Launched in 2024, the purpose of the Liontrust Foundation is to use the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to drive social mobility and the recovery of nature, with a key focus on promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
Through a rigorous selection process, we work with typically smaller organisations that share our vision.
Alongside targeted funding, we also offer specialist support, employee volunteering and additional fundraising to help ensure we offer high-impact partnerships to the organisations we work alongside.
Our Charity Partners
Our two objectives
Social Mobility and Entrepreneurship
The Foundation provides seed funding, business education and advice through making grants to and working in close partnership with typically smaller, agile charities in the UK that share our vision. The Foundation is focused on supporting technology-led or tech-enabled projects with the scale and scope to maximise social change. The Foundation is committed to supporting access and inclusion for marginalised communities, ensuring under-represented groups have a voice and are heard.
Conservation and Nature Recovery
The Foundation will typically fund smaller NGOs that work on projects in the UK and potentially elsewhere in the world. The Foundation seeks to support approaches to nature recovery and tackling the extinction crisis by engaging communities in the decision-making process and increase opportunities for marginalised groups; has a clear focus on overlooked areas of greatest need and new approaches to nature recovery and habitat restoration; and initiatives that support a greater awareness of the values of nature to society or are integrating nature into areas of business or local decision-making.
“The Foundation seeks partnerships that many others might overlook and through which it is possible to maximise impact. The Trustees are prepared to be bold, seeking innovative approaches through early stage investments, and empowering communities and individuals whose voice can be unheard.”
Governance
The Liontrust Foundation is governed by a Board of Trustees that represent the business and include experts in the specific areas the Foundation is focused on.
Contact
The Liontrust Foundation takes a largely active approach to grant-making and will publish specific funding opportunities. Given limited resources, we remain focused on our target areas and are unable to fund more broadly.
To contact the Foundation please email: foundation@liontrust.co.uk.
The Liontrust Foundation is a UK registered charity (no: 1205713). The Foundation receives its funding in the form of an annual donation from Liontrust Asset Management Plc.