BGF Foundation

The BGF Foundation is an independent charitable foundation dedicated to transforming the lives of disadvantaged young people through patient, flexible support for community-rooted charities ready to scale impact. Rooted in a 'good growth' philosophy, it emphasizes long-term sustainable change via unrestricted multi-year funding and pro bono expertise from business networks, believing that combining financial stability with operational capacity-building empowers youth-facing organizations to deliver enduring outcomes in enterprise, education, employment, mental health, and physical wellbeing. Its values prioritize youth empowerment, evidence-based ambition, community integration, and harnessing corporate skills for charitable effectiveness.

It supports thematic priorities including youth development programs fostering entrepreneurial skills and enterprise for young people aged 16-25 facing barriers to opportunity, educational attainment initiatives such as after-school clubs, mentoring, and skills training addressing educational exclusion and SEND needs, employability support like employment training, work placements, and career guidance tackling youth unemployment and poverty, mental health resilience services encompassing counselling, peer support groups, therapeutic activities, and trauma-informed interventions for anxiety, depression, and emotional wellbeing, and physical wellbeing through inclusive sports, outdoor activities, and health promotion reducing isolation and building confidence. Interventions target disadvantaged young people experiencing poverty, financial hardship, ill-health, disability, learning disabilities, or complex needs, favoring preventative early intervention, community-led youth work, holistic person-centred approaches, and scalable models that enhance resilience, independence, and long-term thriving via youth empowerment and family support.

Exclusions include capital projects, seed funding, emergency relief, and short-term outputs without scaling potential. It prioritizes beneficiaries like care leavers, ethnic minority youth, rural young people, and those with ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, physical disabilities, or social isolation, served through locally embedded grassroots charities demonstrating lived experience leadership and commitment to evidence-based, innovative systemic change. Distinctive for blending unrestricted core funding with pro bono mentoring, operational skills-sharing, and employee volunteering from business ecosystems, it uniquely scales community impact for youth via strategic partnerships emphasizing sustainable growth over transient aid.