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Job Opportunity: Accountable Programme Manager
Accountable Programme Manager Deadline to apply: 12pm, 13 December We will be holding a webinar to present more details about our organisation and this role at 18:00 on 2 December. There will be an opportunity to ask questions. You can register here. If you are unable...
How to apply for funding if you’re not a registered charity
Grassroot movements, community groups, and campaign networks are often at the frontline of social change, but when it comes to funding, your options can be limited. Funders often need to meet high levels of compliance and risk management. This usually means they...
What is fiscal hosting?
What is fiscal hosting? Fiscal hosting is where a legally registered organisation (the fiscal host, also known as a fiscal sponsor) holds money on behalf of a community group, social movement or project that doesn’t have the capacity or desire to register as a formal...
Parents join the fight against climate change
In 2018 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its report on the impact of global warming. Backed by the world’s leading climate scientists the message was clear: If global warming exceeds 1.5C pre industrial levels, the...
The DevComms Network
For the last 3 years, The Social Change Agency has managed the communications side of UK Aid Match, one of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)’s largest public facing programmes. This involves working with more than 60 international development...
Losing Control – A retrospective goodbye
This blog follows on from the announcement in 'Losing Control - It's time to say goodbye' Adios, farewell, adieu, au-revoir, laters… no matter what words we use to describe our parting, none of them will convey the deep feelings we have around this particular ending. ...
SCA joining forces with global activists to host the new Youth Climate Fund
We are excited to be partnering with the Urban Movement Innovation Fund (UMIF) as the fiscal host and grant manager for their newly launched Youth Climate Fund. The grants distributed through our fiscal hosting service will directly support over 100 youth climate...
Evolving through the crisis: How COVID-19 has shaped the next decade of The Social Change Agency
Throughout the past 6 months, over 1 million people mobilised themselves to support their communities during COVID-19. Shopping for those who were shielding, dropping off prescriptions, dog walking, plant swaps, casework for benefit challenges, setting up hardship...
Three ways community-led groups can make the love last post-Covid
With lockdown restrictions lifted, community-led Covid-19 response groups are adapting the support they are providing. The aim that most share is simple: making sure the community ties strengthened during the pandemic, last well beyond it. We've seen these discussions...
My experience as a Covid-19 Mutual Aider
Charlie Watkinson shares her experience of providing and receiving support during the Covid-19 pandemic as a member of the Nunhead Knocks Mutual Aid group. On the changing nature of the support... Initially, the majority of support that was needed was going to collect...
Women’s March Global moves to The Social Change Agency
We are excited to announce that Women's March Global is moving their home and operations to be housed by us at The Social Change Agency. WMG share our values of collaboration and co-creation, dynamism, and, most-importantly, whole-heartedness and we believe this move...
Narcissists, dictators and sociopaths: how can funders avoid perpetuating unhealthy power dynamics in movements?
At the centre of any movement tends to lie a network of leaders; leaders who organise, support, recruit and build; leaders doing the mundane and remarkable work which gets a movement off the ground. Yet, it is at this beginning stage where we are most vulnerable to...