📢2026 Roots Fund: Save the dates!

Our Funding Round 18, the 2026 Roots Fund, is just around the corner!

Following the racist riots of 2024, when we first pledged to resource groups resisting the far right, we have witnessed, seen, and felt the surge of a widespread and increasingly organised far right. Yet, in the face of this alarming threat, we have also seen thousands of organisations, local and community groups rise up- interlocking their struggles, building solidarity, and protecting those most likely to face attack.

This year, we have pledged an additional £40,000 to continue supporting grassroots campaigns and organisations confronting the rise of fascism. A fascist force that seeks to intimidate and divide, using working-class people, migrants, racialised communities, trans people, and disabled people as scapegoats—while directing its colonial, genocidal, extractive violence towards the Global South.

The Roots Fund once again aims to sow the seeds for a different world altogether. We have gathered a Funding Working Group composed of 6 grassroots groups that will distribute the £40K to grassroots organisations opposing the far-right: Islamophobia, Afriphobia and the legacies of Colonial violence in the UK & Ireland.

Applications for Funding Round 18 will open on 10th August and close on 31st August 2026.

The full guidance, eligibility criteria and application form will be available on our website soon.

Watch this space!