How we’re funded

For over 200 years, Catch22 has designed and delivered services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities.

Catch22 is a social business: a not-for-profit business with a social mission. Since 1788, with the formation of The Philanthropic Society, they have designed and delivered services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities.

Their vision for a strong society is one where everyone has the same three things to thrive: a purpose, a good place to live, and good people around them. All of their services help people to achieve at least one, if not all three, of these things.

We Are Capacity CIC is Capacity’s staff owned Community Interest Company limited by guarantee.

Their objective is to create positive impact for local people by supporting models that are designed and driven by the people who use them. Established in 2021, We Are Capacity CIC supports the improved health and wellbeing of disadvantaged communities (both geographical and communities of need) by engaging, supporting and empowering local people and community organisations, and building effective partnerships across all sectors in and around the North West of England and North Wales.

Burlington Retrofit CIC is working to develop a model to support communities with residential retrofitting across the UK.

Better Society Capital is the UK’s leading social impact-led investor, their mission is to grow the amount of money invested in tackling social issues and inequalities in the UK.

They do this by investing and enabling others to invest for impact too. Since 2012, they have helped build a market that has directed more than £9 billion into social purpose organisations tackling issues from homelessness and mental health to childhood obesity and fuel poverty, a ten-fold increase in ten years.

Working with expert partners, they seek to understand people’s needs first. Then, using their knowledge and capital, they collaborate and invest with fund managers who also want to create a better, sustainable future.

Their role is to bring the most relevant experts from our network to the table, generating ideas and connecting capital to where it’s most needed.

Postcode Innovation Trust was established to support charities working in the following areas:

• The advancement of health
• The advancement of environmental protection, improvement and sustainability
• The prevention or relief of poverty
• The advancement of education
• The advancement of citizenship or community development
• The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
• The advancement of public participation in sport
• The promotion of equality and diversity
• The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill -health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.

Postcode Innovation Trust operates its own society lottery and receives all of its funding from the players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

Social connections and community activities are at the heart of creating healthier, happier lives and a flourishing society. That’s why The National Lottery Community Fund supports amazing community-led projects.

NLCF are supporting communities to tackle the challenges they face, strengthening their grassroots funding. They’ve set four community-led missions where they’ll focus funding, learning and efforts:

• Communities are healthier
• Communities come together
• Communities help children and young people to thrive
• Communities are environmentally sustainable

Thanks to National Lottery players, they plan to distribute at least £4 billion of funding by 2030. Supporting projects that will create resilient communities that are more inclusive and environmentally sustainable. Projects that will strengthen society and improve lives across the UK.

Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent, endowed charitable foundation. They have been focusing on social justice and equality issues for more than 100 years, celebrating a centenary in 2020. Their endowment produces an income which they use to fund their work and that of their partners.

The Connect Fund was a £6.3 million fund that the Barrow Cadbury Trust managed in partnership with Access – the Foundation for Social Investment between 2017-2024. It was set up to strengthen the social investment market to better meet the needs of charities and social enterprises in England.