FRIENDS PROVIDENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1087053 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£650k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£3.4m

Accounts grants total

£3.4m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

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What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (10 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (6 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (5 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (4 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (4 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (3 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (12 grantees)
Scotland (2 grantees)
China (1 grantee)
Hackney (1 grantee)
Honduras (1 grantee)
Iraq (1 grantee)
Malawi (1 grantee)
Kenya (1 grantee)
Mali (1 grantee)
Colombia (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Economic Change Unit	FY2025	£300k	Core renewal
People’s Economy	FY2025	£240k	Core renewal
Finance Innovation Lab	FY2025	£205k	Cross-party sustainability and finance
Rethinking Economics	FY2025	£205k	Grassroots training and practice
Wellbeing Economy Alliance (Scotland)	FY2025	£198k	Core renewal
Decolonising Economics / Social Change Nest CIC	FY2025	£181k	Movement-building for racial justice
The Black Economists Network Ltd	FY2025	£156k	Core renewal
NEON (New Economy Organisers Network)	FY2025	£150k	Renewal following strategic review
Client Earth	FY2025	£150k	The laws of economics are not what you think they are
Heard Organisation	FY2025	£150k	Exploring how narrative change can shift perceptions of the economy
Impact Investing Institute	FY2025	£150k	Changing the narrative: rethinking capital markets for systemic change
New Economics Foundation	FY2025	£150k	Understanding the appeal of austerity and how to beat it
Poverty Truth Network	FY2025	£150k	Economics for all
Rethinking Economics	FY2025	£150k	Building an influencer community to reclaim the ‘not enough money’ debate
Peers for the Planet	FY2025	£122k	Core extension
Positive Money	FY2025	£120k	Global wealth tax campaigning
New Economics Foundation	FY2025	£116k	Movement Builders network
The Equality Trust	FY2025	£101k	Collaborative systems change: imagining and achieving a diversified and democratic functional future
The Pathways Catalising Fund	FY2025	£100k	Inclusive growth and social equity
War on Want	FY2025	£90k	Core renewal
Stir to Action Ltd	FY2025	£80k	Sector diversification and leadership
Common Wealth / Ownership Futures	FY2025	£70k	Visualising extractive capitalism
CLES (Centre for Local Economic Strategies)	FY2025	£64k	Core extension
Kinfolk Network	FY2025	£8k	10% uplift to support coordination capacity
Students Organising for Sustainability	FY2024	£174k	Project Funding
Spotlight on Corruption	FY2024	£104k	Project Funding
Institute for the Future of Work	FY2024	£97k	Project Funding
Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES)	FY2024	£90k	Core Funding
Kinfolk Network CIC	FY2024	£80k	Project Funding
Trade Justice Movement (TJM)	FY2024	£75k	Project Funding
The Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI)	FY2024	£70k	Project Funding
Operation Noah	FY2024	£55k	Project Funding
Ethex Investment Club	FY2024	£25k	Core Funding
Prime Economics	FY2024	£15k	Small Grants
Planet B	FY2024	£12k	Small Grants
Birbeck University of London	FY2024	£10k	Small Grants
Peers for the Planet (P4P)	FY2024	£10k	Small Grants
People’s Economy (PE)	FY2024	£10k	Small Grants
Prime Economics	FY2024	£10k	Small Grants
Northern Mutual	FY2024	£10k	Small Grants
One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS)	FY2024	£10k	Small Grants
Arkbound Foundation	FY2024	£10k	Small Grants
UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC)	FY2024	£7k	Small Grants
Finance Innovation Lab	FY2023	£250k	Core Funding
New Economy Organisers Network (NEON)	FY2023	£179k	NEON Movement Building
Community Action Groups (CAG) Oxford	FY2023	£120k	Owned by Oxford: Black, Minoritised, Marginalized communities creating a just regenerative economy
Rethinking Economics (REPCE)	FY2023	£100k	Core funding in support of Rethinking Economics work
Stir to Action Ltd	FY2023	£100k	Core funding in support of Stir To Action’s work
Strategy and Communications Group (ECU)	FY2023	£100k	Core funding in support of the ECU’s vision
Tax Justice Ltd	FY2023	£100k	Core funding in support of Tax Justice UK's campaigning work
Wellbeing Economy Alliance Scotland (WEALL Scotland)	FY2023	£100k	Core funding is support of WEALL’s work
FairShare Educational Foundation (ShareAction)	FY2023	£100k	Core funding in support of ShareAction’s work
New Economics Foundation (NEF)	FY2023	£100k	Core funding in support of NEF’s work
Finance Innovation Lab	FY2023	£100k	Core funding in support of Finance Innovation Lab’s work
Kings College London	FY2023	£86k	Citizen’s Panel
Economy	FY2023	£80k	Core funding in support of Economy’s work with communities
Decolonising Economics	FY2023	£80k	Project Grant: Building an economic democracy rooted in racial justice and social equity
The Black Economists Network (TBEN) Ltd	FY2023	£58k	TBEN Engage Project
Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)	FY2023	£25k	New Philanthropy Initiative
Community Alliances Ltd	FY2023	£11k	Developing ideas for decentralised community finance infrastructure
Green Finance Community Hub	FY2023	£10k	Accelerating Green Finance Locally to Enable to a Fair Transition to New Zero
Climate Vanguard	FY2023	£10k	Transforming the UK Youth Climate Movement into a New Economic Actor
Huddlecraft CIC	FY2023	£10k	Money Movers – Women moving money for the planet
Trademark Belfast	FY2023	£10k	Building a Democratic Economy in Northern Ireland
This is Rubbish (TiR) CIC	FY2023	£10k	Plenty to Share
Planet B Productions	FY2023	£10k	Macrodose Podcast

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 3405173 vs reference 3399171 (0.2% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.