The Evenlode Foundation builds partnerships with charities that make a tangible impact to communities in the short term, with a view to help drive positive systemic change in the long term.
We are building a network of charitable organisations that we have supported and continue to support, donating £274k in 2023. Since we commenced our giving strategy in January 2019, our charitable donations have totalled £1.3m¹ benefitting global charities and local schools.
The donations comprise 5% of Evenlode Investment's annual profit and are structured around three main themes driven by the preferences expressed by the Evenlode Investment team:
¹As at 30 June 2024.
- Combatting climate change.
- Improving biodiversity.
- Tackling inequality.
These themes are clearly topical, and very much on the political and corporate agenda. They are also highly complex, and progress globally will require action from a multitude of organisations. We are open to evolving these themes through time as global needs and challenges change.
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Case study: Spark Microgrants
The vision of Spark Microgrants is a world were everybody lives with dignity and determines their own positive future by enabling communities to design and launch their own social impact projects.
Spark works with local partners to catalyse sustainable collective action and improve livelihoods through a community activation process accompanied by a microgrant.
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The aim of Spark is to help generate impact; they do not impose aid, they enable others to generate impact for themselves. It is an exciting community and process driven project which has gained significant traction and impact. They have worked with 816 communities in 7 countries, and have reached over 550,000 people. Of those there has been a 90% increase in household assets after 2 years, and a 100% increase in families eating at least 2 meals a day.
The inspiring work of Spark Microgrants is well aligned to the Evenlode Foundation purpose statement:
Empowering communities to solve global problems in a sustainable and scalable way.
A selection of our global charitable partners
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Canopy Planet
Protects the world’s forests, species, and climate by working with global companies to transform unsustainable supply chains, catalyse innovative Next Generation Solutions, help advance frontline community rights, and conserve vital global forest ecosystems.
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Client Earth
Uses the power of law to bring about systemic change - informing, implementing and enforcing the law, advising decision-makers on policy, and training legal and judicial professionals - to protect the earth for, and with, its inhabitants.
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Last Mile Health
Creates partnerships with governments to build strong community health systems that extend primary healthcare to the world’s most remote communities where an estimated 2 billion people live beyond the reach of the health system.
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Namati
Advances social and environmental justice for societies where there is limited legal structure and framework, by building and empowering a movement of people who know, use, and shape the law.
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Spark Microgrants
Enables and empowers communities facing poverty to collectively design and drive their own sustainable economic and civic development through action accompanied by a microgrant.
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Village Enterprise
Aims to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through scalable, cost-effective, community-based graduation programmes to provide a platform for entrepreneurship, innovation, and collective action.
