Hargreaves Lansdown Charitable Foundation

The Hargreaves Lansdown Charitable Foundation drives positive sustainable impact through four pillars—next generation, local communities, health and wellbeing, improving lives—rooted in empowering financial resilience via education, saving, and confident investing. Core values emphasize collaborative partnerships, employee-driven nominations fostering deep long-term relationships, demonstrable outcomes in wellbeing, and community empowerment, believing change arises from staff-identified needs, robust governance, and targeted interventions building individual and family confidence over one-off aid.

Prioritizing next generation support, it funds youth development programs including financial education training, employability mentoring, and adventure activities for young people aged 16-25 facing barriers like poverty or exclusion, alongside Prince's Trust initiatives for care leavers and disadvantaged youth. Local communities benefit from food insecurity relief through food sharing networks addressing hunger for families in crisis, air ambulance services for emergency health access in rural areas, and community cohesion projects reducing isolation. Health and wellbeing grants support cancer research, mental health counselling and peer support groups via Mind for anxiety and depression, while improving lives pillar backs disability services like guide dog provision for blind and visually impaired individuals, therapeutic interventions for complex health needs, and children's health programs through Ark fostering resilience. Interventions favor preventative financial literacy, therapeutic wellbeing activities, community-led outreach, and evidence-based projects enhancing emotional regulation, independence, and family carer support.

Exclusions target no core organizational funding, unrestricted grants, or general operations, focusing solely on defined project initiatives with clear attribution. Distinctives include employee-voted partners, matched fundraising for staff-chosen causes like disaster relief, and Bristol-centric local emphasis extending UK-wide to established charities serving young people in transition, families facing food poverty or health crises, disabled individuals seeking independence, and communities building financial and emotional resilience through person-centred, impactful philanthropy.