Strategy 2009-12

Homes Matter, Money Matters, Families Matter

In 2008, the Foundation developed a three year strategy for 2009-2012.

The strategy captures the Foundation's mission and values as well as its goals and how it intends to operate as a grant maker. It also contains the Foundation's aims which reflect a commitment to address housing issues, support financial inclusion and families.

The strategy provides the framework from which the Foundation's current funding objectives have been set. The objectives were identified with support from Corporate Citizenship and New Philanthropy Capital which were commissioned by the Foundation to undertake research into housing and financial issues, respectively.

The research reviewed the ways in which other UK funders and government support financial and housing issues, which beneficiaries they focus on and which groups are less well supported. It also considered work and good practice from abroad, plus the Foundation's resources and how to deploy these for maximum benefit.

The beneficiaries identified for support from the Foundation within the objectives - survivors of domestic abuse and disadvantaged older people - were found to be some of the least well funded groups, in terms of addressing their housing and financial capability needs. Addressing these needs was therefore identified as a way in which the Foundation can make a significant contribution with its funds and seek to raise the profile of the issues which the beneficiaries face, in order to attract further support of them in future.