Philanthropy is an act of caring, a recognition that some of the resources that you have can be used to make the world a better place.
It has alleviated poverty, fostered art and culture, strengthened communities and improved our environment.
When most effective, the philanthropist brings skills, experience and networks as well as money.
This is the oxygen that nurtures the sort of society we want to live in and planet we want to live on.
We are a collective impact movement to encourage greater and better giving by wealthy people. We provide unbiased information and peer to peer learning in safe communities for everyone to choose their philanthropic journey.
Working with partners across the sector we aim to build a philanthropy support sector which encourages more and better giving.
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High-Net-Worth Philanthropy: Trends in giving during 2020 What can we learn from trends in giving among the wealthy last year? Last June, Beacon launched a quarterly survey of 300-500 high-net-worth individuals, to understand patterns of giving by the wealthy on a continuous basis. It asks just two questions – how much they gave to […]
UK Donor Advised Fund Assets Reach £1.7 billion 2019, the year before Covid-19, may seem like a distant memory. Yet, even before the crisis, UK philanthropy was on the march. In the closing hours of 2020, National Philanthropic Trust UK (NPT UK) published its fifth annual UK Donor Advised Fund Report, showing charitable assets […]
Philanthropy Sector celebrated in New Year’s Honours List Beacon looks at the ways in which individuals in the Philanthropy Sector have received commendation from the Queen for their services. This article demonstrates the vital role that philanthropy is playing in the civil society response to COVID. Ringing in the start of 2021, the Queen’s […]
2020 In Review: What can we learn from the philanthropy sector’s COVID response? “2020 has been the most important year for philanthropy in recent times.” – Matthew Bowcock Throughout 2020, hundreds of millions of pounds in grants have been distributed to non-profit organisations throughout the UK. The purpose, to support those that found themselves […]
Year in review: An interview with Matthew Bowcock, co-founder @ Beacon Collaborative. Matthew Bowcock and his wife Helen established the Hazelhurst Trust in 2000 to provide grants and other forms of social finance to local charities and social enterprises. They started out by focusing on projects in and around Surrey, where they live, but […]
Working with Big Society Capital, Schroders has launched a listed Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust to bring impact investment to ordinary investors. The fund uses a diversified Social Impact Investment strategy to deliver a positive social outcome with a financial return. Its principal investments will be in high impact housing, debt for social enterprises and public/private social outcomes contracts.
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