Projects we are funding

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

King’s College London: Citizens’ Economic Council on the Cost of Living

Awarded: £85,802 Commenced on: 01/09/2022

IPPR: Fair Tax Now

Awarded: £110,000 Commenced on: 01/08/2022

ShareAction – Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting

Only 13 FTSE 100 companies publish their ethnicity pay gap (EPG) – a critical step in measuring performance and whilst the moral case for addressing ethnicity pay gaps is clear, ...

Awarded: £122,000 Commenced on: 04/04/2022

Balanced Economy Project-Tackling Monopoly Power

Monopolisation is a huge barrier to a fair and sustainable economy. Competition policy has been weakened to the point that it tolerates and even encourages rapid concentration of e...

Awarded: £80,000 Commenced on: 13/03/2022

Ethical Consumer Research Association – Fossil-free investment Funds rating system

More than four hundred UK retail funds market themselves as ‘sustainable’, ‘responsible’ and ‘environmental’ or reference ‘climate change’ in their branding. But th...

Awarded: £25,500 Commenced on: 08/03/2022

Jubilee Scotland – Scotland against PPPs

A campaign to end the use of public-private partnerships in Scotland

Awarded: £35,000 Commenced on: 01/01/2022

Medact – An Economy centered on Health and Wellbeing

The economy, housing and health are interrelated. From a public health perspective, an economic intervention on housing must not only address the poor conditions of housing but als...

Awarded: £155,756 Commenced on: 01/11/2021

Power for People – The Community Energy Revolution: the campaign for the Local Electricity Bill (2)

You want to buy locally baked bread? You can. You want to buy locally brewed beer? You can. You want to buy locally generated renewable energy? You can’t.

Awarded: 30,000 Commenced on: 01/10/2021

Economy – core funding

Core support for increasing public education on economics, to make it a topic that we can all understand

Awarded: £190,000 Commenced on: 01/10/2021

Centre for London – Community wealth and asset approaches for London

Exploring how community wealth and local asset approaches can work in a city like London

Awarded: £55, 797 Commenced on: 26/08/2021

The Financial Inclusion Centre – The devil is in the policy detail

In 2020 Friends Provident Foundation supported the Financial Inclusion Centre to publish research into sustainable socially responsible and impact (SRI) finance regulation in the U...

Awarded: 16,000 Commenced on: 01/07/2021

Arkbound Foundation – COP26 systems change not climate collapse

A contribution towards the costs of creating a book to highlight marginalised voices in the climate debate and showcase alternative economic strategies to cope with the climate cri...

Awarded: £3,500 Commenced on: 01/07/2021

Decolonising Economics – Developing BPOC leadership in the solidarity economy

Our economic and financial system works through extraction from minoritised communities, and until recently has gone relatively unquestioned by mainstream economics. A just transit...

Awarded: £15,000 Commenced on: 15/06/2021