Celebrating Impact and Looking Forward
Our impact report, new content, funding opportunities and more!
Hello and Happy New Year!
I hope you have had a joyful winter break, filled with rest and nourishment.
After spending the last few months deep in our reporting, I’m excited to open our first newsletter of the year by sharing that our 2024-2025 Impact Report has now been published. This report celebrates our impact for our last financial year - September 2024 to August 2025.
Filled with insights from our projects, it’s been wonderful to spend time reflecting on the feedback we’ve received and the impact our work has had. A huge thank you to you all for being part of that in different ways!
Looking back on the past year, there is much to celebrate, particularly when I think of all the different ways in which the All The Elements community members have been working for change (take a look at our News page for a tiny snapshot of the exciting people and projects, and you’ll see what I mean!). It has been far from easy for many of us, but we see the huge amount of passion and energy driving change, and the impact that your work has.
As we step into this new year, we’re asking ourselves how we can continue to support our community of grassroots changemakers as the landscape changes and shifts. We’ve spent 2025 deepening our core offerings - and now in 2026 the question is “what’s next”?
We’ll share more as our offerings develop, but in the meantime you’ll find this newsletter filled with community updates, articles and opportunities - and, of course, more insights from our Impact Report.
With love & joy,
Frankie
Today’s newsletter comes from Frankie, All The Elements Communications Director. Find out more about me and the rest of the team on our website.
Read Our 2024-2025 Impact Report
Our 2024-2025 Impact Report highlights the work that All The Elements has carried out over our financial year from September 2024 - August 2025. In a tricky year for diversity in society as a whole, we are proud to have continued to support our community of those underrepresented and systemically excluded from the outdoors to continue to access the UK outdoors.
Read Our Latest Articles -
On Safety and Confidence for Women Runners - Written by Lorna Pontefract, from Bird Outdoors
Did you know that... a recent study of women in the North West of England found more than two-thirds of women experience harassment while running?
In our latest article Lorna, from women-led outdoors community Bird Outdoors, shares her insights on the everyday safety challenges faced by women runners, and offers ideas on how community can help.
2026 Awareness Days - Key Dates for our Community
Marking awareness days can be a powerful way of connecting to wider movements. Over the last few years we’ve loved seeing the different ways in which our community has leveraged these key dates to plan events and raise awareness about their work. To make it easier to plan your own celebrations, and support and celebrate more diversity areas, we’ve compiled a list of key awareness days, weeks, and months taking place in 2026. These include events that are UK-based as well as those recognised internationally, spanning a wide range of diversity and inclusion themes. We’ve tried to include as many as possible, but this list isn’t exhaustive. If there is a day that we haven’t listed here that you think we should include, please let us know by emailing hello@alltheelements
Recently Added to The Website
🌱 Here are this month’s new additions to our Online Directory - three groups and organisations working to make the outdoors more accessible and representative
Climb Out - Peak District National Park, Derbyshire (Gender and Sexuality) - Annual LGBTQ+ outdoor climbing festival, with a strong focus on intersectionality and inclusion. Find out more >>
Nacro Greater Manchester Outdoor Learning - Greater Manchester (Gender and Sexuality, Limited Financial Means Young People, People of Colour): Provide access to the outdoors for underrepresented communities through outdoor learning - including activities such as outdoors sports, bushcraft skills and environmental education. Find out more >>
Step Out Mentoring - South London, Greater London (Young People): An early intervention organisation that provides support for people aged 8-18 through outdoor-based 1:1 mentoring and group workshops. Find out more >>
We’re always adding to our resources as we come across new groups, press, podcasts, books and research - tell us if we’re missing something by filling in this quick form (or you can also drop us an email!)
Check out the full online directory here.
Funding Opportunities 🚀
Here are three new funding opportunities that could help support your work, recently added to our Funding Opportunities & Resource Page:
Mayor of London - Green Roots Fund
For community projects that enhance green and blue spaces in London.
Amount Available: £10,000 - £500,000 (at least 10% match funding required, which could include in-kind donations, see here)
Application Deadline: 22nd January 2026
Funding Type: Project based
Registration Status: Registered charities, formally constituted not-for-profits and local authorities
Location: Greater London
This fund supports community projects that last up to 2 years, enhance blue and green spaces in London and address issues such as inequality, biodiversity loss and climate resilience.
They are looking for projects that fall into these two categories:
Implementation work: activities that improve the physical space, eg- creation, improvement and restoration of green space, waterways, wetlands or other habitats, rewilding, tree planting, species reintroduction, and climate adaptation measures.
Enabling work: activities like research, design, community engagement and more.
Find out more here
The Alliance for Youth Organising - Anchor Fund
For support of youth organising and creation of safe spaces for young people (up to age 35) who face systemic injustice.
Amount Available: £85,000
Application Deadline: 26th January
Funding Type: Project based
Registration Status: Constituted organisations
Location: UK
This grant is for organisations that work with young people (up to age of 35) to support youth organising. Alongside directly confronting power structures, this grant can be used to support work that focuses on creating safe spaces, healing, and strengthening belonging and belief for people who face systemic injustice.
Find out more here
The National Deaf Children’s Society - Community Grant
Running costs for projects that support deaf children and their families
Amount Available: £1,000 - £10,000
Application Deadline: N/A - Open fund
Funding Type: Project based
Registration Status: Constituted organisations and/or Organisations with a governing document - see here
Location: UK
Each grant is for 12 months and is intended to cover the essential running costs such as venue hire, transport, promotional costs, wages for sessional workers, interpreters and language tutors and equipment.
Find out more here
If you know of funding that you think would be useful to the community, please email us at hello@alltheelements.co.
Online Socials
Our first online social of 2026 is on Monday 26th January. We are looking forward to seeing you again and welcoming new faces as we start the year together.
Register below to join us and see the full list of our 2026 social dates.
2026 General (Online) Socials!
What: Our socials are the opportunity to meet like-minded individuals working to create change in diversity in the UK outdoors. Our community covers all diversity areas, all activities and all outdoor sector roles - all we ask is for you to join us with an open and collaborative attitude. Click on the links below to register!
Where: Online
When:
Monday 26th January, 7pm Register here to attend >>
Thursday 26th March, 7pm Register here to attend >>
Monday 25th May, 7pm Register here to attend >>
Thursday 24th September, 7pm Register here to attend >>
Monday 23rd November, 7pm Register here to attend >>
Are you a Disability Campaigner? Keep an eye out for our 2026 Disability Campaigners’ (Online) Social dates, coming soon!
To see all our events in one place, visit the Events Page on our website.
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Have a great day!