The Foundation makes grants towards charities and charitable projects within its three priority areas – to improve education and the wellbeing of young people, to promote the arts, and to combat the climate emergency. While continuing to help to start up, or to be the catalyst for, new charitable projects which otherwise might not have been realised, the Foundation is also willing, where appropriate, to offer unrestricted support, recognising the need among its beneficiaries for financial flexibility. Mirroring the long-term thinking and investment strategy of AKO Capital, the Foundation aims to be a significant and reliable partner to its beneficiaries, and generally seeks multi-year relationships with them.

The Foundation seeks to add value to its partners in ways beyond the purely financial: for example, AKO Capital staff are encouraged to volunteer their time and expertise with the Foundation’s beneficiaries.

The Foundation takes pride in the leanness of its administration, which results in fast decision-making, and in the greatest possible proportion of its resources being available to support beneficiaries. Our vision is to be recognised as a cost-effective and fast-moving organisation that stands out for its responsiveness as well as for the quality of the causes and projects supported.

The Foundation adopts a proactive approach to grant-making; accordingly, it does not seek applications for grants, and does not make grants in response to unsolicited applications.

Some of our beneficiaries are profiled on the pages that follow.

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University of the Arts