Who funds FairPensions?
FairPensions is a charity registered in the UK (charity number: 1117244) and receives the majority of its funding from charitable trusts. The trusts detailed below are all current funders. FairPensions also receives money from various supporter organisations, including NGOs and Trade Unions. For a full list of supporter organisations, please click here.
The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK. They make grants to organisations which aim to improve the quality of life for people and communities in the UK, both now and in the future.
The Foundation "likes to consider work which others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, appears too risky, requires core funding, or needs a more unusual form of financial help such as a loan. We also take initiatives ourselves where new thinking is required or where we believe there are important unexplored opportunities."
The Foundation commits approximately 30 million pounds annually towards a wide range of work. Their primary interests are in the UK's cultural life, education, the natural environment and enabling people who are disadvantaged to participate more fully in society.
http://www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk/index.html
The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a (philanthropic grant-giving) charitable foundation based in Britain. It was founded in 1995 by Sigrid Rausing. It takes as its guiding framework the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The funding categories are all human rights orientated and aim to form a coherent framework for the work of the Trust.
The Trust's mission is to support and strengthen effective advocates, organisations and movements who defend human rights, equality and environmental justice.
http://www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org/
The City Bridge Trust aims to address disadvantage by supporting charitable activity across Greater London through quality grant-making and related activities with clearly defined prioriti
The Trust's values are at the heart of their work, and include:
- Fairness
- Inclusion
- 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.
http://www.bridgehousegrants.org.uk/citybridgetrust/
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. Anyone can attend a funding event.
http://www.thefundingnetwork.org.uk/
The Scurrah Wainwright Charity takes its name from Henry Scurrah Wainwright OBE (1877-1968) who was a Leeds chartered accountant and social reformer. He was also instrumental in founding and building up the Leeds medical company, Chas F Thackray Ltd, whose sale in 1990 led to the founding of the Charity. The Charity is run by seven trustees, all members of the Wainwright family.
The SWC funds projects in England, primarily in Yorkshire and the North of England (not Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland), as well as Zimbabwe and South Africa. It does not fund work in any other part of the world. It looks for innovative work in the field of social reform, with a preference for 'root-cause' rather than palliative projects. It favours causes that are less mainstream, and less likely to be funded by other charities.
http://www.wainwrighttrusts.org.uk/swc.html
The Network for Social Change is a group of individuals committed to funding organisations and projects which promote progressive social and ecological change. Currently it has some 100 members of all ages, mostly UK-based. They are each able to commit themselves individually to giving away at least 3,000 GBP a year through the Network. The promotion of social justice and sustainability is central to thier aims.
The Network focuses on social change projects in the arts, human rights, economic justice, environmental, health and peace sectors, and looksfor leverage - projects where comparatively small sums of money can have the greatest effect.