World development

About the programme

In countries where resources and money are scarce, even relatively small amounts of money can make a substantial difference to the happiness and prospects of a considerable number of people.  We hope to give grants under this programme that will make life easier for some of the poorest people in the poorest countries of the world.

Funding Priorities

Our Foundation seeks to aid projects which help the economically disadvantaged in poor countries build the basis of sustainable prosperity. This is likely to be through projects that:

• increase access to education
• increase access to capital and resources where scarcity of these is a barrier to the development of sustainable economic activity
• promote access for the producers of poorer countries to the markets of richer countries
• support initiatives that develop a healthy “civil society”
• projects where the recipients have to make a direct contribution to the project whether time or resource, thereby ensuring a much greater chance of long-term success.

At this stage in the Foundation’s history, we are willing to consider proposals from a wide range of organisations and charities, from national campaigns to one-off proposals.

Disaster relief

It is not generally our intention to provide financial support to campaigns that seek to alleviate the suffering resulting from high-profile natural or man-made disasters.  We may however consider applications for longer-term projects designed to re-establish the viability and prosperity of communities affected by such disasters.