What we fund
We build, run and fund initiatives with the potential to change society for the better. We also make grants to people and organisations doing innovative work across a range of causes.
Our key initiatives and some of the impact we have achieved are shown below.
Our initiatives
The Tenacious Awards supports campaigners and recognises the contribution of campaigning for the public good. It provides money and mentoring to selected campaigners to achieve their goals.
The Sit-Up Awards encourages theatre makers to amplify and extend the reach of their work before, during, and after their productions.
Research for Change helps frontline charities be more effective, by providing funding to validate methods and collaborate with others.
Link for Change is a network of public interest lawyers, campaigners and investigative journalists working to unleash social change.
Law for Change backs legal claims with a clear social benefit. We co-founded this initiative in 2023. The fund supports under-represented groups who stand to benefit from legal actions, and the precedents they set.
Our impact
Legal cases
Through Law for Change our funding has resulted in significant wins including holding the police to account, changing the government’s policy on food waste and delaying the extraditions to Rwanda of asylum seekers.
The Dirty List
We are the primary funder to The Burma Campaign of their initiative The Dirty List. This names international companies doing business with the military in Myanmar, as well as those companies involved in projects where there are human rights violations or environmental destruction.
Human Sacrifice Bill
Our support to Children on the Edge helped enable the passing of a new law in 2021 to end human sacrifice in Uganda.
Climate change
We provide the core funding to SOS UK for Teach the Parent, a project encouraging young people to work with their parents to make pledges about the climate emergency.
Human Trafficking
We funded SOHTIS to develop methods and training to successfully identify people who have been trafficked in Scotland.
Deaths in custody in UK Prisons
We helped hold the prison service to account for deaths in custody through our support of Woodhill, a play exploring suicide in prison. Woodhill was the 2023 winner of Sit-Up Awards.