Case Studies

Category: Environment & Climate Change and Modern Slavery & Exploitation
Year Awarded: 2025/26

During 2025/26, core grant holders have continued to be offered a subscription to the Directory of Social Change (DSC) Funds Online (an online funding database) to support income generation, and a £3,000 bursary to access capacity building support from DSC. They can drawdown the bursary at any point during the life of their grant. DSC is a charity that works to strengthen not-for-profit organisations through training, publications, and other resources. Across the year, 23 organisations accessed their bursary.

In addition, The Cranfield Trust continued to provide grant holders from the modern slavery and exploitation portfolio with access capacity building support. The Trust supports social welfare charities through a range of services, tailored to their needs. They have a network of skilled volunteer consultants and advisers that help charities succeed by offering mentoring, management consultancy, peer support, advice, training and information. Six organisations received support.

Grant holders were also offered the opportunity to learn from and with each other. In November, the leaders of organisations within the modern slavery and exploitation portfolio came together for the day, getting to know each other and looking at opportunities and challenges facing the sector. In March, we commissioned Climate Outreach to deliver a learning event, ‘Britain Talks Farming: How people think and feel about farming’, for those within the Foundation’s environment portfolio, to encourage further thinking around strategic communications and policy work.