Investing in A Fairer Future
RefuAid
To secure A Fairer Future, we offer social investment to organisations who are working to address systemic injustice and inequity.
Across our funding, we commit to investing into organisations led by communities experiencing racial inequity, as well as building community wealth. We are particularly interested in supporting work that also contributes to our other priorities in Creative, Confident Communities and Our Natural World.

Children and young people's rights
We want to support:
- The expansion of impact-focused models that address market failure in early years education and children’s care.
- Mission-locked organisations who are improving outcomes for young people at risk of school exclusion or in contact with the care or youth justice system, along with earlier support for disabled young people and those with special educational needs.
- The provision of high-quality, person-centred, housing for children and young people or leaving care, and those in contact with or leaving the youth justice system.

Gender justice, Migrant justice and Racial justice
We want to support:
- The provision of high-quality, safe, affordable housing to reduce gender-based violence, improve outcomes for migrants, or those in contact with or leaving the youth justice system.
- Equity for mission-locked ventures and enterprises led by and supporting people with experience of racial inequity; women; transgender and non-binary people; and migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

Arts and creativity making change
We want to support:
- The transfer of theatre productions from the (under-resourced) subsidised arts sector to the commercial sector.
We also support arts, culture and heritage organisations through the Arts and Culture Impact Fund.
Stories
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RefuAid's Equal Access Loan Scheme
RefuAid provides people who have fled their homes with tailored support to build independent and dignified lives in the UK.
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Arts & Culture Impact Fund
Managed by Nesta, the Arts & Culture Impact Fund (and its predecessor, the Arts Impact Fund), brings together public, private and charitable funding to demonstrate the potential and impact of social investment in the arts.
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Fair4All Finance
Fair4All Finance supports the financial wellbeing of people in vulnerable circumstances by increasing access to fair, affordable and appropriate financial products and services.
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Shift Design
Shift is a research and innovation charity. Working alongside Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, CAF Venturesome and UnLtd, Shift sought to explore the role of alternative forms of social investment as a way of enabling greater social impact.
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A Fairer Future
We want to contribute to a just and anti-racist society, where those who need it most have their rights protected, the opportunity to speak and be heard, and the freedom to express their creativity.
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Our approach to Social Investment
Social investment is one of the tools we use, alongside grants and our own actions, to achieve our impact goals.
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Portfolio breakdown
See a breakdown of our social investment portfolio by aim and product type.
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