EducationEducation & skills
Scholarships, bursaries, vocational training and apprenticeships, together with practical skills that support the overall outcome.
Successcarries
aresponsibility.
The PEN Group Foundation supports charitable, educational and community-focused initiatives around the world, investing in people, backing worthwhile causes and building brighter futures at home and across the globe.
The Foundation
The heart of our commitment to giving back.
The PEN Group Foundation was created to support charitable, educational and community-focused initiatives around the world. It reflects our belief that success carries a responsibility to create opportunities for others.
By investing in people, supporting worthwhile causes and partnering with organisations that share our values, we aim to deliver lasting social impact, and to help build brighter futures for communities both at home and across the globe.
We are the charitable organisation of PEN Group, which underwrites our running costs so that public donations go only to programmes.
01
Investing in people
Education, skills and mentoring, along with practical skills.
02
Supporting worthwhile causes
Funding for organisations that are leaders in their field of endeavour that can evidence ongoing and tangible results.
03
Partnering on shared values
Long-term relationships with organisations whose standards match our own, at home and internationally.
By the numbers
Committed carefully. Measured honestly.
64
initiatives supported since inception
30+
partner organisations
12
countries reached
48%
of our target reached - with more to do
What we support
Four areas. One standard.
Every commitment is assessed on evidence, governed independently, and reviewed against what it set out to achieve.
Education
CommunityCommunity & wellbeing
The local organisations that hold a neighbourhood together: food provision, health, advice and the ordinary spaces people rely on when challenges are presented.
SportSport & youth development
Sport as a route into discipline, belonging and opportunity, delivered through clubs and coaches already trusted in the communities they serve.
GlobalGlobal outreach
International programmes in the regions where the Group operates, run with partners who know the ground and are accountable to the people on it.
Who we work with
Partnering with organisations that share our values.
We fund organisations already established in communities, and commit for long enough that they can plan around it.
MosaicMentoring
Opening doors that qualifications alone do not
We back mentoring that connects people in under-served communities with role models drawn from business and the professions. It is the kind of relationship that turns ambition into a plausible next step.
- Mentor recruitment
- Employability workshops
- Multi-year funding
We are always glad to hear from organisations whose work overlaps with ours. Start a conversation.
How support becomes impact
From commitment to outcome, in four steps.
01A cause is proposed
Partners, employees and community organisations put causes forward. Every proposal is assessed against the same published criteria.
02We assess and commit
Trustees review need, governance and evidence of delivery, then commit for a defined period, so a partner can plan around the funding rather than reapply for it.
03Partners deliver
The work is run by organisations already established in communities. We fund them, support them enabling key experts to deliver upon their promise.
04We measure and publish
Outcomes are tracked against what was promised and reported in full each year.
And then?
That belief enables the Foundation to activate causes that benefit people globally.
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In their words
The people who do the work, on what it changed.
“They asked what we needed rather than telling us what they wanted to fund. That is rarer than it should be, and it is why the work held up.”
Programme Director
Education partner
Get involved
There is more than one way to be useful.
Four updates a year. Nothing else, ever.
Where the money went, which commitments were made, and what the organisations we fund managed to do with it.