Our aim is to improve the lives of people and their communities, across the UK. We look to do this by encouraging and developing leadership and promoting enterprise and innovation.
The Rank Foundation supports a number of small and major programmes across the UK. In the majority of cases, these programmes are funded through our proactive, research driven activities.
Engaged Philanthropy
The Rank Foundation operates a model of engaged philanthropy, combining intellectual, social and financial capital in order to maximise impact, whilst leveraging additional funding and support:
- Financial Capital: flexible funding, long term support
- Intellectual Capital: sharing good practice, bursaries, education & training
- Social Capital: networking through RankNet and our Fellowship
Our experience suggests that by concentrating funding, knowledge and expertise in a very focused way, promoting stronger partnerships and increased collaboration, helps to ‘add value’ where the outcome is greater than the sum of each part.
The Rank Foundation in numbers
Recent News
Rank Conference 2019: Valuing Place
On October 9th-10th, The Rank Foundation hosted the annual conference at the fantastic Queens Hotel in Leeds. Every year the Foundation brings together beneficiary organisations, Time to Shine Leaders, [...]
CAP: Molly and Sophia
We are part way through the period of Community Action Placements, hosted by organisations known to, and funded by The Rank Foundation. Our School Leadership Award Holders are required to do [...]
Press Release: The Rank Foundation receives £3.3m grant to expand Time to Shine
The Time to Shine programme is empowering future leaders in the social sector The Rank Foundation, a charitable trust that promotes leadership development and enterprise within the social sector, is [...]