About Common Call

Common Call is committed to redressing the lack of resources, skills and tools that inequality of resource allocation metes upon the Black community in the UK. Through the provision of funding and wrap-around support, we will empower Black people building organisations that have been negatively affected by the COVID crisis to engage actively and beneficially in the communities in which they live. 

Black-led organisations are often unable to access the amount of funding that is needed to carry out great pieces of work that will create a transformative impact on underserved communities around the country because they have limited track record of finance or funds management. Through Common Call CORE, we can support them and give them a better chance to continue their services and navigate this crisis.

Our goal is to make it easier for Black people with lived experience of key issues to build and sustain social enterprises and charitable organisations that solve the problems they had to fight to overcome.
We will help grantees:

• Get better informed about their options (moving to new methods of delivery) post-COVID19.
• Develop new enterprising activities and earned income strategies.
• Test the viability of specific propositions.
• Develop clear implementable action plans for such activity.​

We are specifically working with organisations that are creating impact in deprived communities and providing services to people that have been adversely affected by the COVID crisis in terms of their physical health, mental health and/or financially. The beneficiaries of the organisations we fund will primarily be people that identify as Black or Mixed with Black.

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Press Releases and Announcements

2022

• March 2022 - Insights into the Lived Experience of Black-led impact organisations

​2021

• November 2021 - Common Call Fund Two report
• October 2021 - Common Call funds 36 organisations as part of Common Call Fund Two
• May 2021 - Do it Now Now launches Common Call Fund Two to provide grants to organisations supporting the development of Black Communities
• February 2021  - Comic Relief’s £2.8m fund for specialist UK projects tackling COVID-19 racial inequalities
• February 2021 - Reports: 'Stories from the frontline" and "This is what we know now'

2020

• July 2020 - Do it Now Now Launches Common Call COVID Fund to Support Black-led Charities and Social Enterprises

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