Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations’ Council (EVOC)

Day

Wednesday 8 November

Time slot

13:30-14:30

This event took place over 1 year ago

Room

Harris suite
Wheelchair accessible

Contact

Leah Black

Topics

Funding & fundraising Families and communities

Overall aim

Get into the complexity of trying to move significant amounts of money into and within a place to community-led work focused on futures whilst operating within a wider system. 

Description

The Regenerative Futures Fund is a new pooled fund for Edinburgh (with a target of £15 million) due to launch in 2024, which is being collaboratively designed by funders, community organisations and individuals. This will be a 10-year fund for communities to lead change that is focused on futures and tackling the root causes of our interconnected systemic challenges in the city around poverty, climate change and racial injustice. The development year started in August 2022, was due to conclude in August 2023 but has been extended to February 2024. The project lives within EVOC supported by the team and is led by Leah Black who is seconded to EVOC from her role as Chief Executive at Whale Arts.

This will be a sharing and learning session with partners from across our learning groups – from End Poverty Edinburgh, our Community Organisation Learning Group and Funders Community of Practice - about the developing Regenerative Futures Fund in Edinburgh. 

This is for you if you are interested in talking about the complexity and messy nature of co-design with individuals, organisations and funders, putting a bold focusing on futures, root causes and our interconnected systemic issues, working to a target of £15 million, trying to bring 'new money' into the system, fostering collective imagination, mapping and trying to operate within a wider system, and navigating governance and suitable legal structures for the pooled fund that allow for collective decision-making, risk and uncertainty. 

Who was the event aimed at?

Influencers

Who spoke at this event?

The session will be co-led by:
Agnieszka Morrison – Feniks
Caroline Cawley – End Poverty Edinburgh
Chris Hellawell – Edinburgh Tool Library
Vicky Nyanga-Ndiaye – Project Esperanza
Leah Black – Regenerative Futures Fund (hosted by EVOC)
Zoe Ferguson – The Robertson Trust