Our 40 Roots grantees are finally here! Go to the link to know more about them: www.edgefund.org.uk/round_17 Thanks to all our supporters for making this possible & thanks to all the applicants for their vital work! We are committed to raise more funds and continue supporting the grassroots!!

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Thanks to all the groups for their applications! 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!

Only a few days left to apply!

🌱Some more info on our Roots Funding Round. 🌻 Please head to our website for more info on the eligibility criteria and contact us if you need support with submitting your application.

Our Roots Funding Round open! Visit edgefund.org.uk/roots_fund_o... for more details. Pass it around to any grassroots group that may be eligible! (1/5)

🌱We've been busy and want to share some exciting updates with all our members and supporters! Thanks for helping us reach the goal of our crowdfunder. We will continue supporting small grassroots organisations that tend to fall out of the scope of the traditional philanthropic sector. (1/6)

📢 Wondering how an Edge Fund grant can support grassroots organisations? 🌱🌱Read it directly from Communities for Holistic, Affordable, Rights Based Mental Health (Manchester). Thanks to CHARM for the testimony!

Dignity Not Detention! Introducing our FR16 grantees! Know more about the South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social

✊ 6 May - Activism Across Borders Join @symaag.bsky.social for a panel discussion with three local activists, exploring how their activism in their home countries informs their fight against the ‘hostile environment’ in the UK. ⬇️

Activism Across Borders

In partnership with SYMAAGSouth Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) is a group of v…

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Are parts for F-35 fighter jets used by Israel made near you? Use our interactive map to find out which companies are producing weapons for Israel: caat.org.uk/data/countri... Stop arming Israel.

How Edge Fund grants support the grassroots? Read it directly from @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social! Thanks for sharing this testimony: 'The grant went towards costs for our website and to produce a video to explain what was happening at Horse Hill Oil site'.

Introducing more grantees from our Funding Round 16! 💥 No to Hassockfield (Derwentside IRC) 💥 Because detention has no place in a humane asylum system, N2H fights to end immigration detention in the UK and to dismantle the hostile environment.

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Janey Starling@janeystarling.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉CAMPAIGN WIN: Sentencing Council announce new Imposition guideline that acknowledges prison is high-risk for pregnant women and tells courts to avoid sending women there! 📣🎉✨ This is so, so hard-won & would never have happened without the power of MOTHERS 🎉💞 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Your incredible support will help us continue backing grassroots organisations this year. We have raised £25K. However, we’re still halfway to our initial goal of £50K! Help us reach our goal and support 40 grassroots organisations fighting against racism!!

Meet Edge Fund's most recent grantees! 💥 The LAD Fund: Drag performers withdrawing labour for Palestine. No Pride in Genocide! ✊A strike fund for drag & queer artists in the UK who are boycotting events tied to the genocide in Palestine.

Meet Edge Fund’s grantees of our Funding Round 16 here: www.edgefund.org.uk/round_16 💥Today we are introducing World Stages Now: a Southampton-based voluntary grassroots performing arts group. Their members are refugees and migrants. Their approach is entirely supportive and holistic.

🚨 We have only 8 days left in Feb and we haven't reached our goal 🚨 One day this week we: • Shared news about an attack on sex worker in NI to change the conversation around sex work in Ireland • Gave our SWAT training to Applied Social Care students • Made a strategy plan for the next 3 months

🌱📚This March, come get creative making your own zine with Zinesters Hamja Ahsan, Seleena Laverne Daye & Dal Kular each running an online zine workshop with us exploring different themes of racial justice & mental health! 🔗Register your free place using link in bio @nsunnews.bsky.social

I co-signed this letter on behalf of @baracuk.bsky.social www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/latest/news/...

Over 100 charities and faith leaders unite against refugee citizenship ban

Well over 100 charities and faith leaders have come together in an urgent call against the Government’s decision to effectively ban tens of thousands of refugees from ever becoming British citizens. O...

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🎉 Introducing the grantees of our Funding Round 16! Check the list of 40 grantees on www.edgefund.org.uk/round_16 Today we are introducing BP or Not BP? 🌿🌿🌿

💥We need you! 💥 Support our crowdfunder & make our 2025 Roots Funding Round possible! We pledged to support grassroots organisations confronting Islamophobia, Afriphobia & Colonial violence in the UK and Ireland! More info below youtu.be/zlZp-6yw54Y?...

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The @Telegraph, @thetimes, @MailOnline & @TheSun publish corrections to their scaremongering on undocumented migrants in London. Imagine between them the reach & power of these papers. The fact is they are using that power to instil Trumpist hate & we are ill-equipped to resist.

The Faragist, machismo ‘Stop the Boats’ and ‘Smash the Gangs’ approach so far has led to a record-breaking level of fatalities at our border. We’re deeply concerned Labour’s new Bill will lead to yet more loss of life. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/01/l...

'Labour’s Borders Bill Is a Gift to the Far-Right That Won’t Stop Boats but Will Cost Lives'

The bill will cause untold human suffering while also still failing to deter irregular migration, argues Nathan Phillips

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🎊The Lift the Ban campaign is re-launching in Leeds & you’re all invited to celebrate! Come together to advocate for the right to work for people seeking asylum in the UK. Expect inspiring speeches, live music & poetry & delicious food 🎟️Feb 13th, 6-8pm at Leeds Playhouse. Everyone welcome.

With the cost of renting outpacing our wages, many opt to become property guardians or lodgers, but this comes with a major cost—less protection. Read what our Chief Executive @bentwomeyuk.bsky.social had to say to about this to @cnnbusiness.bsky.social below 👇 edition.cnn.com/2025/01/31/b...

Londoners are paying to live in deserted schools, office blocks and an old cathedral to avoid ‘insane’ rents | CNN Business

Increasing numbers of Londoners are moving into disused properties as “guardians,” lured by fees that are usually much lower than rents in the same area.

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BREAKING 🇵🇸 The Inaugural Joint Statement of The Hague Group. https://buff.ly/40E8yRF

Take Action and sign the petition to join the demands for transparency, procedural fairness, and public participation in the goldmine Public Inquiry. The Planning Appeals Commission should be facilitating public participation, not excluding it! 👇✍️ bit.ly/makepublicin...

Sign Now: Make the Public Inquiry into the proposed goldmine in the Sperrins more accessible and transparent

I've signed this petition calling on the Planning Appeals Commission to make the Public Inquiry into the proposed goldmine in the Sperrins more accessible and transparent - will you sign too?

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Great victory for everyone!!! Our admiration and support to everyone involved in the campaign!

Stop Rosebank@stopcambo.bsky.social · 2y ago

BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.