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Allocate funds fairly. Build a diverse and resilient portfolio. Create a more just future.

4 MONTHS OF SUPPORT· COHORT-BASED COURSE

An inclusive, community-focused learning experience for impact-driven funders

Start date: Wednesday 29th January 2025

Zoom sessions to take place on Wednesday at 2pm

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*Applications close on the 17th January

The funding landscape can feel complex

Whether you’re navigating existing systems or building new ones from scratch, it can be challenging to know where to start.

Add impact, diversity, equity, and inclusion metrics into the mix and it only gets more daunting.

But we also know what finance can unlock – opportunity, innovation and growth.

So, we’re on a mission to help you fund fearlessly.

Enter the Fearless Funding School.

→ Want to know more? Read our theory of change here.

Sound familiar?

“We want to grow our networks and stay accountable”

One of the biggest parts of our job is networking – be that with potential investment prospects or collaborators. We’re always looking to build out our contact book.

“We want to build on what we already have“

We have an equality, diversity and inclusion investment framework, but know it can go further. We want to build on what we already have.

“We don’t want more training, we want our time back!“

Impact funders are busy people, we don’t want more training we want our time and space to implement new ideas. Time is one of our biggest barriers to change.

“Change can be scary“

We absolutely see the value of embedding equality, diversity and inclusion into our investment process but we’re nervous to implement that change and need a bit of help along the way.

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What you’ll get from the Fearless Funding School

Tools, knowledge and confidence

Gain the tools and knowledge to allocate funds fairly and engage with your audience.

Boost your confidence so you can fearlessly fund impactful organisations.

Implementable funding strategy

We help you build a funding strategy from scratch, purposely designed to help you diversify your pipeline, measure impact, embed ethical practices and communicate with transparency.

Lots of time saved

We know your time is precious.

The course is designed to give you the time and space back to build and implement an impactful funding strategy that could have taken years to put in place.

Action and accountability

Build and implement your own equitable funding allocation and engagement strategy.

Join a community of funders to help you stay accountable.

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Learn and implement a fearless funding strategy

Phase 1

Learn

The first 8-week sprint serves as the core learning phase of the programme for a cohort of 10-15 funders. Weekly 90-minute workshops.

Understanding the current funding landscape: where we are today and why
Why it matters: justice, equality, diversity and inclusion are good for business, society and beyond

Understanding the internal problem – the root cause of funding inequity
How to create inclusive policy and practice
How to build an inclusive funding offer

Inclusive marketing strategy
Posting with purpose
Inclusive writing and content design

Actionable strategy to get there
Accountability and transparency
Impact measurement

1-1 hour long communications strategy coaching session
Collaborative cohort Slack channel
Access to our inclusive communication toolkit
Accountability buddy to keep you on track

Phase 2

Implement

Over the next 8-weeks, participants apply the knowledge and skills gained during phase 1 to real-world projects or challenges within their organisation.

Apply the knowledge and skills gained during the programme to real-world projects or challenges within your organisation.

Coaching sessions and check-ins are conducted to monitor progress, address challenges and provide additional assistance as needed.

Participants maintain accountability partnerships established during the programme, providing mutual support, encouragement and accountability.

After two months of the implementation phase participants will update the cohort on their progress and share key learnings

Collaborative cohort Slack channel
Access to our inclusive communication toolkit

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Meet your facilitators

Emily Horton

Founder of More Diverse Voices

Over the past decade, Emily has helped charities, think tanks, policymakers, investors and fast-growth tech companies find their voice. She has helped build communication strategies, thought leadership pieces, reports, press releases, social media campaigns and pitched stories to the press.

During her time as a financial journalist at Dow Jones she focused her reporting efforts on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.

She profiled female financial leaders, wrote articles about Pride in the City of London, mental health and stress in the workplace, sexual harassment cases and the lack of Black asset managers.

In 2023, she was recognised as one of Pioneers Post x NatWest’s Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise.

As a neurologically diverse and queer writer, Emily passionately advocates for justice and inclusion.

Jaskiran Mangat

Founder of Finance Therapy

Jaskiran is a financial resilience and wellbeing expert and founder of Finance Therapy, tackling money and mental health.

She brings over 15 years of experience as an; educator, financial risk manager, innovator and founder in banking and fintech, investor community builder and Trauma Of Money facilitator.

During her time building a global community of 550+ VC funds and LPs at VentureESG, she developed events, research and toolkits for investors to implement best practice ESG, including DEI, at the fund and portfolio level.

She’s also developed an award scheme in partnership with DeepMind, the Royal Academy of Engineering and Ada Ventures, for underrepresented founders in science, tech and engineering, working on innovations for the betterment of humanity.