The Fore
The Fore is creating a society that solves its own problems. Each year we provide funding and skills to the best grassroots charities and social enterprises in the UK and we are growing.
Across the UK, talented people within communities are building practical solutions to our most complex challenges – from poverty and mental health to education, exclusion and sustainability. However, the vast majority of these solutions do not achieve their potential to drive wider change across society because of failures in how the funding system works.
The Fore is the UK’s only venture philanthropy fund that has cracked the code in how to identify and fund grassroots innovation and catalyse change. Since 2017, The Fore has been backing the best grassroots leaders and solutions with astonishing results. So far over 50% of organisations supported eight years ago have gone on to influence policy, shape national conversations and change lives at scale – see The Fore’s 2024/25 Impact Report.
Currently The Fore is funding around 50 of the best local organisations per year and supporting hundreds of others with skills. However, as an organisation we need to do more. We are looking to scale our impact through two routes. Firstly, by increasing our work backing the best charities and convening and educating donors, and secondly by leading change in the broader funding system.
Across the UK, talented people within communities are building practical solutions to our most complex challenges – from poverty and mental health to education, exclusion and sustainability. However, the vast majority of these solutions do not achieve their potential to drive wider change across society because of failures in how the funding system works.
The Fore is the UK’s only venture philanthropy fund that has cracked the code in how to identify and fund grassroots innovation and catalyse change. Since 2017, The Fore has been backing the best grassroots leaders and solutions with astonishing results. So far over 50% of organisations supported eight years ago have gone on to influence policy, shape national conversations and change lives at scale – see The Fore’s 2024/25 Impact Report.
Currently The Fore is funding around 50 of the best local organisations per year and supporting hundreds of others with skills. However, as an organisation we need to do more. We are looking to scale our impact through two routes. Firstly, by increasing our work backing the best charities and convening and educating donors, and secondly by leading change in the broader funding system.