Inspiring stories
Read about some of the inspiring projects the Foundation is working with
Tackling poverty
We fund organisations which move people out of poverty, develop longer-term sustainable solutions and explore the impact of poverty to inform local decision making.
Somewhere to call home
Investing in organisations which enable people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness to find a new home.
Community anchors
Community anchor organisations play a vital, practical role in reducing the impact of poverty on local neighbourhoods, working with a broad cross section of the community to make change happen.
Community leaders and Change makers
We provide funding, mentoring and leadership development to people who have a vision for social change in their local community.
Racial inequity
We support specialist community anchor organisations run by and for people experiencing racial inequity.
Purposeful people
Our work is supercharged by Virgin Money Colleagues who donate significant time helping our funded charities, community groups and change makers.
Open data
The Virgin Money Foundation is committed to being transparent and we work with 360Giving to publish information about our grants. We believe that with better information, grantmakers can make more effective decisions. 360Giving provides support for them to publish data openly, understand that data and use it to create online tools to make grantmaking more beneficial. For more information, visit http://www.threesixtygiving.org Link opens in a new window
To view information on our grants, in the 360Giving data standard.
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We are proud to be a Living Wage Funder, committed to tackling low pay by encouraging and enabling the organisations we support to pay the real Living Wage.