Our Impact
Teach the Future
Teach the Future UK is a youth-led campaign for mandatory, integrated and solutions-centred climate and nature education founded in late 2019 out of the school strikes for climate movement. Since then, we’ve had numerous successes such as having the first ever children-written bill to be put forward into Westminster – the Climate Education Bill – and holding parliamentary receptions in England, Scotland and Wales.
Rewilding Britain
Rewilding Britain helps create a wilder Britain that improves lives for people, nature and the climate. Rewilding is the large-scale restoration of nature until it can take care of itself – and us – again.
Rewilding Britain wants to see rewilding flourishing across Britain, reconnecting us with nature, sustaining communities, and tackling the climate emergency and extinction crisis.
The grant from the Orp Foundation has injected vital funding to our Rewilding Innovation Fund, boosting locally led land and marine nature recovery projects across Britain. Through the Rewilding Innovation Fund, we’re able to back the bright ideas that give us hope for a better future for people, nature and climate, championing innovative and breakthrough solutions to the scale of the challenges that we face.
The latest round of projects funded included social feasibility studies of species reintroductions, eDNA sampling to rewild a former industrial site, restoring marine habitats in temperate coastal regions and testing rewilding in an urban environment through community engagement. https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/
Action Tutoring
The Orp Foundation helps us change young lives. Each year at Action Tutoring we support thousands of disadvantaged pupils to achieve academically and open doors to their future. But this simply wouldn’t be possible without the support of others. It costs us approximately £400 to provide one pupil with a full academic year of tutoring; The Orp Foundation’s generosity enables us to connect children and young people with inspiring maths and English volunteer tutors, who help pupils’ build their subject knowledge, confidence, and study skills through weekly sessions, increasing their chance of success in key exams and helping them progress to further education, employment, or training. Thank you to The Orp Foundation for helping us reduce the academic attainment gap. We’re truly grateful. Read more about the great work The Orp Foundation helps us achieve.
The Garden Classroom
“We’ve been fortunate to have been supported by the Orp Foundation – most recently with a £10,000 grant towards our Core Costs in 2020. You can find our most recent impact report here Find out more at www.thegardenclassroom.org.uk “
UKWIN
“The United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN) is a network of anti-incineration campaigners founded in 2007. UKWIN’s overarching mission is to bring about an end to the incineration of mixed waste. Our role includes helping individuals and groups develop the case against incineration and supporting networking and information between campaigners, and in doing so promote the UK-wide movement in favour of more sustainable waste/resource management.
The financial support UKWIN received from The Orp Foundation came at a critical time for the network. UKWIN was facing an increase in the number of incinerator proposals and with it a steep increase in the number of people and groups seeking our support. Three consecutive years of core funding support from The Orp Foundation created the breathing space that allowed UKWIN to find other sources of funding. This means that in 2023, more than 5 years on from our first contact with The Orp Foundation and more than 15 years since UKWIN was launched, we continue to grow and flourish.” https://ukwin.org.uk/
The Circularity Foundation
The Circularity Foundation is a registered charity dedicated to advancing education for the public benefit in the circular economy and related topics of sustainable and prudent resource use, including through workshops, conferences, seminars, lectures and undertaking and disseminating research.
As a charity actively working for positive and lasting systemic change – the transition from unsustainable linear ‘take-make-destroy’ to a circular economy functioning within ‘planetary boundaries’ – it has been very important for us to ensure our efforts would be directed where they can make a real difference. The amazing Orp funding provided the emergent organisation with a rare and special opportunity to develop its depth and thoughtfulness as an educational charity.
The Circularity Foundation will remain forever grateful for the formative financial support we received from The Orp Foundation. This support had a profound impact in the early stages of the charity, allowing those involved time to formulate our initial research projects in tandem with developing our strategies to live our mission and fulfil our charitable purpose.” https://www.circularityfoundation.org.uk/
Anna Freud
“Anna Freud is a world-leading mental health charity for children and families,and is the UK’s only children’s mental health organisation to combine practice, training and research, with a focus on family wellbeing. Anna Freud believes all children and young people deserve equal opportunities to grow, learn and thrive. To find out more please visit https://www.annafreud.org/’
‘The Orp Foundation funding has enabled us to develop our co-production work with young people seeking refuge and asylum. This has enriched our forthcoming resources bringing the evidence base alive with their voices about what is hard and what helps in their recovery from trauma. We thank the Orp Foundation for their vital support.’ – Beck Ferrari, Clinical Content Lead for the UK Trauma Council.”
CHEM Trust
“CHEM Trust would like to thank The Orp Foundation for their support and steadfast commitment to our cause over the past eight years. Their long-term vision has been a driving force in advancing our mission to protect human health and the environment from the harmful impacts of hazardous chemicals. Funding from The Orp Foundation has been critical to our work in fighting for better chemical regulation in consumer products and increasing public awareness of hazardous chemicals.
We thank The Orp Foundation for all the support they have given us, and for being an invaluable partner in our fight for a cleaner, healthier planet.”