Awards

We seek to be a leading grant-maker and regularly work with independent evaluators to improve our work. We always aim to listen to what charities tell us they need from a funder when developing our grant-making processes.


In an effort to promote good grant-making we like to share with other funders what we do and also like to learn from the practices of others. Another way in which we promote good-grant making is to apply for relevant awards. Over the years we have been very fortunate to have won or have been shortlisted for the following:

The Business Charity Awards 2016 – winner in the Best Corporate Foundation category

The Charity Awards 2014 – winner in the Grant-making and Funding category

The Business Charity Awards 2014 – winner in the Best Corporate Foundation category

The Business Charity Awards 2012 – shortlisted in the Corporate Foundation category

Charities Evaluation Services Awards 2011 – highly commended in the Funder category

The Business Charity Awards 2011 – shortlisted in the Corporate Foundation category

Third Sector Excellence Awards 2010 – shortlisted in the category ‘Innovation by Trusts and Foundations’

Directory of Social Change Awards 2010 – shortlisted in the ‘Great Giving Funders Award’ category

Charity Awards 2006 – winners of the Grant-Making category

Third Sector Excellence Awards 2006 – shortlisted in the Overall Strategy Programme for the New Generation Initiative

International Visual Communication Award 2006 – winner for the evaluation of our 2000-05 grant-making programme (the New Generation Initiative)