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Participatory grant-making body in the UK working to end the imbalances of wealth and power. Run for and by grassroots organisers! https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/edge-funds-root-funding-round

A brief update of where we are at with our Funding Round 17 - Roots Fund. We received slightly over 100 applications and we are thanking all applicants for their work. Our Funding Working Group, made of Edge members (past grantees) are now looking at them to shortlist those eligible before making a final selection of 40 grantees! The FWG is made of Migrant Women Press, World Stages Now, Unis Resist Borders Controls, Youth Front For Palestine, Queer Refugees Unite, and Black Activists Rising Against Cuts.
Image with the question: How do Edge grants support grassroots organisations? And the testimony of Communities for Holistic, Accessible, Rights Based Mental Health - CHARM (Manchester, UK) reading: ’We used the funds to support our campaigning work and to pay for meeting spaces, a zoom account that has enabled us to hold our monthly CHARM society meetings, and support and planning groups. These are our engine rooms generating the actions and projects we have been running’. ‘We have been running a campaign in support of the patients at Edenfield Secure Psychiatric hospital who experienced horrific human rights abuses. We called for an independent inquiry and got widespread media coverage’ ‘We followed up with a presentation by people with lived experience to the Health Scrutiny Committee on the crisis in mental health services and we wrote our own response to the independent review finding, entitled Share Power to End the Abuse of Power’. Read more about CHARM’s work here https://charmmentalhealth.org/
How Edge Fund grants support the grassroots groups? 'The grant went towards costs for our website and to produce a video to explain what was happening at Horse Hill Oil State' by Weald Action Group. The campaign had a historic win in 2024 as the Supreme Court judged that Surrey County Council acted unlawfully by giving planning permission for oil production at Horse Hill without considering the climate impacts from burning the extracted oil. This has far-reaching results against the UK fossil sector. 'This is a welcome step towards a safer, fairer future' Sarah, Weald Action Group. 'If Horse Hill is considered unlawful all new oil and gas projects should be!' Laure, from Stop Rosebank
a square photo bordered in light yellow. large orange letters say The FR16 grantees! below are a a list of groups funded in green, black red and yellow letters: Angry Workers, Survivors of Colour Stories, Unity Sisters, Migrant Women Press, Rising Against Cuts, Communities for Holistic, Accessible, Rights Based Mental Manchester, Parents for Palestine, Oakheaven Collective DARES, Mad Insight, Sex?On campus! BP or not BP? CopWatch Network, Frack Free Scarborough, Safety First Wales, Tottenham CopWatch, Feminists Fightback, Youth Front for Palestine, Lesbians & Gays support the Migrants, People's Land Policy, The LAD Fund, Sheffield Campus Coalition for Palestine, Focus E15, Red Umbrella Festival, Samos Semillas Popular Education Instituion, Books Against Borders, Serenity Cohousing, Debt for Climate Change, Sex Workers Alliance Ireland, Bristol CopWatch, Stop Incineration North East, South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group & Southwark & Lambeth Anti Raids