Principles of Working Together

Meeting date: Thursday 25th September 2025

Meeting focus: RFF Principles of Working Together

📝 Notes:

• Aala presented the ‘Principles of Working Together’ shaped by the RFF residents panel: https://regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk/principles-of-working

• These principles describe our aims for working as a team and also with our partner organisations and wider networks - including our Board of Funders, and anybody who engages with RFF moving forward.

• It’s important to understand we have a zero-tolerance policy for these principles. This means that organisations that breach this collective agreement will be asked to leave the RFF application process and networks.

• There was support in the group for projects/orgs wanting to collaborate to learn together about intersectionality and racial equity. Mairi has created a Slack channel (#intersectionality_racial-equity) as a space for you to self-organise (e.g. training). Here’s how to join the channel.

• Reminder to move communications to Slack. If any of your colleagues have not yet joined, please share this link with them.

✅ Actions:

• Read the ‘Principles of Working Together’ shaped by the residents panel, and sign on to it through the link (should take 5-10 minutes).

• Send your clusters ranking on Slack if you haven’t yet (you can send Mairi a direct message).  Remember this isn’t an exact science; we just want to make sure there are an equal number of projects reviewed by each resident panel (one for each cluster):

  • We're asking for groups to share (via Slack) their rankings of how they think they fit into the 3 themes - just futures, community voice, environment. An example of the response we want from you is just a simple line: We're Edinburgh Climate Group and our order is 1) climate 2) community voice 3) just futures