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We provide flexible, unrestricted funding as well as funding for research or specific projects, as requested by grantee-partners, and we also contribute to pooled funds.
We are unlikely to fund work outside our focus areas and we do not sponsor individuals or events.
Indigo Trust supports Laws.Africa and the African Legal Information Institute (African LII) who make case law accessible to individuals, organisations, and governments by building and maintaining sustainable, free access to law portals across Africa and beyond.
Credit: Laws.Africa
Indigo Trust supports law centres and other organisations providing free legal advice. During the pandemic we were involved in the pool funding and managing of the Community Justice Fund.
Credit: Ealing Law Centre
The Trust remains committed to learning, improving and being transparent about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. As part of this journey, The Trust became a member of the Funders for Race Equality Alliance and undertook an audit of its grant-making to understand which organisations in the portfolio are led by and for people of colour.
Indigo Trust will continue to monitor the diversity of its grantee portfolio, using the DEI data standard, to identify and prioritise groups experiencing structural inequity.
In terms of grant-making, the Trust was an early funder of Black Equity Organisation, Baobab Foundation and Glitch, whom we continue to learn from and support through sharing networks.
The Trust prioritises funding work that is less well supported by other donors, either because it is perceived as risky or unpopular or is a less understood issue. We currently fund four organisations addressing this issue from a range of angles:
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation - UK-wide charity that exists to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation
Marie Collins Foundation - supporting children, young people and their families affected by technology-assisted child sexual abuse
Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse - training and support for UK professionals in identifying and responding to CSA
5Rights Foundation - an international NG0 driving change to revolutionise the online environment for children and society as a whole
The Trust is also an active partner in the Funders for a Safe Childhood, a collaborative initiative aimed at combating childhood sexual violence.
In response to the erosion of women’s rights globally and the persistent and pervasive violence against women and girls, Indigo made a number of grants under its other funding strands which related to women’s rights. We have now added this as a funding focus to our portfolio as we believe that addressing inequitable social and political structures, systems, resourcing, and practices is needed to achieve equitable opportunities and outcomes for women and girls.
We will therefore look to provide unrestricted, multi-year funding to women’s right’s organisations in the UK to better resource:
We currently fund Centre for Women’s Justice, Femicide Census and Women’s Resource Centre.
We work to support more effective grant-making and philanthropy by individual donors, trusts and foundations and others.
Indigo Trustee, Fran Perrin, was the founder of 360Giving and is now Patron. Our Executive, Thrisha Haldar, is Vice Chair of the board. Indigo Trust continues to provide unrestricted funding to 360Giving and all of our grants are published to the 360Giving data standard.
We are an active member of the Foundation Practice Rating, which rates grant-makers, without their permission, on their diversity, accountability and transparency. Indigo’s Trust Executive contributed to discussion and raising awareness of the rating and aspirations for improving grant-making practices across the UK. Indigo has co-funded this project since 2022.
Indigo Trust supports interventions gathering robust data and sharing it for social impact.
We currently fund the International Centre for Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to disseminate data on eyecare provision across the majority world via the Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness portal.
Copyright © 2025 The Indigo Trust