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.
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Recent News
Time to Shine Showcase 2020
In March, The Rank Foundation hosted a virtual Showcase to celebrate and demonstrate the work of the 2020 Time to Shine leaders. No one could have predicted the challenges they [...]
Checking in with Plymouth
The Rank Foundation began Place-Based funding in Plymouth back in 2018 after rolling out place-based Engaged Philanthropy models in Hull and Dundee. Plymouth has become a fantastic place of [...]
Wellbeing with Rank
August 2020 saw the launch of our “Wellbeing with Rank”, a series of virtual sessions organised by The Rank Foundation team for the benefit of RankNet members as a [...]