Our approach

Thirty Percy the organisation
How we do things is as important as what we do. We use philanthropy as our jumping off point but are not restricted to this. We’re exploring what it means to organise and govern our resources and money differently. Our aspiration is to create an organisation that is designed with feminine lifecycles and leadership at its heart.

Change Makers
We provide direct and unrestricted investment to individuals, at different stages of their lifecycle. Activists, social justice warriors, artists, thinkers and dreamers who are committed to creating alternative systems and visions, generating new knowledge and cultivating community. Our focus is to support people who are committed to a decolonised practice that centres Black feminist values and are working towards liberated freedoms.

Wealth Holders
For changemakers to flourish we need activated wealth holders who are transforming the way they govern and organise their money. We’re exploring how best to support wealth holders as part of the paradigm shift towards new economics and spiral investing approaches.

Project Inside Out
Project Inside out is Thirty Percy’s evolving inquiry into what it looks like to design care-centred organisational infrastructure. It is focused on designing and refining the inner wirings and workings of Thirty Percy with a commitment to turning the inside out by open-sourcing what we learn and build. 
Internally, this work includes everything from contract templates and organisational health check tools, to working rhythms designed around the wheel of the year, a directory of services, financial and operational systems, and processes for decision-making and accountability. 
Externally, Project Inside Out is also about deepening our offering to the wider ecosystem of changemakers. This includes hosting open sessions like a weekly Org Hour, holding gatherings for practitioners and sharing open-source tools and templates. It also includes making Thirty Percy’s physical space available as a resource - a place for convening, collaborating and imagining together.

For more info on Project Inside Out, please see Lily’s blog.

Fiscal Hosting
For the past year, Thirty Percy has engaged a small team of collaborators to explore Thirty Percy’s role in fiscal hosting, looking to understand more about how Thirty Percy can better meet the needs of those seeking change, and what possibilities fiscal hosting might open up for the wider field of philanthropy.
Fiscal hosting is when a legally registered organisation holds and distributes money on behalf of an individual, project, group or movement, often because they don’t have the capacity, option or desire to register as a formal legal entity. It is a way of money flowing to where it’s needed — from those typically excluded from traditional funding streams, to those experimenting with new and transformational ways of organising.
We see fiscal hosting as a way to support money to flow from those typically excluded from traditional funding streams, to those experimenting with new and transformational ways of organising. Whether it's unincorporated groups, grassroots activists or complex, mission-led collaborations, fiscal hosting can both make it easier to receive money, and support the creation of healthier and more appropriate power dynamics. 
The team has so far been focused on banking learnings from past and current experiences of fiscal hosting, supporting experiments to test different roles a funder could play, and convening other perspectives through interviews and a ‘hive mind’ group of people representing different roles in the system (changemakers, hosts, funders). 

We will be publishing a report at the end of June 2026 to share more about this work and our next steps. We will add a link once this is ready.

Our journey towards decolonisation & anti-racism work
What would it look like for a funder to step boldly into decolonised ways of funding, being, and advocating? Seeking deep integration of our whole selves as team members in our work? Since autumn 2024, we have been in partnership with the fabulous Martha Awojobi and Natalie Armitage of JMB Consulting – our guides and facilitators on a holistic anti-racist and decolonisation journey, aimed at transforming Thirty Percy and the team on a personal, interpersonal, intra-structural and organisational level. 
We are aiming to shift towards practice and organisational culture that is truly decolonised. From a foundation of racial literacy and a felt understanding of the ongoing harms of colonial-capitalism and white supremacy culture, through critical reflection of our current practice and towards collective transformation. Our decolonisation work with JMB is a step into a new ‘possible’ for us as an organisation, team, and culture.   It also deeply complements all our work on Project Inside Out .  Find out more here: Our journey towards decolonisation & anti-racism work.