Our giving programme
Overall, the Foundation wishes to be a pioneer in thinking and action in the charitable sector on the use of financial resources to deal with fundamental issues; in other words, it wishes to encourage "the right use of money"
- Trustees began their exploration of this theme by commissioning a collection of essays (follow the link on the right hand side of the page) and making a small number of grants.
- In 2006 they launched a 3 year Financial Inclusion funding programme - with the overall aim of 're-balancing' the market in favour of low-income consumers - as the primary means of supporting work under the Right Use of Money heading. The Foundation’s main giving programme for 2009 - 2012 will be a refocused Financial Inclusion programme - with some new, and very specific, outcomes that Trustees want to see achieved. Follow the links on the right hand side of the screen to find out more about this programme and how we will be delivering it.
The Foundation also carries forward a legacy of giving from the former Friends' Provident Life Office, a mutual life and pensions provider founded by Quakers in 1832. Trustees have determined that funds will be committed in line with the mutual life office's approach to charitable giving, usually in the form of small reactive charitable purpose awards that may be outside our mainstream grants programme stated above. This funding stream is known as the Friends Provident Tradition.
