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Projects we are funding

Innovative ideas and practical projects we are funding, in order to shape a future economy that works for all.

Influence Map

Influence Map – Enabling ambitious sustainable finance policy in the UK and EU

The financial system is failing to direct the necessary capital towards addressing pressing, global environmental and social risks, whilst continuing to fuel destructive practices ...

Amount: £75,000 Awarded on: 12/03/2019
Riding Sunbeams Ltd

Riding Sunbeams – Riding Sunbeams Business Development

Riding Sunbeams is an ambitious public-public partnership approach to allow local cooperatives and social enterprises to directly supply public transport networks with the energy t...

Amount: £100,000 Awarded on: 12/03/2019
Onion Collective CIC

Onion Collective CIC – Is another way possible? Community at the heart of industrial innovation

Exploring if a community-led approach to industrial innovation in a small rural town can overturn the problems of top-down industrial policy

Amount: £217,441 Awarded on: 01/02/2019
The Bevan Foundation

The Bevan Foundation – Building Economic Resilience in the South Wales Valleys

Exploring new solutions for economic resilience in the South Wales Valleys, an area that has not benefitted from classic, neo-liberal growth interventions

Amount: £70,130 Awarded on: 01/01/2019
Community Energy Association (England)

Community Energy Association (England) – Re-galvanising community energy for the 3D transition

The last 3 years have been an extremely unstable time for community energy, with unexpected policy and support changes alongside rapid changes to technologies and the energy system...

Amount: £100,000 Awarded on: 11/12/2018
Institute for Fiscal Studies

Institute for Fiscal Studies – Supporting debate on a fair an sustainable UK tax system

The creation of a suite of easy to understand information on the realities of tax, to allow more informed debate about the future of the system in the UK

Amount: £180,350 Awarded on: 01/11/2018
Women's Budget Group

Women’s Budget Group- Policies for a gender equal economy

Women in the UK still experience structural inequality throughout their lives. Inequalities based on gender intersect with other forms of inequality based on race, disability, inco...

Amount: £169,650.00 Awarded on: 11/09/2018
B Labs UK

B Labs UK-Be the Change powered by B Lab

B ON YOUR WAY aims to inspire businesses to be the full force for good that they have the potential to be.

Amount: £75,000 Awarded on: 11/09/2018
University of Birmingham Centre on household assets and savings management

University of Birmingham (CHASM) – Monitoring financial inclusion

An annual monitoring report on the state of financial inclusion in the UK

Amount: £50,000 Awarded on: 30/08/2018
Repowering London

Repowering Limited – Innovative Community Energy Demonstration Projects

The current energy system requires transformational change if we are to meet the energy demands of our growing population while also achieving binding carbon reduction targets. In ...

Amount: £171,500 Awarded on: 01/08/2018
Carbon Co-op

Greater Manchester energy enpowerment and low carbon retrofit communities: Carbon Co-op

The UK needs to drastically improve the energy efficiency of current housing stock. Communities can make this happen faster and enable greater local economic resilience by closing ...

Amount: £193,000 Awarded on: 01/07/2018
The Equality Trust

Corporate indicators for fair pay: The Equality Trust

Developing a set of indicators on corporate pay to lobby for fairer pay within the UK

Amount: £123,500 Awarded on: 01/07/2018
Bath and West Community Energy

Neighbourhood Storage and Energy Demand Pilot: Bath and West Community Energy

This project seeks to explore the potential role of community action and ownership in new localised electricity markets, exploring the feasibilty of a collective approach to demand...

Amount: £70,700 Awarded on: 01/05/2018
Public Interest Research Centre

Strengthening stories for a new economy: Public Interest Research Centre

Language and metaphors about the economy create frames that need to be understood if we want to effectively demonstrate how to change the system. This project explores what positiv...

Amount: £168,000 Awarded on: 01/04/2018
Scottish Environment LINK

A circular economy for a fairer footprint: Scottish Environment LINK

The circular economy holds the potential for a new way of managing our consumption and waste. In Scotland the government is preparing a bill but this needs support to get it right

Amount: 180,000 Awarded on: 01/04/2018