Who scores your applications? Who decides how the £40K fund is distributed?

For our 2024 Funding Round 16, 21 Edge Fund members from Ireland and around the UK will read your applications.

Edge Fund members are grassroots and community organisers whose groups have received an Edge Fund grant in the past. They are joining us in our efforts to redistribute funds to radical grassroots campaigns pushing for systemic change.

These are the Edge Fund members involved in deciding how to distribute funds in FR16:

1. Andi: Scoring on behalf of We Grow (@wegrow.cic). We Grow connects people who live within walking distance of each other, to form groups to grow communal food together. I have worked in community building for over 20 years and is part of local funding panels.

2. Julia: Scoring on behalf of Mad Insight (madinsight.online). A group of mad scholars, activists and pioneers who critique the mainstream mental health paradigm. We assert that madness offers knowledge, understanding and experiencing of the world.

3. Pasqueline: Scoring on behalf of Black Socialists London (@blacksocialistslondon), a grassroots anti-racist and anti-imperialist organisation run by BPOC where we run political educational sessions and discussions, and community initiatives.

4. Jennifer from the Resting Up Collective (@restingupcollective_) is the founder of resting up collective, an interdisciplinary group of chronically ill/disabled friends practising slowness to create, think, and interrupt neoliberal pressures/expectations on the body.

5. Laura from Migrant Women Press (@migrantwomenpress) My name is Laura, and in addition to being an Edge Fund Scorer, I am the Literature Section Editor for Migrant Women Press. We amplify the voices of migrant women and challenge mainstream media narratives about immigrants.

6. Eva from People's Health Movement Scotland (@phmscotland). The People’s Health Movement (PHM) Scotland is part of the global PHM social movement working towards the progressive realisation of a fairer & healthier world. I am one of the core members.

7. Asma from BAXSAN (@BAXSAN). The Somali word BAXSAN translates to emancipation/liberation. BAXSAN is an artist collective and private peer support network made up of artists and community facilitators, whose primary focus is creating connections, fostering community and creating art from the shared experiences of LGBTQI+ Somalis. Their work is heavily rooted in exploring and affirming liberation practices. Since the group’s inception, they have prioritised safety, resourcing and upskilling, providing spaces to commune and create.

8. Chris from Friends of Little Woods (@FriendsofLittleWoods). Friends of Little Woods campaigns for social and environmental justice in Northern Ireland. Chris is the Treasurer and a founder member.

9. Sophie. Massage therapist and mama to a 1 year old. I currently organise with Decolonising Economics. Previously involved in survivor and sex worker-led groups, focusing on those who are racialised.

10. C from BP or not BP? (@BPotNotBP). My name is C and I am part of BP or not BP? where we are campaigning the British Museum to drop their sponsorship deal with BP. We believe that cultural institutions must break their links with the fossil fuel industry, and that oil-sponsored institutions are also ideal venues to provoke a wider public conversation about the destructive activities of the fossil fuel industry, and to amplify the voices of those affected by them.

11. MG from Exiled Writers Ink (@ExiledWritersInk). MG is an editorial committee member of the Exiled Writers Ink e-magazine. Exiled Writers Ink develops and promotes the creative literary expression of refugees, migrants and exiles.

12. David from People's Land Policy (@PeoplesLandPolicy). D is part of The People’s Land Policy is a project to develop discussion and debate about what kind of land reform we need. By bringing together a range of people to discuss land and the issues that affect them we hope to contribute to the building of a broad-based, radical movement for land reform.

13. Kat, from Sex Worker Collectives and with ample knowledge and lived experience of sex worker struggles and disability liberation.

14. A from an Anti-fasicst Research Group. We are a group of anti-fascist investigators, using open source and investigative methods to expose and oppose the far right in Britain.

15. Jen from Our Streets Now (@OurStreetsNow). Our vision is a world free from public sexual harassment. A world which empowers, listens to and believes survivors, and which challenges this culture of gender-based violence and intersecting forms of oppression, rather than upholding it. 

16. Olivia from Women Integration Network (@WIN). Our focus is supporting marginalized groups, asylum seekers and migrant women to defeat social isolation, foster friendships and achieve integration.

17. Tina from Nanas UK Against Fracking (@UKNanas) We are a group of compassionate individuals from all walks of life, fighting to protect our communities from the harmful effects of fracking, fossil fuels and injustice. 

18. Tia from Wanderers of Colour (@wanderersofcolour). By + For BPOC. 🌱Committed to social justice through improving access to the outdoors. Primarily UK based w/ members global

19. Elgan from Food and Solidarity (@foodandsolidarity). Food and Solidarity is a democratic membership organisation committed to improving the quality of life in your neighbourhoods. Towards an organised workplace, community, and household.

20. Leah from Space Hijackers (@SpaceHijackers). The Space Hijackers were a group of Anarchitects which was set up at the beginning of 1999.

21. Philippo from Other Ways to Care. First-generation, neurodivergent immigrant, white male in 30s, peer supporter and community organiser living in Pembrokeshire, Wales.