Funding Partners

Where possible we work in partnership with other like-minded organisations to fund great work. These partnerships allow us to support many exciting and innovative projects that have a far-reaching effect in tackling poverty and social injustice.

These partnerships are mutually beneficial – they can lead to new expertise and knowledge being shared, enable each organisation’s contribution to go further, and make the benefits of the work even greater.

Comic Relief co-funds projects with the Football Foundation which provide over-60s with the opportunity to improve their fitness and wellbeing by taking part in sports and recreational activities.

www.footballfoundation.org.uk

We work with Sir Steve Redgrave to manage his fund. Its uses the power of sport to bring positive change into the lives of disadvantaged children and young people. Currently, it’s operating a school-based indoor rowing scheme to help build young people’s confidence and self-esteem.

www.steveredgravefund.com

As well as working with the Premier League on a whole host of activities, Imagine Your Goals is a new initiative launched by the Premier League, Time to Change and Sport Relief. Its aim is to use the power of football to help tackle the stigma surrounding mental ill-health.

Comic Relief helped to establish UK Refuges Online in 2003 and has been supporting it ever since. It’s a database system which shows vacancies in refuges across the UK so that women and their children can be taken to a place of safety urgently when they are fleeing from domestic violence.

Comic Relief played an instrumental role in setting up the national free-phone 24-hour Domestic Violence Helpline back in 2003 and has been funding it ever since in conjunction with the Home Office. It’s a lifeline for women in the UK who are experiencing domestic abuse and have nowhere to turn to for help.

www.nationaldomesticviolencehelpline.org.uk

Together with the Home Office, Comic Relief has been supporting the NSPCC Child Trafficking Helpline for three years. It provides a way for experienced social workers to give advice to professionals who have identified a trafficked child and don’t know what to do or how to help.

www.nspcc.org.uk/ctail

Comic Relief is co-funding the National Survivor User Network alongside the Tudor Trust to help bring about a stronger, more united and more confident mental health service user movement so that those experiencing mental health problems can get their voices heard and find solutions to the problems they face.

www.nsun.org.uk

Together with the Department of Health, Comic Relief has co-funded the PANICOA initiative which aims to prevent the abuse and neglect of older people and promote their dignity in residential care and throughout the NHS.

www.panicoa.org.uk

Since 2000 Comic Relief has worked in partnership with Robbie Williams to manage his Give It Sum fund, which supports voluntary and community projects across North Staffordshire. Comic Relief and Robbie share a commitment to tackling poverty and disadvantage, and Give It Sum enables local people find solutions to local issues.

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We support Annie Lennox’s SING Campaign and manage the SING fund. The aim is to raise awareness of the effect of HIV on women and children in South Africa, and to increase global action, particularly in the UK, to combat HIV.

www.annielennoxsing.com

The Sainsbury’s Fair Development Fund is a unique £1m fund, run by Comic Relief and financed by Sainsbury’s, which enables more small-scale farmers in the developing world to benefit from fair trade. The Fund supports work internationally, but with a focus on Africa.

More about the Sainsbury’s Fair Development Fund

Our £2m trade partnership with the Hunter Foundation, a philanthropic organisation set up by Sir Tom Hunter and his wife Marion, supports innovative and scalable projects in Rwanda and Malawi which bring about catalytic changes in the lives of small-scale farmers.

www.thehunterfoundation.co.uk

In addition to their great support through their stores, we have a joint-funding partnership with TK Maxx that aims to educate under-privileged children in Uganda. It was launched in 2008.

Working with the Tubney Charitable Trust we have jointly funded projects in Tanzania and Nigeria that aim to improve the education of girls. We began this work in 2006.

www.tubney.org.uk

FRICH is the UK Government’s Department For International Development Challenge Fund to support the development of trade in food from Africa to the UK. A partnership led by Sainsbury’s with Twin, Finlays, Comic Relief and two farmers’ cooperatives (Sopacdi in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mzuzu in Malawi) will develop and bring two new African gourmet coffees into the UK market.

www.frich.co.uk

Together with The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, The Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and The Elton John Aids Foundation, we’re working to help children in Malawi grow up free from the crushing burden of HIV and AIDS.

The Baring Foundation is supporting Comic Relief’s international programme, called The Common Ground Initiative, which invests in small organizations where the majority of the trustees define themselves as being of African heritage. They each play a key role in international development and this initiative helps them to create change amongst communities in Africa and get their voices heard on the international stage.

www.baringfoundation.org.uk

Comic Relief is funding a special initiative in Northern Ghana, together with the A. S. Hornby Educational Trust, which is aiming to help girls and disabled children get a decent education, something that they are so often denied.

Since 2002, we have worked with the Government’s Department for International Development by jointly funding projects that support education in Africa.

DFiD is also co-funding Comic Relief’s Common Ground Initiative which aims to invest in small and African Diaspora organisations based in the UK. The objective is to help some of the poorest and most disadvantaged communities across Africa create real and sustainable change.

www.dfid.gov.uk

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