Join us for this Free Webinar: Are you Funding Ready
Strategic guidance for social impact, grassroots, and community-based projects
Are you working on a community or grassroots initiative and wondering what it takes to be truly funding ready?
Join us for a free, practical webinar designed to help projects like yours move from idea to fundable reality.
What You’ll Learn
How to assess your project’s funding readiness
Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
Professional practices that build credibility with funders
Alternative and community-based funding options
How to develop strong relationships with funders and partners
This session will be hosted by Paul Phillips and Aimee Fenech from the Funding Circle Services, a team dedicated to helping permaculture and regenerative initiatives become financially sustainable through ethical and professional fundraising support.
Who It’s For
Grassroots projects seeking their first grants
Social impact initiatives building long-term sustainability
Community groups wanting to professionalize their fundraising
Networks and organizations supporting local change-makers
Cost
The webinar is offered free of charge, in the spirit of fair share and community support.
If you find value in it, donations to the Funding Circle Community Fund are gracefully accepted.
Your contribution helps us continue providing professional fundraising services to grassroots projects that otherwise couldn’t afford them.
Event Details
Date: November 27th, 2025
Time: 16:00 UTC / 17:00 UK / 18:00 CET
Duration: 60 minutes
Format: Online interactive webinar
Registration link will be released this week!
Together, we can strengthen the capacity of grassroots projects to attract funding that truly supports long-term, regenerative impact.
This event is generously co-hosted by:
- International Permaculture Collaborative Laboratory
- European Permaculture Network
- Global Regeneration Colab
- Gaia U International
- Stichting Reculture Foundation
- Permaculture Association
Organiser
Our Domain is in Finance & Economics
- Identify and highlight value exchange / funding opportunities
- Identify, secure and mobilise resources that support participants to nurture existing initiatives and develop new eco-social enterprises, projects and initiatives that address identified challenges in permaculture, or add additional value to permaculture networks;
- Identify and build relationships with fundraisers and fiscal sponsors working within permaculture and support them to be more effective
- Apply for funding on behalf of CoLab, its members and appropriate initiatives of the wider permaculture movement
- Create an opportunity to access resources and research for permaculture related projects and innovations in the field
- Identify priorities, gaps and significant change-making opportunities in the permaculture movement that need resourcing
- Provide proposal writing assistance, partnership or leadership, including references and movement information
- Provide advice / consultations to enhance aspiring funding applicants, including monitoring and evaluation
- Provide training and sharing resources related to fundraising
- Create a community of practice
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