Read what we achieved with our partners in 2020
We help people challenge inequality and co-operate for change so they can share a fairer future.
In 2020, this meant adapting our work to respond to Covid. We paused our planned strategy. We stepped back so partners could react to their community’s needs. And we listened to what they learned.
Our flexibility at the start of lockdown helped Comics Youth create safe spaces for young people when they needed it most.
Read More >An extended repayment break on our interest-free loan helped Beechbrae social enterprise support local mental health needs despite falling income during lockdown.
Read More >Community groups funded through our Space to Connect partnership with government were listening to how their communities wanted to use spaces when the pandemic hit. Lockdown presented opportunities and challenges for us to learn from.
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We know from our £6.5m investment into youth projects that loneliness affects young people from all backgrounds. Our In This Together research showed this was made worse by Covid.
Many of our partners adapted their projects to work digitally, improving access to services for even more young people.
Our Lonely Not Alone campaign was bigger than ever. Thank you to the thousands of you who showed your support.
Our #iwill Fund partner, TwentyTwenty, adapted quickly when Covid hit to maintain the trust of the young people they support and expand their reach, tackling loneliness along the way.
Read More >Young people, like Elorm, co-created our Lonely Not Alone campaign to address the stigma of loneliness and remind other young people they’re not alone.
Read More >Our funding for the Belong Collective and National Youth Partnership helped youth workers better understand and tackle rising levels of loneliness during the 2020 lockdowns.
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Based on outcomes recorded against Belong projects from 2017 to 21 January 2021.
We want a future that starts with different voices being heard. One that’s built by working together to make things better. A future where everyone can belong.
Through our Luminate programme, partners are exploring the experiences of people of colour in tech while our support for Getting on Board, Action for Trustee Racial Diversity and Young Trustees Movement will help tackle inequality in charity boardrooms.
Meanwhile, young people are having a say in how our youth funding is allocated through our Youth Advisory Group and the Charity Digital Code is helping community organisations reach more people online.
Our grant is helping to increase the racial diversity of charity trustee boards so they can better represent and support their communities.
Read More >Our partner, Annette Joseph, explains how profit and innovation in tech can be increased by understanding the experiences of people of colour, and tackling racial inequality.
Read More >Young people from our Youth Advisory Group have been speaking up to help us make more informed decisions on issues that affect their age group.
Read More >With our new CEO, Nick Crofts, we will work with Co-op and other partners through 2021 to
challenge inequality and champion co-operation in communities UK-wide.
to all our partners and match funders for everything you achieved and learned with us in 2020.
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Co-op Foundation is a working name of Co-operative Community Investment Foundation, a charity registered in England and Wales
(1093028) and Scotland (SC048102).
Registered office: 1 Angel Square, Manchester M60 0AG
