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Scale Accelerator

Organisations building for impact at scale

Since 2019, our Scale Accelerator programme has worked with more than 120 mission-driven organisations across 14 countries. Together with our funding partners, we've supported them to build serious, sustainable strategies for impact at scale."

REACH OUT TO US

SCALE ACCELERATOR IN NUMBERS

120+

Organisations

 

14+

Countries

 

7

Years running

 

OUR ALUMNI

Organisations building for impact at scale

Accelerator year: 2023  |  Focus area: Primary healthcare  |  Geography: South Africa

Part of the Scale Accelerator: Women's Empowerment cohort co-funded by private philanthropy, Unjani Clinics is a South African nonprofit that empowers black women as professional nurses to own and run clinics that deliver quality, affordable primary healthcare in low-income communities.
Organisations building for impact at scale

Accelerator year: 2025 | Focus area: Maternal and child health | Geography: Tanzania

Part of the Scale Accelerator: Women's Economic Empowerment cohort co-funded by private philanthropy, WAJAMAMA is a women-led grassroots organisation in Zanzibar dedicated to improving access to reproductive, maternal and child healthcare in marginalised communities, particularly during the first 1,000 days of life.
Organisations building for impact at scale

Accelerator year: 2023  |  Focus area: Gender-based violence  |  Geography: South Africa

Part of the Scale Accelerator: Women's Empowerment cohort co-funded by private philanthropy, MOSAIC is a South African nonprofit organisation dedicated to ending gender-based violence, providing survivors with access to justice, healing and support alongside prevention work in communities.
Organisations building for impact at scale

Accelerator year: 2020  |  Focus area: Homelessness  |  Geography: United Kingdom

Part of the Scale Accelerator cohort funded by The National Lottery, Social Bite is a charity and social business working to end homelessness across the UK by providing homes, jobs, food and support.
Organisations building for impact at scale

Accelerator year: 2023  |  Focus area: Preventing child sexual violence  |  Geography: Finland

Part of the Scale Accelerator: Preventing Childhood Sexual Violence cohort funded by the Oak Foundation, Protect Children is a Finnish nonprofit organisation dedicated to preventing all forms of sexual violence against children, combining research with survivor-centred advocacy and prevention work, particularly in the online environment.
MEET THE ORGANISATIONS

“What’s impressive about the Scale Accelerator is the ability to back ambition and organisations that have vision but perhaps not the time or the tools to develop that scale thinking.”

– Emma Ackerman, Funding Strategy Director, The National Lottery Community Fund

Preventing Childhood Sexual Violence

APPLY FOR OUR NEW PROGRAMME

Leaders of Scale, part of our Scale Accelerator on Preventing Childhood Sexual Violence in partnership with the Oak Foundation, gives two leaders at organisations with a proven track record, a fully funded place to learn how to scale their impact.

Open to applications across Europe, Africa, North America, and Latin America.

Deadline: 30 September 2026.

Learn more and apply

SCALE ACCELERATOR BADGE

LONG-TERM COMMITMENT TO IMPACT

The Scale Accelerator Badge has been designed to recognise the commitment to impact at scale of the organisations selected for our programmes. The badges are awarded to organisations and individuals who went through a competitive process and completed our expert-led, fully-funded scaling support, making their achievements visible.

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PAST ACCELERATORS AND PROGRAMMES

2025: Women’s Economic Empowerment, East Africa

Supporting NGOs and social enterprises to sustainably scale solutions that strengthen economic resilience for women working in agriculture and other rural sectors in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

Supported by private donors and foundations.

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2023: Women’s Empowerment, Southern Africa

A programme for ambitious, locally-led NGOs in Southern Africa, giving them the skills, tools, and support to work out how to scale and deliver their great work to more people.

Supported by private donors and foundations.

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2023: Solid Ground for Children, Bulgaria

Supporting NGOs and social enterprises to sustainably scale solutions that strengthen economic resilience for women working in agriculture and other rural sectors in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

Supported by Tanya’s Dream Fund, Swiss Philanthropy Foundation.

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FUNDER PARTNERSHIP

BESPOKE SUPPORT TO MAKE IMPACT AT SCALE

We partner with ambitious funders to deliver targeted programmes across sectors, issue areas and geographies.

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