We help donors to give more impactfully and charities to build their resilience so they can do more of their life-changing work.
From one-off donations to long-term giving, or designing your personal philanthropic strategy, we work together to help you realise your giving ambitions.
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You have the vision for making a difference. So do we. We help you plan how to give based on your goals.
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Helping your charity or social enterprise become more resilient.
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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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Give more effectively with support from our dedicated Impact Accelerator team
We all have causes that are important to us. But what if you could give more effectively, driving positive change through your giving? Our Impact Accelerator team – CAF's centre of excellence for impact – can help you do just that.
We align your goals with the needs of communities and guide you in giving for maximum impact, whilst strengthening the resilience of the organisations you support.
Working closely with you and your family, we'll support you in defining the impact you hope to create and develop a strategy to achieve it. This may involve researching specific causes, identifying relevant charities or designing an impact framework to measure the impact of your giving.
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Help provide affordable, flexible, repayable finance for social purpose organisations to ease cashflow, develop new services or buy assets. We recycle your philanthropic capital, meaning one pot of money can benefit many organisations.
We’ll work with you to design a grant programme that makes a measurable difference to the communities you support, using fair, accessible and transparent grantmaking practices.
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Our three-step approach will help turn your goals into reality, whether you’re starting out or would like to rethink your existing giving strategy.
Contact usFrom helping to define your values and objectives to developing frameworks to measure impact, we draw on our wealth of experience, sector knowledge and research to design best-in-class strategies to fulfil that impact.
In collaboration with you, we provide expert support to deliver programmes that effectively meet your ambitions and impact goals.
Focusing on insight and impact, we capture the social impact of your giving, sharing learnings and reviews in funder reports to strengthen future activity.
We’ve provided social investment since 2002, making us one of the first and most active social investment funds in the UK.
Since 1976, we have delivered tailored, transformative grantmaking programmes in the UK and internationally that are effective, bold and that fund for success.
We’ve led the way in developing exciting and innovative approaches to giving for the best part of a century.
We distribute a huge amount of money each year on behalf of organisations and individuals who support non-profits around the globe.
We belong to many membership bodies, so we can access expertise on local causes anywhere in the world.
How do you know your donations will end up in the right hands? Our verification service makes sure of it.
Social Investment Principal
One CAF client, a family foundation, was drawn to MSI Reproductive Choice’s work, and the impact its programmes are having on the lives of the world’s poorest and most marginalised women and girls.
Using their Charitable Trust, Mark and Julie Mills ensure a precious habitat is protected from development, allowing the vulnerable and endangered species to thrive.
One CAF client is funding the vital work of local wildlife charities working to restore nature and protect wildlife.