Stories

Our long-term partnership with Refugee Action has provided urgent support to people facing destitution and exclusion, while creating spaces where people with lived experience lead change, influence policy, and rebuild their lives with dignity.

Thomas Cockcroft, 25, is leading change through his organisation, FungALL, to improve his community through mushrooms!

A grant from the Funding Futures Programme helped Alaa Alsewid kick-start her idea for a social enterprise that would use lived experience, local knowledge, and cultural understanding to deliver training to communities that need it most.

It’s been 15 years since we started funding Young Scot, Scotland’s youth charity. Find out more about our partnership and the latest project we’ve funded.

Learning & Impact Report 2022: Depaul UK is creating more prosperous future communities by using funding from our Astra Foundation partnership to help young people at risk of homelessness get back on their feet.

Learning & Impact Report 2022: We’re supporting Fal Fishery Co-operative CIC to deliver new ways of protecting native oyster populations as part of our work to build more sustainable future communities.