Join ActionAid’s Funding Futures Network

ActionAid's Funding Futures Network is an exclusive network of professionals committed to changing the world with women and girls.

Funding Futures Network (FFN) members are changing the conversation around philanthropy. They believe the people most affected by poverty, violence and inequality are best placed to decide what support they need.

What do Funding Futures Network members do?

FFN members empower women and girls by allowing us to direct their funds to the areas that women and girls tell us are the highest priority. This localised approach ensures women and girls around the world are leading the change in their communities, resulting in long-term sustainable impact. After all, women and girls know their communities best and have a vision for a better future.

Our approach also means that when disasters strike, ActionAid is ready. The Funding Futures Network enables ActionAid to work hand-in-hand with communities to help them rebuild and recover with women and girls at the heart of those plans via our Emergency Action Fund.

How do I join the network?

You can choose to give by Direct Debit by setting up a regular gift below, or making a one-off payment for the year.

You can also get in touch to learn more about the Network and how to get involved.

What happens when I become a member?

As a member, you will make a minimum monthly donation of £25 to our flexible funding pot which is allocated efficiently and effectively according to the areas of greatest need, plus a £1,000 annual gift to the Emergency Action Fund (EAF).

This can be a personal donation or funds you have raised through fundraising activities.

As a member, you will:

  • Network with like-minded professionals, sharing your philanthropy journey and discovering your shared interests.
  • Be the first to receive regular digital updates on our work by joining the network’s online forum. You will be able to share articles on the topics that interest you most on your social media.
  • Have the opportunity to share your skills to help ActionAid continue to deliver innovative and high impact programmes.
  • Attend special events, including insightful briefings and discussions around international development and how philanthropy can address global power inequality.
  • Gain insights from overseas ActionAid colleagues via blog posts, videos and panel discussions to learn more about our work.

Our commitment to you

  • Actively decide the nature of your giving by voting on a project you wish to support as a Network and receive regular updates on the progress.
  • Connect with overseas ActionAid colleagues to share experiences and keep in contact with those who you support.
  • Attend special events, including insightful briefings, discussion forums to meet experts in the field.
  • Be the first to receive regular digital updates on our work by joining the network’s online forum.
  • Become a founding member of the network and assist in shaping the Funding Futures Network.
  • Network with like-minded young professionals and discover common interests.

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How your donation makes a difference

Join the Funding Futures Network today by starting a regular donation.

£75 per month

could provide counselling for a survivor of violence in India and pay her court fees

£50 per month

could provide a month's food package for a family of five in Somaliland

£25 per month

could provide a month’s worth of water for drinking, washing and sanitation

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Get in touch about the Funding Futures Network

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How ActionAid's Funding Futures Network is changing the world with women and girls

Take a look at a project you could support and meet one of our young activists who you could connect with.

Helping young refugees in Lebanon

Lebanon is facing one of the largest refugee influxes in the world. Over a million Syrian refugees live alongside a population of only 4.5 million Lebanese residents - over 20% of Lebanon’s population. Roughly a third of Syrian refugees are between 12 and 18 years old. Without access to education, social activities or basic services, many of these young people struggle to imagine a future for themselves.
 
This project will work with 1,500 young Syrian refugees and Lebanese people aged between 14 and 29, empowering them to lead community change and enhance their skills by:

  • running four 10-day business skills courses and connecting young entrepreneurs with coaches and mentors
  • providing seed funding to at least five new enterprises run collaboratively by young people from refugee and host communities
  • training at least 12 organisations on advocacy and campaigning and supporting them to campaign for improved access to education for marginalised groups

ActionAid Lebanon has started its first all female football team, made up of Syrian refugees

Jo Harrison/ActionAid

Salamatu (middle row, fourth from left) campaigning with activists on International Youth Day in Tamale, northern Ghana

Deborah Lomotey/ActionAid

Connect with one of our global young activists like Salamatu

Despite being one of the most brilliant students at school, Salamatu Shiraz struggled to get an education in her hometown of Tamale in northern Ghana. To pay for extra classes, exam fees and even school furniture, she sold bread in her local market.

Now 22, Salamatu has been elected Ghana’s National Coordinator of Activista - our global youth network involving more than 250 ActionAid partners and thousands of volunteers in more than 25 countries.

Salamatu supports over 400 young people to advocate for improvements in education quality and access in Ghana and they have already had success - with the government agreeing to put in new desks in four schools.

Top image: Cynthia Ayivor (holding her young daughter) reports and tackles violence against women and girls through an ActionAid community team in rural Ghana. Nana Kofi Acquah/ActionAid

Page updated 29 July 2024