We believe in being transparent about the sources of our funding and purposes behind it.
Who funded us in 2019/20
Grant and donations income in 2019/20
|
Funder |
Amount |
What the funding was for |
|---|---|---|
|
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust |
£62,500 |
Unrestricted grant |
|
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport |
£230,000 |
Innovation in Democracy programme |
|
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation |
£200,000 |
Climate Assembly UK |
|
European Climate Foundation |
£160,000 |
Climate Assembly UK |
|
Wellcome |
£45,270 |
Distributed dialogue on data |
|
Network for Social Change |
£7,724 |
Practitioners Network |
Consultancy and training income in 2019/20
|
Funder |
Amount |
What the funding was for |
|---|---|---|
|
UK Research and Innovation |
£219,218 |
Sciencewise |
|
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport |
£130,453 |
Innovation in Democracy programme |
|
House of Commons |
£126,667 |
Climate Assembly UK |
|
Welsh Parliament Senedd Cymru |
£70,772 |
Citizens’ Assembly of Wales |
|
London Borough of Redbridge |
£67,671 |
Community engagement in Gants Hill and Seven Kings |
|
Joseph Rowntree Foundation |
£67,489 |
In-work poverty co-design process |
|
The Scottish Government |
£65,633 |
Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland |
|
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames |
£57,900 |
Citizens’ Assembly on Air Quality |
|
Transport for Greater Manchester |
£44,623 |
Citizens’ conversation on driverless vehicles |
|
Northern Gas Network |
£40,692 |
Northern Gas Network citizens’ panel |
|
London Borough of Waltham Forest / The Democratic Society |
£39,367 |
Waltham Forest Citizens’ Assembly on Hate Crime |
|
Home Office |
£35,393 |
Home Office Open Space Coordinator |
|
The Scottish Government |
£22,917 |
Participation Framework |
|
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
£21,657 |
Residents’ Reference Panel |
|
Carnegie UK Trust |
£21,299 |
Citizen engagement strand of the Scottish Government’s Digital Ethics programme |
|
DEFRA / National Centre for Social Research |
£19,977 |
DEFRA Environment Plan |
|
University of Liverpool |
£19,804 |
Initiative for Civic Space, Northern Ireland |
|
London Borough of Camden |
£12,650 |
Camden’s Climate Assembly |
|
Scottish Government / The Democratic Society |
£12,034 |
Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland |
|
London Borough of Camden |
£10,000 |
Distributed dialogue on data, Camden |
|
Government of Jersey / New Citizenship Project |
£9,863 |
Citizen engagement projects for the Government of Jersey |
|
Community Foundation for Northern Ireland |
£6,466 |
Civic Innovation subject expert |
|
The Scottish Government |
£5,450 |
Distributed dialogue on data, North Lanarkshire |
|
University of East Anglia |
£5,000 |
Artificial Intelligence stakeholder platform |
Who funded us in 2018/19
Grant and donations income (≥ £5,000)
| Funder | Amount1 | What the funding was for |
|---|---|---|
| Open Society Foundation | £62,725 | Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland |
| Esmee Fairbairn Foundation | £60,000 | Citizens’ Assembly on Social Care |
| Building Change Trust | £59,500 | Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland |
| Omidyar Network | £43,693 | Citizens’ Assembly on Social Care |
| Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust | £42,500 | Core funding |
| Esmee Fairbairn Foundation | £40,000 | Coalition for Deliberative Democracy |
| Big Lottery Fund (via the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations) | £31,493 | Running the Open Government Pioneers Project in England and Coordinating the UK Open Government Network. |
| Community Foundation for Northern Ireland | £30,000 | Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland |
| Paul Hamlyn Foundation | £20,000 | Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland |
| Wellcome | £16,573 | MH:2K programme. |
Consultancy and training income (≥ £5,000)
| Funder | Amount2 | What the funding is for |
|---|---|---|
| Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | £225,000 (estimated) | Sciencewise programme. This programme will continue into 2019/20. |
| UK Parliament (Health and Social Care Select Committee & Housing, Communities, and Local Government Select Committee) |
£47,400 | Citizens’ Assembly on Social Care |
| The Home Office | £36,796 | Civil Society Open Space process for Home Office Law Enforcement Data Service and Home Office Biometrics work. Further funding for this work is expected in 2019/20. |
| Deepmind Technologies Ltd | £31,171 | Roundtables with professional stakeholders interested in Artificial Intelligence, ethics and public engagement. |
| Open Data Institute | £28,128 | Design of a decision-making process for pilot data trust. |
| Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | £21,657 | Residents Reference Panel on Building Safety in High Rise Residential Buildings. This work, including further funding, will continue into 2019/20. |
| Northern Gas Networks Ltd | £18,775 | NGN Public Panel for RIIO-2 Business Plan. This work, including further funding, will continue into 2019/20. |
| NESTA | £18,208 | Public dialogue on Artificial Intelligence |
| The Scottish Government | £18,000 | Part-time secondment to develop a Participation Framework for the Scottish Government. This work, including further funding, will continue into 2019/20. |
| Open Government Partnership | £16,413 | Research and a paper for the OGP on citizens, social movements and the OGP. |
| Guardian News and Media | £16,033 | Workshops and materials for the Guardian’s Gene Gap project. |
| The Scottish Government | £15,100 | Supporting the Scottish Government’s public engagement on attitudes to agriculture, environment and rural priorities. |
| Carnegie UK Trust | £12,090 | Data sharing and public benefit. We also received funding for this project in 2017/18 from Carnegie UK Trust and The Wellcome Trust. |
| OECD | £10,000 | Open local government handbook |
| The University of Sheffield (in turn, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council) | £5,057 | UK political party reform. We also received funding for this project in 2017/18 from the University of Sheffield. |