Impact Report 2019

The Society Foundation
The Society Foundation is an independent charity we helped to set up in 2014.
We fund it with an annual donation, equal to at least 10% of our profits. In
2019 it gave out five grants to organisations that help potentially vulnerable
people into paid employment.
The Society Foundation typically offers ‘microgrants’ to small or growing
organisations with a turnover of up to £500,000. The beneficiaries it seeks to
prioritise include the recently homeless or vulnerably housed, ex-offenders, and
16-24 year olds not in employment, education or training (NEETs).
CARAS
SUPPORTING DIVERSITY
CHALLENGING ADVERSITY
CARAS
Location: South West London
Grant: £1,400
CARAS (Community Action for Refugees and
Asylum Seekers) is a community outreach charity
that supports refugees and asylum seekers in South
West London. Their grant will allow them to purchase
of two laptops and the associated IT set-up. This
would enhance the digital literacy skills, and thus the
employability, of hundreds of young people in the
years to come.
CARNEY’S COMMUNITY
Location: Wandsworth, London
Grant: £1,500
Carney’s works to improve the social mobility of
disadvantaged youths through mentoring schemes.
The grant will allow them to cover the costs of the
chief executive training course at the CASS Business
School, indirectly improving the organisation’s
strategic and programmatic delivery.