We’re proud to support a range of organisations doing incredible work combating the systems and mechanisms that drive poverty across the UK. Below are just a few of those we invest in 🔽
- Since 2022, we've been supporting BelleVie | B Corp™, a home care provider with a self-managing team approach. The organisation is an accredited Living Wage Employer, paying colleagues for full shifts, including time spent on travel, admin and gaps between visits.
This approach ensures that care workers are not only compensated fairly but also experience improved job satisfaction and wellbeing.
- In 2017, we completed a £500,000 investment in Resonance Limited who provide an effective solution to homelessness.
❗ Temporary accommodation is not the answer - and this fund's 229 homes have provided quality homes to 580 tenants, including just over 300 children in Bristol, Oxford and Milton Keynes.
Housing partners, such as current partners Developing Housing and Independence, and St Mungo’s, lease the homes from the fund on a long-term and affordable basis, manage the properties, and support the tenants whilst helping them to plan a move into more permanent rented accommodation.
- In 2016 JRF invested 3 million pounds in Fair By Design which sets out to tackle the ‘poverty premium’ – the (on average) £490 more each year paid by poorer people for the same goods and services as people who are better off.
Some low-income households can end up paying as much as £2,250 per year extra when high-cost credit is factored in.
The fund has made investments in 25 ventures which are developing solutions to the poverty premium. Across all of its venture investments, Fair By Design helped reduce the poverty premium by around £283 million for 2.6 million people in the UK (averaging £99 per person) by the end of 2023.
🌐 Our new social investment page is now live! To find out more about our social investments and more of the organisations we support find the link in comments 👇