Five Things: Newsletter #1

September 2023

This is a copy of the first Regenerative Futures Fund Newsletter circulated via EVOC. The newsletter can also be accessed here.

Welcome to the first Regenerative Futures Fund E-news.

As work on this new fund continues, you can look forward to receiving a short update every month or so. We are just over a year into the development phase and this newsletter is part of our commitment to 'working in the open'. 

We hope you enjoy the first edition...
 

Making

1. Why We're Involved...
Conversations with people who have been involved in co-designing the Regenerative Futures Fund over the past year about why they got involved, have stayed involved and what they are learning, first up is Carolyn Sawers (Corra Foundation).
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2. Regenerative Futures Fund Design Overview
A first peek at the planned design of the fund, purpose and theory of change, based on many collective conversations within and across our three learning groups over the past year.
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3. Future Fridays: Write Now
Our collective imagination shared writing sessions have been happening monthly, led by Shasta H Ali and Jennifer Williams. The Sep Future Fridays bookings will be circulated soon. For now, here is some beautiful Writing from earlier sessions
 

Learning

4. Funders Sharing & Learning Session
A deep and honest conversation framed around the development of Regenerative Futures Fund and getting to grips with how others are funding differently for long-term transformative change, between Sophia Parker (Joseph Rowntree Foundation), James Banks (London Funders) and Jon Mowll (Thirty Percy) with a conversation afterwards.
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5. Next Frontiers Conference: Unlocking resources in this time of crisis and possibility Reflections from this conference led by Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a deep dive into funding, philanthropy and investment and how to unlock resources for change.
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