Evoca 2025 in Review
Between January and December 2025, Evoca Foundation advanced its mission to support women and girls, equitable education, and intersectional climate action through a combination of targeted grant-making and high-impact creative campaigns.
As the Foundation’s first full year operating as a registered charity, 2025 focused on laying strong foundations: backing frontline, women-led organisations; preserving Indigenous and ancestral knowledge; supporting education-access for girls; and using storytelling and the arts to shift narratives and accelerate public awareness. Across geographies and disciplines, Evoca’s work this year contributed to both immediate community benefit and longer-term systems change.
Advancing Indigenous and Ancestral Knowledge
In January, Evoca awarded pre-production funding to The Wisdom Keepers for A Soul Contract, an Indigenous-led documentary following activist and artist Jacob Johns and the global Wisdom Keeper Delegation. The grant enabled critical preparatory work, ensuring Indigenous teachings, climate leadership, and community-rooted approaches to environmental justice could be documented with integrity and shared globally. The project aligns closely with Evoca’s commitment to creative climate action and the amplification of Indigenous leadership as central to ecological stewardship.
That same month, Evoca awarded a grant to Youterus Health for Unmuting the Womb: From Silence to Sovereignty, a documentation and storytelling initiative rooted in West African Griot traditions. The funding supported the establishment of a storytelling hub, the recruitment of African women documentarians, and the launch of community-based story collection through oral histories, textile art, photography, and digital archiving. By preserving African women’s health narratives and traditional healing knowledge, the project strengthens community-centred wellbeing while challenging exclusionary global health narratives.
Climate Resilience and Women-Led Environmental Action
Sol y Verde
In May, Evoca funded the core operational and education programmes of Sol y Verde, a grassroots organisation based in Guatemala’s Petén region. Founded on principles of ecological restoration, regenerative agriculture, and ancestral Mayan wisdom, Sol y Verde works to build food sovereignty and climate resilience. Evoca’s support sustained three women’s green health groups and women-led youth nature programmes, with accompanying childcare provision to ensure women’s full participation. These programmes enable women to deepen their ecological practice, restore local ecosystems, and break cycles of poverty through seed sovereignty and regenerative food systems.
In July, Evoca supported Glitch, funding the second iteration of an interactive AI-powered experience that uses user input, biodiversity data, and augmented reality to generate personalised digital vegetable gardens in urban spaces. Launching in spring 2026, the project combines technology, play, and environmental education to re-imagine how urban communities engage with biodiversity, food systems, and climate futures.
In November, Evoca’s grant to Legacy of War Foundation supported the terracing of a steep plot of land belonging to the Abunzumumwe Cooperative in Gasabo District, Rwanda. The funding covered labour and contingency costs to stabilise the slope, prevent soil erosion caused by heavy rainfall, and restore the land ahead of the 2025 Season A planting. By improving water management and climate resilience while employing local community members, the project strengthened both environmental sustainability and local livelihoods.
Education, Girls’ Rights, and Economic Support
Bella Foundation
Throughout the year, Evoca continued to prioritise girls’ access to education and long-term economic opportunity. In response to rising tuition and uniform costs, Evoca provided additional funding to Bella Foundation to ensure all 11 supported students could remain in school. Bella works to end child marriage in rural Nigeria by keeping girls in education and supporting survivors to pursue higher education. Evoca’s support also contributes to school-based prevention programmes and a higher-education-led magazine raising awareness of child marriage.
In August, Evoca funded Slam Out Loud’s Arts for All programme and the Jijivisha Fellowship, strengthening arts-based socio-emotional learning at both systemic and classroom levels in India. The funding supported large-scale teacher training, curriculum development, and institutional capacity building, while also enabling the placement of trained art educators in underserved schools. Together, these interventions expanded access to creative education, built emotional and climate literacy, and centred girl-child support through sustained, in-class engagement.
Imagine Her
In November, Evoca renewed its support for Imagine Her’s Social Enterprise & Innovation Program for 2026, empowering rural young women and youth in Uganda to become climate-focused social entrepreneurs. The funding contributed to an intensive MBA-style training programme, mentorship and growth support, and access to patient, returnable startup capital for ventures in sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and climate adaptation. This investment advances women’s leadership in the green economy while creating jobs and community-led economic resilience.
Advocacy, Solidarity, and Cultural Campaigns
Evoca also supported global feminist advocacy through a donation to Equality Now’s 2025 Make Equality Reality Gala, held in New York in October. The event celebrated Equality Now’s role in achieving 15 major legal and policy reforms across four continents, benefiting over 52 million women and girls, while underscoring the importance of solidarity, joy, and sustained allyship in defending human rights during a period of global political and financial uncertainty.
Alongside its grant-making, Evoca delivered a strong slate of public campaigns through Evoca Pictures, using art and storytelling to shift narratives and mobilise public engagement.
International Women’s Day 2025
For International Women’s Day 2025, Evoca commissioned I See Myself in You, an immersive textile installation by Noor Al Tamimi, presented at Battersea Arts Centre. Drawing on textile traditions and mirrored reflection, the work explored shared identity, resilience, and solidarity across generations of women. Realised with a collaborative team of artisans, the installation invited audiences to move from symbolic recognition toward empathy and collective responsibility for gender equity.
World Oceans Day 2025
For World Oceans Day 2025, Evoca released Majesty in Motion: Whales and the Future of Our Seas, a short film directed by Yassa Khan and produced by Evoca Pictures. Combining cinematic storytelling, original music, and documentary footage by Rachel Moore, the campaign celebrated whales as keystone species while underscoring the urgency of ocean protection and climate action.
International Day of the Girl Child 2025
For International Day of the Girl Child 2025, Evoca partnered with Giga (UNICEF–ITU) on Close the Gap: “Offline by Design, Online by Right”, an animated film illustrated by Cécile Cuny. The campaign addressed the global gender digital divide, framing internet access as a fundamental right and a lifeline to education, safety, and opportunity for girls worldwide.
