Welcome to the Charities Aid Foundation

We help donors to give more impactfully and charities to build their resilience so they can do more of their life-changing work.

Personal giving From one-off donations to long-term giving, or designing your personal philanthropic strategy, we work together to help you realise your giving ambitions. Corporate giving You have the vision for making a difference. So do we. We help you plan how to give based on your goals. Services for charities Helping your charity or social enterprise become more resilient. Insights Discover the latest insights for donors and charitable organisations to help create a greater impact About us We are a leading charity, working at the centre of the giving world. We help donors to give more impactfully and charities to build their resilience so they can do more of their life-changing work. Donate  
 
 
 

Personal giving

From one-off donations to long-term giving, or designing your personal philanthropic strategy, we work together to help you realise your giving ambitions.

DISCOVER OUR PERSONAL GIVING SOLUTIONS

Corporate giving

You have the vision for making a difference. So do we. We help you plan how to give based on your goals.

DISCOVER OUR CORPORATE GIVING SOLUTIONS

Services for charities

Helping your charity or social enterprise become more resilient.

DISCOVER HOW WE SUPPORT CHARITIES

Insights

Discover the latest insights for donors and charitable organisations to help create a greater impact

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About us

We are a leading charity, working at the centre of the giving world. We help donors to give more impactfully and charities to build their resilience so they can do more of their life-changing work.

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CORPORATE GIVING

Corporate grantmaking

Transformative grantmaking support to help maximise impact and manage risk

Create a grant programme

Give more effectively – for maximum impact


However ambitious your giving goals, we’re here to make sure they create real change. Our end-to-end grantmaking support helps you deliver impactful programmes - including complex, multi-year projects - that align with your business strategy and meet social need.  

We help you help charities respond to pressing areas of need, keep vital services running and boost their long-term resilience.

What is corporate grantmaking?


We help you identify the intended impact of your giving and reflect these priorities in the design of your programme. This includes the structural elements such as grant size and frequency, geographical cover, and assessment criteria.

Charities with aligned objectives can then apply through our online platform, and we can support you (and your employees) to assess which ones align best with your programme priorities. We can also deliver the programme end-to-end, including contracting, payment and importantly, the impact reporting.

How our grantmaking service works

1

Design 

From defining objectives to developing frameworks to measure impact, we draw on our wealth of experience, sector knowledge and research to design best in class programmes to fulfil that impact.

2

Deliver

In collaboration with your team, we provide expert support to deliver programmes that effectively meet their ambitions and impact goals.

3

Learn

Focusing on insight and impact, we capture the social impact of donors’ contributions – sharing learnings and reviews in funder reports to strengthen future activity.

We'll help you design, deliver and learn to provide a meaningful and impactful grantmaking programme.

 

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Why choose CAF

Expert grantmakers

Since 1976, we have delivered tailored, transformative grantmaking programmes in the UK and internationally that are effective, bold and that fund for success.

Strategic impact

We achieve maximum impact by working with governments, charities and donors. Our grantmaking is informed by respected research, and our team’s sector knowledge and expertise.

Independence

We offer impartial advice, focused on your ambitions and best practice principles which support the needs of communities. 

A partner for impact

We partner with companies across all sectors, supporting with the design and delivery of their strategic giving programmes.

Safe and Secure 

Our robust charity verification and due diligence processes mean your donations reach their intended causes safely and securely.

Global reach

We partner with membership bodies and other organisations to enable safe and effective cross-border giving and advocate for philanthropy around the world.

Inspiring tomorrow’s scientists through grantmaking

“The structure of our grant scheme empowers employees to address the science education needs in their communities with local partners, all within the programme’s common set of impact areas and reporting metrics.”


Anna Newsum, Community Investment Officer, Johnson Matthey

 

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See some of our other recent grant programmes

Keystone Fund

Helping to build the organisational resilience of small charities that address social equity in the UK.

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Resilience Fund

Supporting communities hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and investing in charities that had rallied to provide that support.

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Ocean Resilience Fund

Working with nature to build a more sustainable future for ocean ecosystems and coastal communities.

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UK SAR Volunteer Training Fund

Supporting volunteer training to improve the safety and quality of UK search and rescue services.

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CAF Coronavirus Emergency Fund

Helping smaller charities in the UK affected by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Talk to us about grantmaking

We'll help you design, deliver and learn to provide a meaningful and impactful grantmaking programme.

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Our team

Lorna Belsey
Lorna Belsey

Senior Manager, Grantmaking Operations

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Sara Main

Programme Manager

Charlotte Burke
Charlotte Burke

Grants Manager

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Ingrid Barnard

Grants Manager

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