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Backing refugee leadership – not just talking about it

Join The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) and Cambio Consultancy, with support from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, for a bold, action-driven event both showcasing refugee-led organisations (RLOs) and challenging the sector to share power with RLOs. Real organisations. Real power. Real action.

This is not a typical event about refugees. RLOs are the grassroots of community-led change, and can drive the refugee, migration and social impact sectors forward. They work tirelessly to create real change. Yet refugee social entrepreneurs face two major challenges:

• In public forums, leaders from refugee backgrounds and their RLOs are often talked about, instead of doing the talking. 
• RLOs face an uphill battle to sustain and grow their impact.

This event is about power shifting.

Fundraising at times may feel like both an art and a science, but it takes on a whole other dimension when both donors and beneficiaries are a partnership with God at the centre, using money, ministry and skill where it’s needed; not begrudging, not manipulating. Partnership in giving and receiving becomes a spiritual practice, as vital for our personal discipleship as it is for the work we do.
As Henri Nouwen puts it, “our confidence in our mission and vision, and our freedom to love the person to whom we are talking about donating money, does not depend on how that person responds… We can remain secure in God’s love.” When we start with God’s generosity to us it enables us to be generous to others, an antidote to materialism, good for our souls as well as for society. If fundraising is inextricably connected with faith then it becomes even more of an adventure.
Faith and Fundraising Conference 2026 offers you leading speakers, on-hand expertise and invaluable in-person networking.