What we do

We support civil society leaders to build a fairer world, with opportunity for all. We focus on improving financial integrity and tackling the UK’s dirty money problem. We make grants, and support and convene organisations to help them achieve more together.

We are currently spending out all our resources and expect to close the Trust in about 2030. This is driving a more focused approach in our work. We will continue our approach as an engaged and strategic funder.

Focus Areas

1. Strengthening integrity in the UK’s international financial systems

We work with civil society leaders and other allies to (a) position the UK as a leading driver of international financial integrity, and no longer a global centre for dirty money; and (b) develop a sustainable and successful field of civil society organisations working on this issue.

Read more about this area of our work.

2. Strengthening 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 update & grants here.

Our approach

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 often provide multi-year funding, which is as unrestricted as possible.

We recognise that social change takes time and depends on collaboration across many initiatives. We encourage strategic collaboration among organisations and convene events, where they 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. We publish our grants data to the 360Giving standard.