Cambridge Solidarity Fund

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Fiscal Host: The Social Change Nest

We are a solidarity fund for the CB1-CB5 area, redistributing income in the most unequal city in the UK. No-strings-attached grants for those in financial hardship. Check out cambridgesolidarityfund.uk or @SolidarityCam on Twitter.

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About

Cambridge Solidarity Fund redistributes wealth among the residents of this city, which is known to be one of the most unequal in the UK.

We help those who are in financial crisis – perhaps waiting for Universal Credit, unemployed due to the pandemic, or simply in work and still struggling to make ends meet. We believe our recipients are the best judges of their own needs. This model - of no-strings-attached small grants - is also used by the Red Cross in crisis situations. We believe poverty in the UK, and inequality in Cambridge specifically, is its very own crisis.

All the administrators of our Open Collective page are also organisers for Cambridge Community Kitchen, a well-known local food solidarity organisation which won a Mayor’s Award for its work in 2020.

If you're curious about how we operate, or unsure because we're not a charity, take a look at the explanations on our website. We're also happy to chat by email - talk to us at [email protected].

If you want to claim from the fund, don't use this page - it's too fiddly! Fill in our form and we'll handle the admin for you.

Contribute

Become a financial contributor.

Financial Contributions

Membership

Coffee

Every little helps - we welcome anything you can spare each month. Less than a fiver monthly can help build our fund and keep it sustainable.

Starts at

£1 GBP / month

Latest activity by

+ 9

Membership

Takeaway

For the price of a takeaway per month, you can make a more substantial commitment to keeping our fund sustainable - give us a fiver, tenner or twen... Read more

Starts at

£5 GBP / month

Latest activity by

+ 47

Membership

Dinner out (fund half a grant)

Swap a dinner out per month and get us over half-way to funding a monthly grant for a Cambridge resident in need. Maybe ask a friend to match you?

£25 GBP / month

Latest activity by

+ 17

Membership

New trainers

£50 each month will directly fund just over one grant for somebody in Cambridge in financial hardship.

£50 GBP / month

Latest activity by

+ 18

Membership

FANCY new trainers

£100 each month will directly fund two and a half grants for Cambridge residents in financial hardship, helping make our fund sustainable.

£100 GBP / month

Latest activity by

+ 5

Membership

Super redistibutor

Are you one of the people on high incomes who make Cambridge the most unequal city in the UK? Can you help us even things out?

Starts at

£200 GBP / month

Latest activity by

+ 2

Custom contribution

Donation

Make a custom one-time or recurring contribution.

Latest activity by

+ 278

Membership

Jeff Bezos

There's an Amazon Development Centre in Cambridge so you're technically a member of the local business community...?

£10,000 GBP / month

Latest activity by

Be the first one to contribute!

Events

Cambridge Solidarity Fund is hosting the following events.

Past event

Solidarity Fundraiser at the Lockon

Jun 23, 2023

06:30 PM-10:00 PM UTC

A fundraiser featuring local artists as part of Lockfest 2023

Attended by

Top financial contributors

Individuals

Incognito

£7,800 GBP since Sep 2021

Guest

£5,000 GBP since Jun 2024

Incognito

£4,000 GBP since Jan 2022

Margaret Comer

£3,700 GBP since Oct 2021

Jason Scott-Warren

£3,500 GBP since Jan 2022

£2,413 GBP since Jul 2023

Guest

£2,000 GBP since Mar 2023

Theodore Muscillo

£1,910 GBP since Dec 2021

Incognito

£1,900 GBP since Oct 2021

Matt

£1,850 GBP since Nov 2022

Sophie Waters

£1,800 GBP since Oct 2021

Incognito

£1,800 GBP since Dec 2021

Incognito

£1,780 GBP since Jun 2022

Helen Cook

£1,700 GBP since Nov 2022

Dai Morgan

£1,600 GBP since Mar 2022

Organizations

Tiny Blue Robots

£1,761.2 GBP since Jan 2022

Accountable Pitch Perfect

£200 GBP since Dec 2021

Cambridge Solidarity Fund is all of us

Our contributors 284

Thank you for supporting Cambridge Solidarity Fund.

Gromit

Admin

£525 GBP

mole

Admin

£211 GBP

S F

Admin

£95 GBP

Oakish

Admin

£56 GBP

I wanna sticker! 😃

Spruce

Admin

Crow

Admin

Incognito

Super redistibutor

£7,800 GBP

Guest

£5,000 GBP

Incognito

£4,000 GBP

Margaret Comer

FANCY new trainers

£3,700 GBP

Jason Scott-W...

FANCY new trainers

£3,500 GBP

Super redistibutor

£2,413 GBP

Budget

Transparent and open finances.

Grant for S in CB4 (Nov24-030)

from S in CB4 to Cambridge Solidarity Fund • November 16, 2024

-£40.00 GBP

Pending

Grant #228273

Grant for H in CB1 (Nov24-046)

from H in CB1 to Cambridge Solidarity Fund • November 16, 2024

-£40.00 GBP

Pending

Grant #228272

Grants for ref. Nov24-095, Nov24-084, Nov24-083, Nov24-08...

Debit from Cambridge Solidarity Fund to Gromit • November 15, 2024

-£360.00GBP

Paid

Grant #228168

Today’s balance

£1,453.95 GBP

Total raised

£98,973.95 GBP

Total disbursed

£97,520.00 GBP

Estimated annual budget

£33,075.86 GBP

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News from Cambridge Solidarity Fund

Updates on our activities and progress.

Take two minutes to answer some questions and help us out!

Hello CSF supporters! We'd like to know how we can be more effective at finding people to donate. And you, our supporters, are the most knowledgeable people about what motivates people to give to us!...

Published on May 8, 2022 by mole

March update + STICKERS!

Hi everyone, We hope you are having a good (tolerable? survivable?) 2022 so far. We'd like to thank you for supporting us & making it possible for us to keep giving no-strings-attached financial aid to the people of CB1-CB5. If you can...

Published on March 3, 2022 by mole

Why did you give us money? January update & a request for help

Dear solidarity fund supporters, We're writing with a quick update, and a small request. Firstly, we're hugely grateful for every donation that's come in over the past month. We've had donations ranging from £1 to £1000, and each is preciou...

Published on January 16, 2022 by mole