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So, what does EFN actually do? 🤔

We work to transform environmental philanthropy in the UK. We offer specific support to different parts of the funding community:

1️⃣ New to green giving, or want to develop your existing giving? We can help you get started.
We can provide support, make connections and share knowledge and resources.

2️⃣ Funders? Our events, research and membership network can help your giving be as effective and impactful as possible. We help connect you with other funders and better understand the landscape of environmental funding.

3️⃣ Advisors? More and more wealth-holders want to use their resources to be part of solving the environmental crisis. We can help you and your clients get started with funding environmental initiatives, or ‘green’ their existing giving.

4️⃣ Fundraisers? Our events, research, learning programmes and Green Fundraisers Forum can support your work and wellbeing, as well as help you be as effective as possible.

Our website is FULL of resources that can help you and how you can get involved with our work.

#introductions #whatwedo #funders #fundraisers #greenfunding #environment #climatechange #philanthropy

So, what does EFN actually do? 🤔

We work to transform environmental philanthropy in the UK. We offer specific support to different parts of the funding community:

1️⃣ New to green giving, or want to develop your existing giving? We can help you get started.
We can provide support, make connections and share knowledge and resources.

2️⃣ Funders? Our events, research and membership network can help your giving be as effective and impactful as possible. We help connect you with other funders and better understand the landscape of environmental funding.

3️⃣ Advisors? More and more wealth-holders want to use their resources to be part of solving the environmental crisis. We can help you and your clients get started with funding environmental initiatives, or ‘green’ their existing giving.

4️⃣ Fundraisers? Our events, research, learning programmes and Green Fundraisers Forum can support your work and wellbeing, as well as help you be as effective as possible.

Our website is FULL of resources that can help you and how you can get involved with our work.

#introductions #whatwedo #funders #fundraisers #greenfunding #environment #climatechange #philanthropy

So, what does EFN actually do? 🤔

We work to transform environmental philanthropy in the UK. We offer specific support to different parts of the funding community:

1️⃣ New to green giving, or want to develop your existing giving? We can help you get started.
We can provide support, make connections and share knowledge and resources.

2️⃣ Funders? Our events, research and membership network can help your giving be as effective and impactful as possible. We help connect you with other funders and better understand the landscape of environmental funding.

3️⃣ Advisors? More and more wealth-holders want to use their resources to be part of solving the environmental crisis. We can help you and your clients get started with funding environmental initiatives, or ‘green’ their existing giving.

4️⃣ Fundraisers? Our events, research, learning programmes and Green Fundraisers Forum can support your work and wellbeing, as well as help you be as effective as possible.

Our website is FULL of resources that can help you and how you can get involved with our work.

#introductions #whatwedo #funders #fundraisers #greenfunding #environment #climatechange #philanthropy

Last chance to apply!Better Food & Farming Lead 🌾

We’re looking for an exceptional candidate to lead and develop our new Funder Interest Group: Better Food & Farming Group (BFFG).

Applications close this Sunday 10 May at 23:59 BST.

The Better Food & Farming Lead will help funders to collaborate and work together more effectively to improve our food and farming systems within the UK.

You can discover further details, including the experience and expertise we are looking for and how to apply via the link in bio.

#job #jobopportunity #farming #climate #environment

Join our team! We’re looking for someone to lead and develop our new funder interest group: Better Food & Farming Group (BFFG) 🧑‍🌾🥕

A new role, the BFFG lead will help funders to collaborate and work together more effectively to improve our food and farming systems within the UK. You’ll be a pro facilitator, enjoy connecting with people and excited about bringing funders together to act ambitiously for change.

✍️ Discover more and how to apply via link in bio

📆 Deadline: Sunday 10 May, 23:59

P.S. Please share this opportunity with your networks, colleagues and anyone who may be a good fit!

#food #farming #regenerativefarming #regenfarming #soil #nature #biodiversity #job #role #opportunity @esmeefairbairn

Over £5 million raised for Earth Raise so far this week! 🎉

From 22-29 April, all your donations for environmental causes are DOUBLED, supporting over 300 incredible charities across the UK and around the world. This match funding is made possible thanks to the generosity of funders who contributed to the match fund, including many brilliant EFN members.

This year, we're hoping Earth Raise raises £10 million. Can you donate and help us get there?

Earth Raise is a partnership between the @biggiveorg and EFN. Double the difference now - link in bio!

#earthraise #doublethedifference #environment #fundraising

We’re hiring 📢📢📢

We’re looking for an exceptional candidate to lead and develop our new funder interest group: Better Food & Farming Group (BFFG) 🧑‍🌾🥕

This isn't a traditional grant-making role. Instead, you are a facilitator and strategist.

The Better Food & Farming Lead will develop and coordinate BFFG, ensuring that funders are collaborating, strategising together, learning from the latest evidence, working towards a shared ambition for change, and not duplicating efforts.

While BFFG is new, it will be housed within EFN with the support of the team and a consultant Strategic Advisor, giving you the creativity and founding energy of a start-up, matched by the support and networks of an established and respected organisation.

📆 Deadline: Sunday 10 May, 23:59

Please share this opportunity with your networks, colleagues and anyone who may be a good fit!

Apply now via link in bio.

#food #farming #rengenerativefarming #regenfarming #soil #nature #biodiversity #job #role #opportunity @esmeefairbairn

Join the community built for environmental funders!

▪️ Our funder members enjoy unique, funder-only events, spaces and programmes that allow funders to learn from each other and experts.

▪️Our research, publications and resources share best practices across the landscape of environmental funding and insights on key issues and solutions.

▪️ We regularly bring funders together to connect with one another, collaborate and build new working relationships.

Become an EFN funder member and join over 300 different foundations, trusts, individual donors and advisors working to build a thriving and sustainable future.

Discover more via link in bio.

#funders #efn #funding #environmentalfunders #environment #greenfunding #trusts #foundations #membership

Last week EFN and I.G. Advisors headed over to Glasgow to bring together just under 20 senior Scottish leaders from our Leadership Labs programme to meet and connect.

Leaders from across all three cohorts dropped by and we were so touched by their comments on the programme:

✨'The new friends I have made make me feel connected, no longer alone, nationwide.'
✨'Great experience and great fun.'
✨'The most significant long-term benefit has been the people I've connected with. Through the Lab, we have moved on to partnering and collaborating on new projects.'

Big thank you to @thehiddengardensglasgow for hosting us with some delicious catering by @milk_community_glasgow. Thank you to brilliant partners at IG and their expertise in all things leadership. Of course a big thank you to each leader who took part in this pilot training and making it such a success.

The Leadership Labs provide leadership training for climate, environment and natural heritage leaders working in Scotland, made possible with @heritagefundukand thanks to National Lottery players.

We’re hoping to be back with more opportunities like this one in the future - watch this space!

#leadership #climate #leaders #training #professionaldevelopment #nature #scotland

Last week EFN and I.G. Advisors headed over to Glasgow to bring together just under 20 senior Scottish leaders from our Leadership Labs programme to meet and connect.

Leaders from across all three cohorts dropped by and we were so touched by their comments on the programme:

✨'The new friends I have made make me feel connected, no longer alone, nationwide.'
✨'Great experience and great fun.'
✨'The most significant long-term benefit has been the people I've connected with. Through the Lab, we have moved on to partnering and collaborating on new projects.'

Big thank you to @thehiddengardensglasgow for hosting us with some delicious catering by @milk_community_glasgow. Thank you to brilliant partners at IG and their expertise in all things leadership. Of course a big thank you to each leader who took part in this pilot training and making it such a success.

The Leadership Labs provide leadership training for climate, environment and natural heritage leaders working in Scotland, made possible with @heritagefundukand thanks to National Lottery players.

We’re hoping to be back with more opportunities like this one in the future - watch this space!

#leadership #climate #leaders #training #professionaldevelopment #nature #scotland

✨NEW blog ✨ Stepping Up: Johan Rockström on planetary boundaries, philanthropy and better funding

“We are no longer this small world on a big planet. We are a very big world on a small planet that is actually showing signs of weakness.” – Johan Rockström

Part of our ‘Stepping Up’ series, our trustee, Liz Gadd, delves into insights from Johan Rockström on leadership in philanthropy as we face the environmental and biodiversity crises.

Inspired by Johan’s insights, Liz believes we need to change how we live to adjust to our changing climate and to stop fueling environmental damage at the same time. But we can also choose a path forward that improves lives at the same time and funders can be part of that journey.

As Liz says, all us, including philanthropists, “have an incredible opportunity to address historic inequity through fair action on climate change.”

Read now - link in bio ☝️

#steppingup #planetaryboundaries #funding #philanthropy #environment #climate #funders #environmentalphilanthropy @pik_klima

Less than a week to go to become our next trustee or Chair of trustees 📣

Applications close next Monday 30 March at 17:59. If you want to help us grow environmental philanthropy and make it more effective, these roles are for you 👇

👉 We are looking for TWO new trustees who understand the important role of a trustee, are excited to guide EFN's strategic direction and want to contribute to the continued development of environmental philanthropy. Areas of expertise we are looking for:
▪️ Environmental funding, particularly international funding
▪️ Financial and operational management
▪️ Strategic communications and influencing
▪️ Coordination and management of networks
▪️ Working with family offices, or in philanthropy advisory
▪️ Fundraising and membership experience

👉 We are also looking for new CHAIR of Trustees will help to guide the strategic development of EFN, act as a sounding board for the Executive Director and wider staff team and ensure the highest levels of governance for the organisation.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to join the EFN’s board of trustees - link in bio ☝️

#trustee #trustees #opportunities #chairoftrustees #chair

Check out our ✨ new blog✨ for insights from the IPBES 12 plenary meeting. We reflect on the impact of IPBES’s approach and accessibility, plus provide some prompts for funders.

EFN team members, Oscar and Aliyah attended the 12th plenary meeting of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in Manchester. The event brought different stakeholders, including international government representatives, scientists, Indigenous knowledge holders, and NGOs together, with the main aim of reviewing the new Business and Biodiversity Assessment.

In our blog, we highlight key takeaways and prompts for funders, including:

💭How do we create more patient spaces that balance finding common ground with scientific expertise?
🌍 How do your practices as a funder or an individual donor relate to wider economic transformation – whether that’s looking at your investment portfolios, funding strategy or grantmaking priorities?
🌱How are you collaborating with Indigenous Knowledge holders in your work?

Read now via the link in bio.

Could you be EFN’s new trustee?

We are looking for a new Chair of Trustees and two additional trustees who share our vision to create an effective, flourishing ecosystem of environmental philanthropy that is supporting people and the planet to thrive together.

👉 Our new trustees will be excited to guide EFN's strategic direction and want to contribute to the continued development of environmental philanthropy.

👉 Our new Chair of Trustees will help to guide the strategic development of EFN, act as a sounding board for the Executive Director and wider staff team and ensure the highest levels of governance for the organisation.

Please share this opportunity with your networks, colleagues and anyone who may be a good fit!

📆 Deadline: Monday 30 March, 17:59
✍️ Apply now via link in bio

#trustee #trustees #opportunities #chairoftrustees #chair

📚 9 recommendations from EFN’s Reading Week 2026 📚

Our team took one week to immerse ourselves in books, articles, podcasts, films and documentaries to learn more about climate, environmental and philanthropy ideas and issues. From nature writing to masculinity and the environment to talking about politics, these 9 recommendations cover a lot of topics for you all to enjoy:

🦍 Walking with gorillas: the journey of an African wildlife vet by @gladyskalemazikusoka
🎧 Access Denied: Does the environment sector have a problem with class? By Eco Chamber podcast @ends.report
🐇 Raising Hare by @chloedaltonuk
🪧Don’t Talk About Politics by @sarahsteinlubrano
🌧️ Private Rites by @juliakarmfield
💬 Britain Talks Climate & Nature 2025 by Climate Outreach @climatevisuals
⛰️ The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
👊 Carbon Bros by @drilledmedia and Non-Toxic
🌱 The Serviceberry by @robinwallkimmerer

If you have something to suggest for our next reading week, let us know!

Link in bio ☝️

#reading #learning #professionaldevelopment #readingweek #environment #philanthropy