What we do

Our main focus is tackling illicit finance and the UK’s dirty money problem. We make grants and convene stakeholders to help them achieve more together.

We are currently spending out our resources and expect to close the Trust in about 2030.

Focus Areas

1. Illicit finance and the UK’s dirty money problem

We work with civil society and other allies to tackle the UK’s £100bn+ dirty money problem, and develop a strong civil society field working on the issue.

To achieve this, we carry our four main activities:

a) Make aligned grants to organisations that complement each other’s work.
b) Convene civil society to build alliances and shared analysis.
c) Engage donors to build understanding and bring funds into the field.
d) Convene across sectors to accelerate progress on critical issues.

Read more about this area of work and see news items about recent activities.

2. High potential UK non-profit organisations (programme closed)

In 2024, we awarded our final eight grants to support UK civil society leaders to build sustainable and successful non-profit organisations that contribute to global justice and equality, with an impact in low income countries. We are closed to new applications in this area.

See final grants here.

Our approach

We are committed to achieving impact. So we take an engaged approach as a donor. We work to understand the issues and organisations we support and identify how we can best contribute to them.

We recognise that social change takes time and depends on collaboration across many initiatives. We encourage strategic collaboration among organisations and convene stakeholders, where this can add value.

We have joined IVAR’s Flexible Funders campaign, with its eight commitments for open and trusting grant-making. We are a signatory to the Funder Commitment on Climate Change.