We are proud to have backed some of the most determined and impactful individuals and organisations. Here are key highlights from our work and grantmaking.

Campaigning

• Annual award for campaigners - our programme Tenacious Campaign Awards backs campaigners with true tenacity. Notable successes include Zelda Perkins (Can’t Buy My Silence), Matt Staniek (Save Windermere), and Esther Ghey (Phone Free Education).

• Holding corporates to account - grants to partners seeking to hold corporates to account including ShareAction, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), Action on Gambling, and Everyday Plastics.

• Preventing avoidable deaths - core funder of The Preventable Deaths Tracker and campaign to learn lessons and save lives.

• Addressing online harms - funding has support Everyone’s Invited, 5Rights, Tactical Tech.

• Supporting high impact campaigns including:

  • Foodrise - addressing food industry harms and the sugar lobby.

  • Just Treatment - creating a fairer health system - putting patients before profits.

  • Smartphone Free Childhood - first and ongoing funder of this successful movement against online harms.

• Supporting research and creative campaigning - various grants to campaign groups using innovative tactics, and research grants for Social Change Lab.

Law

• Public interest litigation - co-founded Law for Change, helping enable more than 100 legal cases in the public interest. Notable successes include:

  • Support for Foxglove Legal to stop the government forcing through destructive data centres.

  • Support for Sarah Finch representing Weald Action Group in the landmark Supreme Court case R (Finch) v Surrey County Council.

• Legal reform and access to justice - funding has supported Open Justice for All, Environmental Law Foundation, The Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Life.

• Evidence gathering for legal action - funding has supported groups to demonstrate health harms including Corby Childhood Cancer, Bentham residents affected by forever chemical contamination, and other environmental campaigners conducting air and soil testing.

Journalism

• Annual award for journalists - our programme Tenacious Journalists Awards supports journalists to produce new and important investigative reporting.

• Funding independent journalism- support to Bylines Network, Public Interest News Foundation (PINF), Liberty Investigates, and Democracy for Sale.

• Preventing misinformation - core grant to Full Fact.

Arts for Change

• Sit-Up Awards - post show audience engagement at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

• The Royal Scottish Academy- annual open exhibition prize for social change.

• Punch and Common Ground Justice Project- Olivier Award winning play advocating for restorative justice.

• Edinburgh International Book Festival- post show support and workshops to promote audience engagement.

Scotland

• Inspiring Scotland (IS) - incubating and scaling of new ideas in Scotland, coordinating action on online harms, and backing innovative campaign initiatives like Ideas for Change. Select partners funded through our partnership with IS:

  • Children First - public health campaign for young people’s wellbeing.

  • Choose Play (East Lothian Play Association) – access to creative and open-ended play.

Other - initiatives challenging injustice and innovative ideas

• Burma Campaign UK- Dirty List Campaign calling out companies trading with the military dictatorship in Myammar.

• Children on the Edge - support towards legislative change in Uganda to stop human sacrifice.

• Genocide Watch - core funder of work to expose genocide globally.

• Survivors of Human Trafficking in Scotland - core funding for programmes against trafficking.

• Afghan Education Action - support for their innovative online education provision for women and girls.

Other - medical research related to spinal injury

• SCI ventures- core support to their work accelerating Restorative Treatments for Spinal Cord Injury.

• Live UTI Free - research funding.