The Coutts Foundation
Supporting charities to help shape brighter tomorrows.
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The mission of the Coutts Foundation is to support sustainable approaches to tackle the causes and consequences of poverty, in the communities where Coutts has a presence, leading to brighter tomorrows.
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The mission of the Coutts Foundation is to support sustainable approaches to tackle the causes and consequences of poverty, in the communities where Coutts has a presence, leading to brighter tomorrows.
Building on the legacy of Thomas Coutts and his great-granddaughter Angela Burdett-Coutts, a progressive 19th-century philanthropist, the Coutts Foundation focuses primarily on work that:
- supports vulnerable women and girls and
- work that empowers young people through the performing arts.
The Coutts Foundation is an independent corporate foundation, supported by Coutts.
The Coutts Foundation makes significant commitments to a small number of organisations that reflect its mission.
Organisations supporting Women & Girls
We currently support women and girls charities that:
- Intervene early and seek to prevent violence against women and girls
- Empower women and girls to move beyond the trauma they have experienced and flourish
- Support children who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing domestic abuse
We continue to identify specialist women and girls organisations and particularly those that are led by and for black and minoritised women and girls.
ORGANISATIONS SUPPORTING YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THE PERFORMING ARTS
We currently support charities that empower young people through the performing arts, particularly those co-created with young people in some of the most deprived areas of the country.
OTHER ORGANISATIONS WE SUPPORT
Who we are
The Board and Staff of the Coutts Foundation bring a wealth of experience and expertise. All are committed to the mission to support sustainable approaches to tackle the causes and consequences of poverty.
The Board of the Coutts Foundation includes members who are appointed by Coutts as well as Trustees who are independent of Coutts.
The Coutts Foundation is run by its Director and is fortunate to be supported by volunteers and staff of Coutts who offer their expertise pro-bono.
Information for Grant-seekers
The Coutts Foundation adopts a proactive approach to its philanthropy and in its identification of organisations to support. The Foundation's focus is supporting UK registered charities that support women and girls and charities that empower young people through the performing arts, with a particular focus on addressing the causes and consequences of poverty. It is especially interested in organisations that are developing innovative solutions and/or those whose successful work has the potential to be scaled up. The Foundation applies clear criteria in its selection of funding recipients.
The Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals for funding. However, if you wish to bring information about your organisation or programmes that fit with our funding priorities to our attention, please complete the information submission form and either email it to us or post it.
Coutts Foundation,
440 Strand,
London WC2R 0QS
The Coutts Foundation will be in touch if we would like to learn more about your organisation. The Coutts Foundation is a Living Wage Funder. Thank you for your interest in the Coutts Foundation.
The Coutts Foundation is committed to transparency, and we work with 360 Giving to publish information about our grants.
Using the 360 Giving Data Standard, our awarded grants since 2015 are available as a JSON file below to download. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. The data must be attributed to the Coutts Foundation.
We have published our grants on 360 Giving, an initiative that aims to help UK funders publish their data in an open and standard format online. By publishing our data in an open format through 360 Giving, it can be shared and compared more easily.
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The Coutts Foundation is an independent charity registered in England and Wales. Registered charity number: 1150784 and a company limited by guarantee (number: 8395296).