Jonathan Toby Harris, Baron Harris of Haringey is a Labour Party politician in the House of Lords.
Action for Children is a UK children's charity created to help vulnerable children and young people and their families in the UK. The charity has 7,000 staff and volunteers who operate over 475 services in the UK. They served a total of 671,275 children in 2021 and 2022. Action for Children's national headquarters is in Watford, and it is a registered charity under English and Scottish law. In 2017/2018, it had a gross income of £151 million.
The responsible fatherhood movement encourages fathers to be involved in their children's lives and advocates for societal support of such involvement.
International Men's Day (IMD) is a global awareness day for many issues that men face, including abuse, homelessness, suicide, and violence, celebrated annually on November 19. The objectives of celebrating an International Men's Day are set out in 'All the Six Pillars of International Men's Day'. It is also an occasion to celebrate boys' and men's lives, achievements and contributions, in particular for their contributions to nation, union, society, community, family, marriage, and childcare.
The National Lottery Community Fund, legally named the Big Lottery Fund, is a non-departmental public body responsible for distributing funds raised by the National Lottery for "good causes".
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a Norwegian-based organization that seeks to establish a global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mineral resources. It seeks to address the key governance issues in the extractive sectors.
James Andrew Reed, CCMI, FCIPD is a British businessman. He is chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Reed group of companies. He is the son of Sir Alec Reed, who founded the company in 1960. He is chairman of The Big Give Trust, a match-funding charity supported in part by the Reed Foundation and the Reed family. The Big Give has raised over £284 million for UK-registered charities, with a target of £1 billion by 2030.
Big Give is a non-profit, charitable website that enables donors to find and support charity projects in their field of interest. It was founded in October 2007 by Sir Alec Reed CBE. His son James Reed became Chair of Trustees in 2019.
The Brudenell Social Club is a live music venue and social club in Hyde Park, Leeds, England. While being a social enterprise, it retains the "community atmosphere of its origins as a working men's club". The club is split into three areas—a 400 capacity concert room, a bar area and games room section and a second 400 capacity concert area, known as the Community Room, which opened in 2017.
Rushanara Ali is a British politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 2010 and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Homelessness and Rough Sleeping since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she was the first British Bangladeshi elected to Parliament.
Sir David Winton Harding is a British billionaire businessman, and the founder and CEO of Winton Group. He had previously co-founded Man AHL. His approach favours quantitative investment strategies, using scientific research as the basis of trading decisions.
UK Community Foundations (UKCF) is a registered charity that leads a movement of community foundations committed to positive social change in the UK through the development of “community philanthropy”. Community philanthropy involves people from all parts of a community working together locally to use the financial and other resources available to them to improve others’ lives.
William Matthew Timothy Stephen Sieghart is a British entrepreneur, publisher and philanthropist and the founder of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. He is former chairman of the Somerset House Trust.
Spacehive is a United Kingdom-based crowdfunding platform for projects aimed at improving local civic and community spaces.
John Joseph Paul Studzinski, CBE is an American-British investment banker and philanthropist. Since September 2018 he has been Managing Director and Vice Chairman of the global investment-management firm PIMCO.
Bright Blue is an independent centre-right think tank and pressure group with a mission statement of defending and improving liberal society, based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2014 by British thinker Ryan Shorthouse, Bright Blue aims to "defend and champion liberal, open, democratic and meritocratic values, institutions and policies." Bright Blue is a membership-based think tank, with membership open to anyone who identifies as a liberal conservative. It publishes political research, recommends and vets public policy, and hosts political events.
Dawn Jacquelyn Austwick, was the chief executive (CEO) of the Big Lottery Fund from October 2014 to 2020.
Jez Bond is a British theatre director. One of the cohort of artistic directors born in the 1960s and 70s who are now running significant UK theatres, he opened the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, London in 2013.
London Westside B.C. are an English basketball club, based in the North Kensington area of West London, England.
The Dovetail Project is a non-profit organization that provides black and brown fathers ages 17 to 24 in Chicago with a 12-week curriculum that teaches skills like understanding their rights when engaged with law enforcement, financial literacy, and job and parenting skills. The organization is located in the Southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, and was founded in 2010 by Sheldon Smith. The organization also runs the fatherhood relief fund. This fund was started in 2020 and delivers items such as food, diapers, formula, and other useful home items through giveaway events. The non-profit gets financial support from family and private foundations, leading to them making around $720K in funding in 2022. The project has also been supported by numerous notable groups and figures ranging from Nike to Fifth Third Bank.
