The Fore

The Fore is the UK's venture philanthropy fund championing grassroots charities and social enterprises with exceptional leadership and innovative solutions to social challenges. Founded on values of transparency, equity, and community empowerment, it drives funding decisions through rigorous impact focus, backing social entrepreneurs as field experts to foster self-solving societies. Its distinctive philosophy delivers unrestricted multi-year grants alongside capacity building, training, impact measurement, pro bono skills, and peer networks, believing transformational change arises from holistic support enabling small organisations to scale sustainably from grassroots up.

It funds broad charitable purposes emphasizing scalable innovation and strong leadership, supporting diverse beneficiaries including young people facing deafness or learning challenges through educational reframing and awareness programs, homeless individuals via employment training, job placement, and housing support to prevent chronic homelessness, ethnic minority women such as Muslim communities through cycling initiatives fostering empowerment, physical activity, and peer support groups, those with mental health challenges via therapeutic activities and wellbeing services, environmental organisations protecting coral reefs and ecosystems through conservation and community-led action, and arts groups delivering creative interventions for social isolation and youth development. Backed activities encompass core costs, project delivery, capital needs, capacity building workshops, mentoring, outreach, advocacy, preventative programs, and evidence-based impact strategies across urban, rural, and marginalised contexts, prioritizing person-centred, trauma-informed, community-led solutions like after-school clubs, outdoor activities, befriending, and holistic resilience-building for children, families, ethnic minorities, disabled people, and underserved youth.

It excludes larger organisations lacking grassroots focus, for-profit entities, and project-only funding without core support, while prioritising ambitious small charities with lived experience leadership, visionary innovation, and demonstrable potential for rapid growth in reach or structure. Distinctive for nationwide UK impact from overlooked communities—urban poverty pockets, rural isolation, ethnic enclaves—it demands equity-driven, evidence-based practice and rejects top-down interventions, uniquely bridging funding gaps for high-potential social enterprises addressing homelessness prevention, youth unemployment, family carer support, SEND education, domestic abuse recovery, addiction recovery, refugee integration, and social cohesion through unrestricted empowerment.