Aberdeen Group Charitable Foundation

As part of Aberdeen Group Charitable Foundation’s giving strategy we fund charities and programmes that help make a difference to the communities in which we operate.

We take a strategic approach to selecting Powerful Partners, and these are not available for open application. Working with our external consultants we source potential partners from across the regions looking at this from a thematic and geographical perspective. These are typically significant multi-year grants to organisations and projects where our support can have a transformative impact. Our board considers and decides on partnerships that are aligned to our people and planet strategy in Q1 and Q3 each year.

Depending on the size and nature of the project, there are two open routes through which registered charities and non-profit organisations can apply for funding.

We support a number of powerful and regional partnerships.

We gather quarterly impact data from our partners based on inputs, outputs and depth of impact. This methodology is based on the Business for Social Impact (B4SI) Framework.

We monitor estimated aggregate impacts from our partnerships, with the goal of understanding how our contribution translates to sustainable outcomes for people and planet, as our areas of strategic focus.

Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

We require our strategic partners to outline project-specific objectives and to estimate the contribution of the project towards the SDGs. The illustration in the chart below relates to estimated SDG impacts relating to the 2023 financial year, applicable to around £1.5m of funding. Quality education (SDG 4) continues to be a common focus for our partners, with our partnerships with The Alan Turing Institute and UNESCO also contributing toward supporting Life on land (SDG 15).