Our programs
Act Together helps community innovators turn ideas into action with practical support and flexible funding.
We back local changemakers with what they need most.
Capability
Mentoring, coaching and training tailored to each person’s goals
Relationships
Connections with peers and mentors to exchange ideas, ease isolation, and learn from each other
Funding
Small grants that turn ideas into action
PROGRAM - SINCE 2025
Timor-Leste Social Innovation Program
We support women and young people running local businesses and community programs — building livelihoods, strengthening communities, and opening new paths forward.
PARTNER
In partnership with Timor-Leste Food Lab
Act Together partners with Timor-Leste Food Lab, a social enterprise tackling food insecurity, malnutrition, and unemployment in Timor-Leste through community-driven capacity building and business development.
Since 2016, the Timor-Leste Food Lab team has supported a new generation of young Timorese social entrepreneurs with coaching and training in financial literacy, organisational management, life skills, product innovation, and marketing. They also foster peer learning and exchange between youth, entrepreneurs, and community leaders to address complex challenges related to food, nutrition, and sustainable livelihoods.
Timor-Leste Food Lab helps facilitate Act Together’s first Social Innovation Collective in Timor-Leste and mentors the people and initiatives we support.
PROGRAM - STARTING 2026
Rohingya Community Movement Building
The Rohingya are one of the world's most persecuted and long-displaced communities, with more than a million people living in refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, and further communities across the region.
Communities know their own needs, priorities and risks better than anyone, and leadership from within is what makes change lasting — and after decades of being spoken about and decided for, the act of leading is meaningful in itself.
We're working alongside emerging Rohingya leaders, particularly women and young people, to build skills, confidence and connections, so communities can navigate displacement on their own terms.
PARTNER
‘Roots, Resilience and Hope’ - a Rohingya community leadership collective
During consultations across refugee camps in Bangladesh, Hafsar Tameesuddin and the community leaders she met with developed the idea for a collective of their own — a space for Rohingya leaders to connect, support and strengthen community-led initiatives. Together, they named it Roots, Resilience and Hope.
Hafsar is leading the collective's early-stage development, alongside the community leaders shaping it from the ground up. Act Together provides institutional support — fundraising, governance and financial accountability — while the community works toward its own long-term ambition of being an independent, community-led organisation.