Friends Provident Foundation is a grant-making charity, run by Trustees. The Foundation operates independently of the Friends Life Group plc, which is now part of the Resolution Group of companies. The Foundation was established as part of the demutualisation of Friends' Provident Life Office in 2001.
It currently 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.
This educational charity, which works with young people in the South East of England to create a culture of saving and responsible financial management, is piloting a model for UK-wide replication.
This East London-based organisation is testing whether the ‘health trainers’ model of behaviour change can be used to increase savings in deprived communities.
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Saving crisis needs urgent action, says think tank on longevity and demographic change
At a lively event yesterday evening, the International Longevity Centre-UK launched a report into long term saving, which concludes that the Government should support the creation of new financial services products to better incentivise saving.
25 Apr 2012
Friends Provident Foundation’s latest social investment
The Foundation joins consortium of Foundations to invest £250,000 in the Ethex social investment platform
13 Feb 2012
