The Fore is committed to promoting justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of our work.
We believe that promoting a culture of anti-racism, removing barriers and improving accessibility, supporting smaller charities and continuously tracking our progress are vital components of our efforts to achieve a fair, healthy, just and sustainable society.
What We Do
We are committed to ensuring all individuals and communities have equal opportunities and access to funding and resources:
- We do extensive outreach to those who most need our support and will use our funding most effectively.
- We actively encourage applications from charities working with underserved communities, and those who have struggled to access funding in the past.
- We focus on identifying high potential, often overlooked, small charities, regardless of the experience or confidence of their leaders.
- We are committed to supporting smaller charities with an annual turnover of under £500,000. We nurture micro charities (those with an annual turnover of under £100,000), who make up 3.6% of the sector’s total income.
- We provide captions on all new video content.
We focus on an accessible and inclusive assessment process:
- We host an online Q&A session before each funding round. Previous “Question Time with The Fore” recordings can be found on our YouTube channel.
- We offer a week-long window for registration, avoiding a first come, first served approach.
- Applications can be submitted in alternative formats on request (e.g. video and audio).
- We offer feedback to all applicants, delivered in writing or verbally, depending on how far an application progresses, to help strengthen future applications, both to us and other funders.
What We’re Going To Do
Our commitment to an accessible assessment process means we aim to provide:
- Downloadable transcripts and audio descriptions of our application process.
- Providing alt text on all imagery.
We welcome feedback and reasonable suggestions on how we can improve the accessibility of our content.
Tracking our progress
Leadership data from 2023/24 funding rounds:
We collect DEI data from our applicant and portfolio charities using the 360Giving Data Standard. We are committed to transparency, so we will publish our anonymised data on 360Giving once this functionality becomes available.
Our commitments are reflected in our outcomes, where we outperform the sector average by funding a higher percentage of charities with diverse leadership. We will continue to monitor this to ensure we stay focused on our commitments.