The Social Change Nest

Our fiscal hosting service removes financial barriers so that you can focus on making change.

The Social Change Nest

Our fiscal hosting services remove financial barriers so that you can focus on making change. We give you the tools and support to scale and create impact, without imposing any structures that could hinder your amazing work.

As the sister of The Social Change Agency, we have 10 years experience in the nonprofit sector. We have a deep understanding of civil society - the barriers to getting started, and the fiscal and administrative needs of groups and individual changemakers.

Check out our website to learn all about The Social Change Nest. Open Collective also has a comprehensive Gitbook here.

Our fiscal hosting service

Our service can help you if:

1. You’ve been holding group funds in a personal bank account and it’s starting to cause headaches
2. You want to receive and manage funds in a more transparent and collaborative way
3. You’re struggling with the admin of running a group and could use some support
4. You’d benefit from being part of a community of groups and movements, with access to shared resources and networks
5. You’re growing fast and need help understanding how to do it responsibly

Additional support

We’re always looking for new ways to build capacity, community and infrastructure. All with the aim of helping community groups like yours to thrive. Here are just a few ways we do this:

• Funding opportunities: We share relevant opportunities across our networks. And we highlight partners that can help with grant applications and other funding options.
• Resources: We gather and share relevant resources and services through our website and other comms channels.
• Community building: Through events (both in-person and virtual) and our Discord community, we bring like-minded groups together to collaborate, connect and learn.
• Capacity building: We offer additional support where needed, for example in strategy, comms and marketing, and building out governance structures.

Fees

We charge a one-off onboarding fee of £42, and 5% from the money we host on your behalf. We also provide a grant management service. This means that you can apply for formal grants using us as a host. Please get in touch with us if you’re interested in this grant management.

Questions?

If you have any questions please get in touch by calling us on 07712 872277 or emailing hello@thesocialchangenest.org.

To find out more about The Social Change Nest and our team, check out our website.

Our team

• Claire Barber
• Harkiran
• Preetiwan
• Khiera
• Coco Cherian
• Beth
• Thabita
• Aneesa
• Rufaro
• Ana Steiner
• Harkiran Bharij
• Catherine Scott
• Rameez Madepp...
• Ynaiita
• Niall
• Nahima Akther
• Martina
• Mathea

Contributions

We are fiscally hosting 707 Collectives

Events

The Social Change Nest is hosting the following events.

• Choosing a structure for your movement: should we constitute?
  Past event
  Apr 14, 2021 04:30 PM-05:30 PM UTC
  Join us for a discussion about whether you should constitute, what questions you need to ask your... Read more

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News from The Social Change Nest

Updates on our activities and progress.

• Ask us anything: Strategy and impact drop ins
• New way to submit expenses
• Our first Open Hour - and other events coming up

Conversations

This is a space for the community to converse, ask questions, say thank you, and get things done together.

Budget

Transparent and open finances.