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Protected: Yes, your Royal Highness. Yes to Life!

10/07/2025

A Weekend of Engagement

12/07/2023

As the annual Summer Event approaches, we’re looking forward to welcoming you to our two-day festival in the beautiful Kent countryside. This week, we’ve dedicated our news post to sharing information about what you can look forward to when you…

Regenerating Communities from the Ground Up

03/07/2023

Andy Falconer is a Community Development worker based in Middlesbrough, working at the coalface of regenerating culture in one of Britain’s struggling towns. Andy is curious about the ways in which people connect when given the opportunity, and how together we…

Making a Good Grant Application: Full Disclosure!

26/06/2023

Simon Town is the Grants Assessment Team Manager at Emergence Foundation and a professional Grants Consultant. He has decades of experience in managing grant funds, assessing applications and constructing small and large successful bids. He knows what makes a quality…

Can Spiritual Practice Affect Cultural Change?

21/06/2023

Ivo Mensch is Associate Director of Emergence and Insight at Perspectiva. He is an ordained monk in the Soto Zen Buddhist lineage and a practitioner of the wisdom school of the Diamond Approach for over a decade. As an author and…

Creating a Regenerative Community

12/06/2023

At Emergence Foundation we are not only about grant giving. We care about being part of a movement that is creating a regenerative community across the UK, Europe and beyond; bringing people together in the intersection of inner and outer…

Powering the Change

05/06/2023

Agamemnon Otero, MBE, is Director & CEO of Energy Garden, Co-founder of Repowering London, and Director of the three Brixton Energy Solar cooperatives. Having had cancer twice, he is a force of nature, empowering communities. Having co-founded the industry advocacy body Community…

Evolving Through the Body

29/05/2023

Kirstie Simson is a renowned teacher and award-winning performer of Dance Improvisation. Throughout her career she has dedicated herself to explore the latent potential that dance improvisation has to liberate, bringing us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and others. Patrick…

Nature Has Rights

22/05/2023

Susie Talbot founded the Anima Mundi Law Initiative in 2020, as a space to tell ‘a new legal story for an ecological age’. Susie works with diverse communities, lawyers and allies around the world to evolve the purpose, content and practice…

Aesha Francis Urban Mindfulness Foundation

Finding Common Purpose

20/05/2023

Aesha Francis leads mindfulness training at the Urban Mindfulness Foundation in London. She will be co-leading a workshop with her husband Dean at the Emergence Foundation Summer Event on July 22-23. Aesha shared that “it now seems vital that connecting…

A Modern Day Freedom Fighter

04/05/2023

Esther Stanford-Xosei is a Keynote Speaker at our upcoming Summer Event, July 22-23. She is a reparations legal expert, a Motherist, an interdisciplinary scholar, activist, educator, and historian. She also co-founded the XR Internationalist Solidarity Network supporting the frontline activists…

Dean Francis Urban Mindfulness Foundation

Manifesting Cultural Change

18/04/2023

As we work to imagine and even attempt to manifest potential new cultural paradigms, both in our work and our lives, how are we sensing what that change looks like? Join Dean Francis from the Urban Mindfulness Foundation and other…

Sonic Landscapes of Colour

18/04/2023

Somin Griffin-Dave (aka Somatic) received a grant from Emergence Foundation in 2022 for his project, ‘Sonic Landscapes of Colour’, now ARIA nominated. Somin is a dual-heritage Indian-English Sound Artist, born and raised in Exeter, UK. In this interview he talks…

Sandhya Dave – The Catalyst

17/04/2023

Sandhya Dave received a grant from Emergence Foundation in 2020 for her project ‘The Catalyst’ for the charity she works in – Devon Developmental Education. Sandhya talks about the project and how it worked in two schools, helping both students…

Announcing Emergence Foundation’s Summer Event

16/02/2023

Regenerating Culture: What are the Drivers of Change? 22-23 July 2023, at the Quadrangle, Shoreham, Kent. This will be a weekend to explore, reflect, engage and create new, cultural paradigms through talks, discussions, embodied, movement and workshops in the Kentish…

Emergence Foundation Summer Event 2022

18/10/2022

A big thank you from all of us at Emergence Foundation to those who participated in this year’s Annual Summer Event (July 23, 2022): Transforming Culture from the Inside Out –Shifting Consciousness through Emergence, Connection, Dialogue. Held in the beautiful…

Projects Funded in Round 6

06/03/2022

We are very pleased to announce that from 53 applications we are able to fund 22 new projects in Round 6, the final round of EF’s grant-giving programme. Congratulations to all these projects and we look forward to following their…

Projects Funded in Round 4

27/08/2020

We are very pleased to announce that out of 38 applicants, we were able to fund 18 successful projects in Round 4 of EF’s grant-giving program. A warm congratulations to those projects! We look forward to following their development over…

Annual Emergence Foundation Event 2020

03/08/2020

The theme at this year’s Emergence Foundation annual event was the ‘x factor’. This is a concept which we have come to realise defines EF as a grant-giving foundation. It’s what we look for in evaluating potential projects to fund.…

Projects Funded in Round 3

18/01/2020

We are very pleased to announce that eleven projects were awarded funding in Round 3 of EF’s grant giving programme. A warm congratulations to those projects! We look forward to following their development over the coming year. See below for…

Projects Funded in Round 2

25/07/2019

We are happy to announce that sixteen projects were awarded funding in Round 2 of EF’s grant giving programme. Congratulations to those who received funding. Look out for photos of these projects in the projects section over the coming months.…

Projects Funded in Round 1

01/02/2019

In 2018, after a successful pilot round, Emergence Foundation launched another round of grant-giving. This time seven projects were awarded funding, reflecting a diversity of forums dedicated to effecting social and cultural change. Below is the list of projects that…

Results of the Pilot Round

28/10/2018

In the first half of 2018 Emergence Foundation launched a pilot for our new grant-giving application process. We received a total of seventeen applications with a variety of stimulating, visionary projects – from individual start-ups to established charities and everything…