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The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK, which commits around £30 million annually towards projects that improve the quality of life for people and communities in the UK. The Foundation prioritises projects that promote the UK's cultural life, education, the natural environment and that enable people who are disadvantaged to participate more fully in society.
Guided by a belief in the need to support and maintain a free, stable and socially cohesive society, the Foundation likes to support organisations that have the ideas and ability to achieve change for the better, and are engaged in projects which might otherwise be considered difficult to fund. This could be because they break new ground, appear too risky or require core funding.
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The Sigrid Rausing Trust
Founded by Sigrid Rausing in 1995 to promote international human rights and with an annual grant-giving budget of £20million in 2009, it operates four major grant programmes: Civil and Political Rights, Women’s Rights, Minority Rights, and Social and Environmental Justice. The Trust is guided by key principles including a recognition of the value of core funding and effective leadership, as well as the benefits of establishing long-term relationships with grantees.
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The City Bridge Trust
The City Bridge Trust aims to address disadvantage by supporting charitable activity across Greater London through quality grant-making and related activities that embrace The Trust’s key values of Fairness, Inclusion and Independence.
The Trust aims to add value to their grant-making through a number of proactive strategic initiatives, working collaboratively with London's third sector to identify new areas of need and new solutions.
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The Funding Network
The Funding Network brings people together to:
- Act as a 'marketplace' to which individuals can bring projects which work towards a fairer, healthier, and more sustainable world.
- Provide a mutually respectful setting where those who might like to join with others in funding such projects get to meet and hear those doing the work.
- Promote a paradigm of social change giving: that those who have much can usefully share their wealth in creative and proactive ways, and that the process of giving can be enriching to the giver as well as to the receiver.
The Funding Network is a loose affiliation of individuals, from a variety of backgrounds, but with a common purpose, to join with others in using our material prosperity to fund social change causes. Members may be individuals giving their own personal funds or trustees of charitable trusts who have the discretionary power to make commitments at a Funding Event.
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The Friends Provident Foundation
The Friends Provident Foundation is an independent grant-making charity which focuses on financial exclusion, in addition to exploring the role of money and financial systems as a force for social good. The Foundation works to "create the conditions throughout the UK for improved access to appropriate financial services for those who are currently excluded, particularly those on low incomes or otherwise vulnerable to market failure".
The Friends Provident Foundation aims to:
- encourage thinking that deals with the cause of the problem;
- transform the use of financial systems so that they offer social as well as economic benefits, alleviating social disharmony and inequality; and
- pioneer new ways of thinking about how money is used to solve social problems.
Established as part of the 2001 demutualisation of Friends' Provident Life Office, a mutual life and pensions provider founded by Quakers in 1832, the Foundation aims to continue a tradition of giving and use their resources to "encourage the right use of money".
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The Network for Social Change
The Network for Social Change is a group of individuals committed to funding organisations and projects which promote progressive social and ecological change. Social justice and sustainability are central to their aims. With annual grant-making of around £1million, the Network concentrates on social change projects in the arts, human rights, economic justice, environmental, health and peace sectors. They seek out leverage: projects where comparatively small sums of money can have the greatest effect, and are often prepared to fund organisations that find it difficult to get funding elsewhere.
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The Nuffield Foundation
The Nuffield Foundation was established in 1943 by William Morris (Lord Nuffield). Lord Nuffield wanted his Foundation to 'advance social well being', particularly through research and practical experiment. The Foundation aims to achieve this by supporting work which will bring about improvements in society, and which is founded on careful reflection and informed by objective and reliable evidence.
Most of the Foundation's income is spent on grants some of which are for research and others support practical innovation or development, often in voluntary sector organisations. In both cases the preference is for work that has wide significance, beyond the local or routine. The Foundation looks to support projects that are imaginative and innovative, take a thoughtful and rigorous approach to problems, and have the potential to influence policy or practice.
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The Josesph Rowntree Charitable Trust
JRCT seeks to engage in philanthropy which changes the existing power imbalances in society to effect real change, with a belief in creating a dialogue across difference and supporting change towards a better world. JRCT's interest is in removing problems, not in making them easier to live with. JRCT Trustees are Quakers, and decision-making and practice are based on Quaker values.
JRCT's current funding programmes cover areas including Peace, Racial Justice, Power and Responsibility, Quaker Concerns, Ireland and Northern Ireland, and South Africa.
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