Community Organisations
Regenerative Futures Fund has not launched yet. We aim to launch the 10-year fund in 2025. When it launches it will provide unrestricted funding and support to groups of between 10 - 15 community organisations in Edinburgh for 10 years - between 2025 - 2035. The funding for each organisation will be up to £100,000 a year.
In 2024 we hope to launch Regenerative Futures Fund with a ‘capacity building programme’ - this means that organisations can take their time and be funded to work out what they need to have in place in order to be ready for a 10-year programme. This will differ for each organisation and will respond to individual needed.
How do I get involved?
At this stage the plan is that the fund will not start with a call for full written applications, but may have an ‘expression of interest’ stage - more on this soon.
It is important to note that the timescales and plans are dependant on reaching fundraising targets. The overall funding target is £15 million which is needed to be able to fund for 10-years. There is an earlier target of approx. £6 million which will hopefully be reached in summer 2024 which means the ‘capacity building programme’ can begin.
How we work with community organisations
Once the fund launches (2025 - 2035)
Organisations in the cohort will take part in a number of activities together such as:
Coming together as a group three to four times a year to share learning and take part in collective imagination activities.
Working alongside individual residents from the decision-making panel who are there to learn, challenge and hold organisations accountable.
Working with a learning partner who will design and support a framework for monitoring, evaluation and learning. Data and evidence will be collected and shared in creative ways.
Budget has also been allocated to provide support to organisations around areas such as communications, coaching, governance, data.
During the development phase (2022 - 2024)
During the development phase that started in 2022, a group of community organisations took part in the Community Organisation Learning Group. This group was made up of organisations of different sizes, working in Edinburgh on a wide range of themes and issues. The group were offered payment for their time to take part in sessions and they attended a range of facilitated sessions on topics such as fund design, theory of change, outcomes, open vs closed funds, working ‘beyond ourselves’. The group also took part in joint sessions with the Funders Community of Practice and End Poverty Edinburgh. Some people in the community organisation group took part in Future Fridays, our collective imagination programme.
Find out more about the group here and learn more about how they worked together in our Learning Report on the co-design of the fund.