The Rank Foundation reaches Plymouth
The Rank Foundation is embarking on a £1.5m investment in the city of Plymouth. Known as Britain’s Ocean City, Plymouth is home to 260,000 residents in addition to the 22,000 students at the [...]
Community Action Placements 2018
We are now mid-way through our annual 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 two Community [...]
Rank Accelerator Event 2018
The Rank Foundation has now launched the annual Rank Accelerator Event in preparation for the annual conference, held in October. Open to organisations that are members of RankNet, the Rank Accelerator Event has a [...]
Memorial Award Winners 2017: Update
Last Wednesday The Rank Foundation launched applications for the Rank Memorial Award 2018. This is open to all members of the network and opens up an opportunity to embark on an adventure exploring an area [...]
The Rank Memorial Award 2018
The Rank Memorial Award was established in 2010 to commemorate our former Chairman, Mr. Fred Packard. The aim of the Memorial Award is to create an opportunity to travel and explore a specific area of personal interest, relating to our work [...]
Rank Aspire Residential
In February, our pilot group of Rank Aspire Programme (RAP) members made their way up to the Lake District to embark on group activities and tackling the Via Ferrater. Despite some challenging weather, the [...]
Time to Shine Launch 2018
In January, The Rank Foundation hosted three residential sessions for the new Time to Shine interns and their managers at the Midland Hotel, Morecambe. There were a number of close-calls with the weather forecast [...]
HEY100 Leadership Programme Launch
The HEY100 Leadership Programme, a free leadership and management development series, open to managers, community leaders, trustees and CEOs in Hull and East Yorkshire, was launched on the 26th of January. Funded by Big Lottery [...]
Blog: Is argumentation socially beneficial?
I think the world would be a better place if we could learn how to argue with each other better. I'm not talking about shouty and aggressive interactions; which are ultimately a combination of clamorous [...]
Time to Shine Residential – Windermere
The 2017 Time to Shine Interns are now 6 months into their internships at their organisations, so The Rank Foundation run a 'halfway point' residential to check in with the interns and their managers. [...]
New grant awarded to Belvoir Cricket & Countryside Trust
We are pleased to announce our new three year grant to Belvoir Cricket & Countryside Trust, who work to influence children's lives through sport and education; encouraging healthy lifestyles through sports participation and enhancing the [...]
Shortlisted for the Charity Awards!
We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the ‘Grantmaking and Funding’ accolade in The Charity Awards 2017 for our Time to Shine Programme. The Time to Shine programme has been amended and refined over [...]