Esther Foreman (CF 2013) from Brent in London is the founder and CEO of The Social Change Agency and The Social Change Nest, which offer consulting, training and communications help to movements creating social change. She is also co-founder of her local mutual aid group. During the pandemic, her organisation has supported over 300 new community leaders and groups across the UK to raise and manage finances transparently inside communities.

She will use her grant to expand this work, providing long-term support for these and other groups, through creating a national network of new community leaders to share experiences and learn from each other. Additionally, she will develop online resources and provide training on how to build local funds, manage volunteers, work with the voluntary sector, run food banks and more. She hopes this will lead to an increase in community-led resilience.

Esther's Fellowship to Australia, Canada and New Zealand in 2013 explored how activists can use their personal experience to effect change.

Funda Kemal (CF 2005) from Bath is an architect and urban designer.

She will use her grant to identify these lost or forgotten buildings which could be transformed into safe spaces, and develop two pilot projects to enable two local charities to resume support services. She will initially map and survey these buildings and premises in her own city, Bath, profile them for their suitability to meet the needs of the city's vulnerable community, and then develop her findings into practical proposals to deliver the two pilot projects. She hopes these projects could be replicated around the UK, building both community resilience and sustainability.

Funda's Fellowship to Canada, Germany, Mexico and the USA in 2005 explored community and conservation-based regeneration projects.