What we funded

An overview of the grants made
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Our open funds in the UK, and the grants awarded through our Covid Response Fund, are closely aligned with the priorities in our strategy. This section provides an overview of the grants made and our learning within these areas.

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In the emerging crisis, we focussed our efforts on being more responsive: speed was important – getting money out to where it was needed, but so too was our ongoing communication with the organisations and people we fund, to understand the changing impact of the pandemic on the communities they work with. We offered flexibility and simplified our requirements, enabling funding to be repurposed and timelines shifted.

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1. Emergency grant-making

Our main response to the Covid emergency was a quick response fund that offered flexible funding to currently funded organisations and individuals.