Empowering Community Leaders
Impact Report 2023-2025
A celebration of changemakers building stronger organisations, deeper community power.
Across three years, Do it Now Now supported hundreds of founders and organisations to move from intention to action, from fragility to resilience, and from vision to infrastructure.
A Letter from the Board
As the Board of Do it Now Now, we are proud to introduce this Impact Report: a celebration of what has been built, what has been learned, and what becomes possible when Black and Global Majority-led organisations are supported with care, rigour, and belief.
Between 2023 and 2025, DiNN delivered 20 programmes, supported 413 organisations and individuals, distributed £2,654,723 in grant funding, and grew a community of thousands of changemakers across the UK. These numbers matter, but they are only part of the story.
Behind every programme is a founder trying to move from survival to sustainability. Behind every grant is an organisation meeting a community need that might otherwise go unsupported. Behind every Health Check is a moment of honesty: a chance to name what is fragile, recognise what is strong, and build the systems that allow good work to last.
This report shows that Black and Global Majority-led organisations are not short of vision, ambition, talent, or commitment. What they are too often denied is infrastructure: the governance, finance, networks, capacity, and long-term support that allow their work to grow safely and sustainably.
DiNN exists to close that gap.
As a Board, we are proud of the way DiNN continues to combine heart with evidence. The impact described in these pages is deeply human, but it is also measurable: stronger organisations, more confident leaders, deeper partnerships, increased community impact, and a growing ecosystem of alumni, advisors, funders, and partners.
This report is both a celebration and an invitation.
It celebrates the founders, grantees, alumni, trainers, Critical Friends, staff, funders, and partners who have contributed to this work. It also invites others to join us in building the infrastructure Black and Global Majority changemakers need, not only to survive, but to lead, grow, and build what lasts.
Thank you to everyone whose work is reflected in this report. Thank you for trusting DiNN. Thank you for building with us. And thank you for reminding us what becomes possible when communities are resourced with care.
Community at a Glance
In 2025, our community grew to 2,450 members across the UK, with Black and Global Majority-led organisations at the heart of everything we do. From £2.65 million in grants disbursed to leadership confidence nearly doubling, see the data behind our growing impact.
Theory of Change
Our Theory of Change starts with a simple belief: when Black and Global Majority changemakers get the right support at the right stage, they build organisations that transform communities. Discover the five-level system behind DiNN's programmes, and the data proving it works.
How Do it Now Now Keeps Lived Experience at the Centre
Our legitimacy doesn't come from good intentions alone. Meet the Community Advisory Board members, entrepreneurs, therapists, strategists, and alumni, who shape how Do it Now Now governs, decides, and stays accountable to the communities we serve.
How We Design Learning That Moves Founders From Intention To Action
Discover ASAP: our four-stage framework moving Black and Global Majority founders from Awareness through to Personalisation, helping intention become action.
Online Community and Alumni Support: Beyond the Programme
The end of a programme doesn't have to be a cliff edge. From lifetime access to training libraries to alumni dinners and peer-led workshops, discover how Do it Now Now keeps its community connected, learning, and growing long after the final session.
From Seed to Scale: What Five Founder Journeys Teach Us About Building Sustainable Social Enterprises
From a solo sip-and-paint business to a parkour gym facing an existential lease crisis, see how DiNN's Level-Based Programmes meet social entrepreneurs where they are, and help them build what lasts.
From Fragility to Resilience: What Our Health Checks Reveal
Every organisation we work with completes a developmental Health Check, first at baseline, then months later. Across 64 organisations in our Innovate Now programme, scores rose with significant gains in governance, finance, and community impact.
The Evidence for Impact: How DiNN Programmes Turn Learning into Outcomes
A strong programme leaves people encouraged and equipped to act. See the data behind DiNN's outcomes, tracking how confidence, partnerships, and funding shift for participants in the months after they complete a programme.
Why The Journey Does Not End When a Programme Finishes
Support rarely arrives as one clean intervention. It's a Health Check here, a grant there, a mentoring session somewhere else. Meet Carib Eats, MEM Academy, and Youth League UK, three founders whose journeys show what happens when support becomes a connected pathway instead.
Partnering to Build Better Pathways to Black and Global Majority-Led Change
Funders like City Bridge Foundation, Wellcome Trust, and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation partner with DiNN because reaching Black and Global Majority-led organisations well takes more than money, it takes lived experience, care, and evidence-based design.
How We Are Solving the Gaps That Stop Black and Global Majority-Led Organisations from Growing
Black and Global Majority-led organisations aren't short on talent or community trust. What's missing is infrastructure: the funding pathways, investment readiness, and civic support that turn good work into lasting impact. Here's where those gaps are, and how DiNN is built to close them.
List of Grantees
From grassroots youth groups to climate initiatives, arts collectives to health-focused CICs, see the full list of Black and Global Majority-led organisations we've supported since 2023, a snapshot of the ecosystem we're helping to build.
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