Comic Relief

What We Fund

As a responsible funder we also support sector initiatives to make funding decisions more open. To meet these commitments, we make our data on our funding as clear and accessible as possible through the initiatives 360giving and International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).

Approaches

Comic Relief supports approaches to social change that offer something different, think outside the box or offer new thinking to achieve profound impact.

How We Fund

Our funding approach is based on four important priorities:

1. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
   We invest in organisations led by and for communities experiencing inequity, exclusion and discrimination and use learning and storytelling to help drive justice.
2. Participation and Lived Experience
   We listen to, work with and support people with direct experience of the issues we fund to ensure our own work best meets their needs.
3. Being Learning-Led
   We continually engage and reflect with our funded partners in order to drive continuous improvement and deeper understanding of the impact our funding has on social change.
4. Centring Trust in Relationships
   We understand the power imbalance traditionally held by funders and continually engage our funded partners in open and transparent dialogue in order to better understand their needs and reduce barriers to engagement, participation and support.