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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.

Behavioural Insights Team (BIT)

Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) – Behavioural insights and market design: a wider toolkit to tackle inequality

Markets are powerful but don’t always deliver the best outcomes for society as a whole, nor distribute outcomes equitably. Taking a behavioural insights approach to economic poli...

Amount: £10,000 Awarded on: 01/12/2019
Tax Justice UK

Tax Justice UK – Shaping the public narrative on the need for a fairer tax system

A series of planned campaigning messages for a more progressive tax system, for use by a range of partners, filling an important communications gap at a time when tax is high on th...

Amount: £141,500 Awarded on: 01/11/2019
Ethex

Scaling people powered finance to build resilient communities (core funding)

Amount: £100,000 Awarded on: 10/09/2019
ISRS of UCL

Bringing Realism to the Economics of Climate Change – ISRS of UCL

Economic models dominate humanity’s response to climate change. These models omit the role of energy in production, while in fact, nothing can be produced without energy, and was...

Amount: £197,400 Awarded on: 02/09/2019
Economic Change Unit

The Economic Change Unit – a strategic platform to accelerate economic systems change

Amount: £600,000 Awarded on: 01/09/2019
Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security - University College London

ISRS of UCL – Bringing Realism to the Economics of Climate Change

Economic models dominate humanity’s response to climate change but omit the role of energy: the primary cause of climate damage. Complex dynamic models are needed to capture thes...

Amount: £197,400 Awarded on: 11/06/2019
Medact

Medact – Advocating for a Health-Centred Economic and Political System

The UK is one of the most unequal countries in Europe. This is reflected in the lived experience of individuals and marginalised communities. Healthcare workers are some of the fir...

Amount: £136,850 Awarded on: 11/06/2019
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
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
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
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