Building a more sustainable solidarity infrastructure

Across the justice and migration sectors, organisations are continuing to navigate an increasingly hostile environment. Funding is precarious, demand is rising and the people doing this work are carrying enormous personal and collective burdens. Burnout is not an edge case; it is a structural feature of a sector asked to do more with less, in conditions that are designed to exhaust.

Led by Trust for London, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Lumos Transforms, this session shares learning from a pilot supporting individuals and organisations to stabilise chronic stress, reduce burnout, and strengthen the relational conditions for coordinated action.How do funders invest in the connective tissue between organisations? How do they resource the people doing the hardest work? What does moving from short-term crisis response to long-term solidarity infrastructure actually require? Through reflection, discussion and embodied practice, the session asks what it would mean to treat solidarity infrastructure as essential, not optional.

This session will be particularly relevant if you are thinking about how to resource the people and organisations doing the hardest work, and understand what genuine solidarity infrastructure demands of funders.