Current partners and recent funding
Over the last five years we have funded 15 charities embedded in their communities in Lambeth and Southwark, awarding 13 unrestricted, multi-year grants of around £30,000 pa. We reflect on what we learn and turn that learning into action when we can.
The Director and a trustee visit partners at least twice a year, learning about the difference their work is making in their communities, listening to the challenges they are experiencing and understanding more about the difference unrestricted funding is making. Recently we learnt about the impact of inflation and the Cost-of-Living crisis on service users and partners’ own organisation’s costs. We receive feedback on Peter Minet Trust, listen to what more funders can do to support their work and take responsibility for capturing and documenting learning from our visits.
Learning into action
In response to learning, we awarded retrospective Cost of Living Grants to our Round 1 funded partners and now link multi-year grants to inflation; we awarded an additional year of funding to our current Round 2 partners to address urgent challenges in 2025 - and to reflect leaders’ expertise shared that directly contributed to our Strategy; we have prioritised face-to-face visits including with a trustee, understanding their importance to partners in terms of support and respect; we offer references.
Peter Minet Trust is a small funder but we have learnt about what more we could do to support our funded partners and other similar groups if we work more collaboratively with other larger funders and agencies and we have reflected this ambition in our new strategic aims.