About
Our purpose is to bring about positive social change.
Our mission
We enable charitable organisations and their leaders to:
- Develop and share solutions that address society’s most challenging needs and neglected issues
- Realise the potential of the organisations and individuals involved
- Create a fairer society
We do this by:
- Making grants
- Convening and enabling partnerships
- Drawing out and sharing learning
- Bringing about improvements in services and in people’s lives
We create and support a culture of collaboration by:
- Helping organisations learn how to collaborate
- Demonstrating what it takes to collaborate
- Promoting outward-looking collaboration
Our values
In all that we do, we are:
- Trusting
Giving power and responsibility to those closest to the work
- Collaborative
Enabling, catalysing, bringing people together
- Creative
Innovative, flexible and prepared to take risks
- Rigorous
Transparent, accountable and reliable
Our priorities
In order to achieve our mission, over the next few years we at the Rayne Foundation are prioritising work in the following areas. We want to see an improvement in:
- opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers (UK); and
- the quality of life for people in later life and their carers (UK).
In addition, the Rayne Trust supports projects working on:
- together with the Rayne Trust, community centres in disadvantaged areas (UK); and
- increasing tolerance and understanding between communities (Israel).
Rayne Trust
The Rayne Foundation’s sister charity, the Rayne Trust, funds projects in Israel that increase tolerance and understanding between its different communities. The Trust is also engaged in a proactive programme centred on the development of community centres in areas of disadvantage in the UK, as well as various other grants at the discretion of trustees.
“I really appreciate the strong sense of partnership, especially since our second grant. I feel they really show an interest in us and our work and that there is a genuine two-way conversation about learning.”