Movements Trust Climate Camp Activists The Climate Justice Camp recognizes the ever-present gap in the globalized climate justice movement and offers aplatform that unites the Global South across multiple intersections to launch initiatives at the local, national,regional, and international levels to affect systemic change. While movements and groups in the Global North havecontinuous and recurrent opportunities to gather (every northern summer features tens of camps and gatherings)and build capacity and strategies, the same cannot be said for organizers and mobilizers in the Global South. Thereis also a lack of representation and voices from the Global South in the movement and an absenceof diverseperspectives and experiences from regions most affected by climate change, which ultimately undermines theglobal solidarity necessary for meaningful action toward climate justice.The Movements Trust aims to build off the momentum of the gathering earlier this year and support these youngclimate activists and movements to progress their message forward and support their efforts but offering financialsupport for their actions and activities. A pooled fund has been developed ready for distribution in early 2024.TheMovements Trust is working with camp attendees to develop an advisory panel to contribute to, and haveoversight of the distributionof the grants. A reserved percentage of the pooled fund total will be used toremunerate the panel fairly for their work. Grant activities will be report back to the Camp scheduled for 2024, anda second year ofthe pooled fund is planned for distribution in the same way, scaling up the number of grantsavailable.

The Movements Trust was founded in 2021 to act as a conduit to increase the funding to reach social movements.It acts as both a values driven fiscalsponsor and regranter for movements in the UK and in the global majorityworld, and aims to use regranting practice to demonstrate better ways to grant to social movements. One of itsfounders, Sarah Greenfield Clark remains involved in TMT’s operations asa freelance associate and is leading thisproject.TMT comprises an active Board of 7 Trustees, include three finance professionals, who set the strategy, overseeand conduct due diligence on movement applications, and monitor financial and governance responsibilitiesTMT is run by Executive Director, Anna Henry who is supported in addition to Sarah Greenfield Clark as chiefclimate movement builder, by a Movement Officer, and an Operational Manager who runs the financial andapplication systems. In TMT’s first year, just under £0.5M was distributed to movements; in 2023-24 we havealready exceeded this and forecast distributing at least £0.6M.

Sarah Greenfield Clark attended the Camp and facilitated discussion with participants about the best use, focus andpurpose behind a grant fund to most effectively support the ideas and movements generated by the Camp. Shenow maintains an active core of delegates as advisers who will work with TMT to oversee, assess and decide ondistribution of the grants in January 2024.In its grant making and sponsorship to date , TMT has developed robust due diligence processes, matched by astrong, values led and coproduction-based system of grant distribution and follow up, which prioritises movementsin grant making processes.TMT willsupport the core group and grant recipients to report back on progress, learning and plans at the nextCamp in 2024, in partnership with Greenpeace Roots, and will be developing a second pooled funds to distribute toCamp participants in 2024, building onlearning from this year.

Risk – the funds distributed will not be put to effective use: The Climate Camp 2023 was a collaboration betweenpartners Roots, Greenpeace MENA, Oxfam Novib, 350.org, Amnesty International500 attendees have been carefully selected by theRoots coordinating team from over 5,000 applications, to bringtogether the individuals and movements with unique potential to respond to the climate emergency, and to ensurethat participants would benefit from the event. Therefore, the process to assign grants toapplicants from thiscohort is assisted by this preceding stage, which has identified legitimate, effective and impactful individualsalready; in addition, the involvement of a core group of participants in shaping and assigning the grants will allowfor a greater relevance in the use of the funds. Using TMT’s established practice in movement oriented grantingprocesses, and established due diligence and application systems we will be able to distribute funds for this smallfund effectively.Risk: lack of follow-up. Although granted movements will report to the Camp next year, we may not succeed insecuring a second year of funding to distribute. During the pooled fund development phase this year, a highnumber of potential donors expresseda desire to contribute but due to phasing, were only able to commit to afund in 2024, so there is a high level of confidence we can repeat, and scale up, this year’s programme. In theevent of not securing funds, TMT will ensure that learning and best practicefrom the fund is still promoted andutilised effectively, and will be able to continue to support the granted movements with support as we do ourother movements.