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The Social Change Nest

Our fiscal hosting service removes financial barriers so that you can focus on making change.

About


The Social Change Nest


Our fiscal hosting services remove financial barriers so that you can focus on making change. We give you the tools and support to scale and create impact, without imposing any structures that could hinder your amazing work.

As the sister of The Social Change Agency, we have 10 years experience in the nonprofit sector. We have a deep understanding of civil society - the barriers to getting started, and the fiscal and administrative needs of groups and individual changemakers.

Check out our Gitbook to learn all about The Social Change Nest. Open Collective also has a comprehensive Gitbook here.  

Our fiscal hosting service


Our service can help you if:

1. You’ve been holding group funds in a personal bank account and it’s starting to cause headaches
2. You want to receive and manage funds in a more transparent and collaborative way
3. You’re struggling with the admin of running a group and could use some support
4. You’d benefit from being part of a community of groups and movements, with access to shared resources and networks
5. You’re growing fast and need help understanding how to do it responsibly

Additional support 


We’re always looking for new ways to build capacity, community and infrastructure. All with the aim of helping community groups like yours to thrive. Here are just a few ways we do this:

  • Funding opportunities: We share relevant opportunities across our networks. And we highlight partners that can help with grant applications and other funding options.

  • Resources: We gather and share relevant resources and services through our website and other comms channels.

  • Community building: Through events (both in-person and virtual) and our Discord community, we bring like-minded groups together to collaborate, connect and learn.

  • Capacity building: We offer additional support where needed, for example in strategy, comms and marketing, and building out governance structures.

Fees 


We charge a one-off onboarding fee of £42, and 5% from the money we host on your behalf. We also provide a grant management service. This means that you can apply for formal grants using us as a host. We charge 7% on all funds granted. Please get in touch with us if you’re looking to apply for funding. 

Questions? 


If you have any questions please get in touch by calling us on 07712 872277 or emailing [email protected]

To find out more about The Social Change Nest and our team, check out our website

Our team

Contributions


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Events

The Social Change Nest is hosting the following events.

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News from The Social Change Nest

Updates on our activities and progress.

SCN is Growing🌿, Fantastic Funding Opportunities🍕, and Free Events🏄

Hey there, We hope you are all doing well, and were able to keep cool during the heatwaves over the last few weeks🥵 This month we’re excited to announce we’ve hired our newest team member👏 Alongside that, we’re also sharing some brilliant...
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Published on September 18, 2023 by The Social Change Nest

Bank Holiday Payments❗️, Funding Opportunities💸, Free Capacity Building and Training👷🏻

Hey there, We hope you are all doing well! It’s hard to believe we’re nearing the end of Summer🌞 We hope you’ve been able to catch a bit of a break over the past few months, and had the chance to recharge and look after yourself🎋 This wee...
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Published on August 25, 2023 by The Social Change Nest

Recurring Contributions Update❗️, Funding Opportunities💸, and Upcoming Events🍄

Hey there, We hope you are doing well! We’ve been very busy over the past few weeks at SCN🧑‍🍳, as we’re expanding our small team! See more information below, and feel free to share with anyone you think might be interested in taking a rol...
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Published on August 2, 2023 by The Social Change Nest

Conversations

Let’s get the discussion going! This is a space for the community to converse, ask questions, say thank you, and get things done together.

Queen's Platinum Jubilee Activity Fund

Published on January 25, 2022 by The Social Change Nest

We have come across a potential grant opportunity that we think could be of interest to you: Queen's Platinum Jubilee Activity Fund -...

Environment grant

Published on September 7, 2021 by The Social Change Nest

We came across the Together for Our Planet: https://www.tnlco...

Question about the criteria to join The Social Change Nest

Published on September 10, 2020 by Tracey Shipman

HiI am working with a group of individuals in Nosara, Costa Rica to initiate a collective that is focused on community gardens, educations for the community on growing their own food, and creating a regenerative system that is not dependent...

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Budget


Transparent and open finances.

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Today’s balance

£116,064.35 GBP

Total income

£2,583,136.25 GBP

Total disbursed

£2,467,071.90 GBP

Estimated annual budget

£1,224,142.16 GBP

Transactions

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