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Criw Compostio is one of our new Carbon Innovation Fund partners. They're working de-mystify food waste management and using food waste to create an alternative to peat in composts in Machynlleth, Wales. 🥔🥕🫘 Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3LBtdOZ In partnership with Co-op 💙 #Funder #EnvironmentalFunder #Peat #Peatlands #Compost #FoodWaste

We've been visiting our funded partners in Scotland! SCROLL 👇 to see who Aruna Bahia, Ella Smyth and Sarah Barton went to see, how they got on and why it's so important to us to see our partners face-to-face 💙 Learn more ➡️ https://bit.ly/3g2vO89 #funding #foundation #GrantMaking #fund #Scotland #community Iona Village Hall, OBAN COMMUNITIES TRUST, South West Mull and Iona Development, Scottish Association For Marine Science

How do you successfully host a youth-led event? Who better to ask than young people themselves... Read our latest guest blog from Michael and Helen - two of the young people who helped design and facilitate our first online hackathon event - to find out how to host a youth-led event 👇 https://bit.ly/3yT1B5l

🍄🍄 There isn't mushroom for waste with Rhyze Mushrooms! They're one of our new Carbon Innovation Fund partners, developing a compost using worms that is easily replicable and at a large enough scale to be used on farms. 🪱🪱 Read more about them and our other amazing partners 👉 https://bit.ly/3LBtdOZ In partnership with Co-op 💙💚 #SustainableCommunities #Peat #Peatlands #EnvrionmentalFunder

🏫🎒 Schools are a great place to engage young people, but how do we make the most of them as a setting? Find out more about what we've learned about how to engage schools in youth social action, as part of our #iwillFund partnership 👇👇👇 https://bit.ly/4cGHTaS #iwill #SharingLearning #Funder #FlexibleFunder #iwill #FutureCommunities

It’s been three years since we started our £3.5m Carbon Innovation Fund (CIF) partnership with Co-op! CIF is funded through the Foundation's own funds, and donations from the sale of Co-op's compostable carrier bags. 💚💙 Round three of the fund focused on funding those innovating to grow the food we need without damaging our precious UK peatlands. Read more about our new partners 👉👉👉 https://bit.ly/3LBtdOZ #FutureCommunities #EnvironmentalFunder #Peatlands #Farming

📰 Loads of learning from this CharityComms article 👇 It shares responses from the charity sector following the far-right riots. We're proud to be featured! And we’re proud to stand in solidarity with our funded partners and communities affected by these awful activites. Read more about how charities are standing with communities across the UK...if you're a charity, check out the resources at the end 👉 https://bit.ly/4fJlOuS  Also featuring: Centre for Mental Health Crisis HOPE not hate Citizens Advice Runnymede Trust #CharityComms #communications #CrisisComms #foundation #funding #funder #statement #community  

Have you seen it?... Our Impact Report film? It's filmed by our funded partners and shares the amazing things they achieved in 2023! Watch the full film 👉 https://bit.ly/3KF1eh1 Featuring: Nurturing Foundations, NPK Recovery and Circus Eruption 🙌 #FutureCommunities #community #funding #impact #funder #coop

"If you don't ask young people how are you going to know what we need?" Caitlin, a Young Scot participant shares why it's so important to get young people involved in conversations about things that impact them. Find out more about our longest partnership to date 👉👉👉 https://bit.ly/3SrlZRE #FutureCommunities #YoungScot #CoopFoundation #YouthFunder #Scotland

🌳🌳🌳 What a lovely mention of our Carbon Innovation Fund partnership with Co-op in The Grocer! Find out more about our new partners and how they're growing the food we need without damaging peatlands 👉👉👉 https://bit.ly/4dxxIpD #FutureCommunities #Sustainability #Peat #Peatlands