay, we wanted to spotlight this incredibly important intersection: how gender-based violence affects environmental action.
Can we talk about organisations and not just projects?
CEO of Pilotlight, Ed Mayo, shares findings from their new research, 'The organisational needs of charities and social enterprises in the UK working on climate and sustainability'. In this survey of 298 organisations, Pilotlight shows the huge range of professional development and support needed with Ed proposing that funding organisations rather than projects is key to fill in this gap.
Moving our finances out of fossil fuels
Following a decision by staff and trustees, in late 2023, we closed our business bank account with HSBC after reporting showed that they are still heavily financing fossil fuels. This blog shares our decision, the full letter and further resources for those interested in greening their finances as well.
Where’s the funding for council and community climate action?
Climate Emergency UK have recently published the first-ever UK-wide assessment of local government climate action: the Council Climate Action Scorecards. The results? Not good - the average council scored 32% on the actions they have taken towards net zero. Annie Pickering from Climate Emergency UK shares the barriers to local climate action and why funders can spark real progress on local government's journey to net zero.
Keywords: climate change, communities, fundraising, government
The Challenge of Light Pollution
Climate change and the destruction of entire ecosystems attract most of our attention. But we face another environmental threat - one which is insidious and fast-growing: light pollution.
Keywords: bugs, climate change, collaboration, light pollution
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