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Welcome
About Us
The Nationwide Foundation is a registered charity (no 1065552) which makes donations to charitable organisations and is funded principally from contributions from Nationwide Building Society. It is a separate legal entity from the Society and is run by a Board of Trustees.
The Foundation has a membership consisting of those who became Society members on or after 2 November 1997. These members agree to assign to the Foundation, any potential windfall benefit to which they may be entitled, in the event of the Society undergoing conversion or takeover. Some longer standing Society members have chosen to make this assignment as well.
The Nationwide Foundation works towards a just and caring society by enabling people to take part in building better futures in their communities.
The Foundation has a history of offering support to those most in need in the UK, with a focus on targeting social exclusion. Grants totalling over £26m have been made to such causes since 1997, benefiting thousands. This has included small grants, and large grants under the New Generation Initiative and the Investor Programme.
The Trustees of the Foundation are committed to ensuring that the charity's funds are deployed for maximum benefit and have undertaken a detailed strategic review, incorporating its learning to date. The resulting grants programmes are designed to help people in need and importantly, to help break the drivers of social exclusion by offering support to those who are on its margins.
The Foundation is looking forward to making an impact in the fields it has chosen to support and as a conscientious funder will continue to share its learning for the greater benefit of the voluntary sector and those in need.
Our Values
We have a strong value base which governs all our work from strategic planning and policy development to governance and grant administration, against which we measure ourselves:
Effectiveness - A belief in the importance of making as big a difference as we can through our work by operating efficiently and professionally, and of establishing robust measures to gauge our impact.
Innovation - A willingness to think big, to take risks and to support innovative and cutting edge initiatives.
Collaboration - A commitment to working in partnership with others to add value to the work we do, and to encourage the sharing of information and learning amongst the organisations we fund.
Accessibility - A desire to ensure that our methods of working and grant-making procedures are clear and accessible to organisations of differing size and orientation throughout the UK.
Accountability - A commitment to working in an open and transparent way, and to building a relationship of trust and mutual respect with our stakeholders.
