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Rank Ripples – Spring 2023
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Collectively The Rank Foundation’s Network ensures funding goes further
The Rank Foundation has awarded a total of almost £1.5 million to 130 Network Members using a mutual trust-based model of grantmaking. The Rank Foundation’s Network includes around 1,500 members from charities and [...]
Rank Ripples, Spring 2023 edition is out now!
This edition of Rank Ripples magazine focuses on the cost-of-living crisis. It features articles about enterprising and innovative responses from leaders across our network. There’s also some inspiration from Canada from our friends at [...]
Addressing food insecurity in Dundee – Webinar
We are pleased to share a recording of a webinar that took place in December which addressed an innovative story of how a place-based collaboration between community groups, funders and local authorities sprung to action [...]
Celebrating 50 Years of Giving
The Rank Foundation is grateful to Gareth Hart, Director of Plymouth-based Iridescent Ideas and Rank Network member, who shares his experience of the Rank Foundation's 50th-anniversary conference in this blog. What do Family Fortunes, Sweet [...]
Rank Ripples – 50th Anniversary Edition
This special 50th-anniversary edition of Rank Ripples magazine celebrates the legacy of our founder Lord Arthur Rank. Lord Rank was guided by his Christian faith, a belief in nurturing leadership and supporting young people to [...]
Pro Bono Economics launch their findings on the Time to Shine programme
The Rank Foundation are elated as Pro Bono Economics launch their findings on the Time to Shine programme. Pro Bono Economics uses economics to empower the social sector, today launching a report detailing the impact [...]
The Rank Foundation is awarding over £9 million to organisations in Northern Ireland
The Start Here programme was launched this year to create new jobs in the Sports, Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise (VCSE) sectors in Northern Ireland. The programme will support not-for-profit organisations over the next three [...]
Start Here Programme
Photography credit: Pacemaker On the 31st January 2022, Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey launched a £10m Employment & Skills Initiative, which will see grants awarded to organisations to cover salary costs for three years in sectors [...]
50 years of Giving
In 2022 The Rank Foundation will be celebrating the life of our founder, Lord Rank, and the 50 years of giving in his name. In the coming weeks, we will be launching an exciting and [...]
Rank launches Plymouth Participatory Grant Making Programme
Further to the launch of Phase two of the RFL Plymouth place-based programme, applications are now open for the Plymouth Participatory Grant Making fund. This fund will be exclusively open to Plymouth RankNet member organisations*. [...]
Rank Memorial Award Winners 2021
This year the Memorial Award will be dedicated to Erin Donald (1998-2020) – Erin was a remarkable young woman who won the Memorial Award in 2019 with a plan to study drug rehabilitation programmes in Russia and South Africa. In 2017 [...]
Celebrating 10 Years of Time to Shine
The Rank Foundation celebrated the milestone of 10 years of the Time to Shine Leadership Programme in 2020. To mark the occasion, leaders past and present as well as RankNet members attended Mercers Hall in [...]