Information for grant holders

We want to work alongside the people and groups we fund. We aim to work as flexibly as possible and build strong trusting relationships so that we can use your insights to better support you in delivering your work.

We are committed to being an open and trusting grant maker and strive to always follow IVAR’s eight commitments: to not waste time, to ask relevant questions, to accept risk, to act with urgency, to be open, to enable flexibility, to communicate with purpose and to be proportionate.

We believe supporting learning is one of the key ways we can drive social change. This means we aim to be a learning organisation and to support you to learn from your work. 

We hope to build a culture of reflective practice and create an environment of reciprocal knowledge exchange between us, you and the wider communities we work with. 

We welcome and value your reflections on what is working and what is not. We will use your feedback to learn and strengthen our grant making practice going forward.

To support our learning, we collect anonymized feedback from all applicants and grantees through the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s Grantee and Applicant Perception Surveys. We anticipate the next survey will be run in 2025/6 and you can see the results of our most recent survey.

If you have feedback on the relationship you have with us as a funder, we encourage you to talk to your Grants Manager. 

If you have feedback more generally on information or resources you’d find it helpful to have as a grant holder, please get in touch with us at information@phf.org.uk.

We want our office to be available to organisations we work with as a space to meet and work. We have two meeting rooms in our central London offices we offer to people we are currently or have recently funded.

There is no charge for the use of these rooms. Find out more about how you can request one of these meeting rooms and details about what we offer.

We take our responsibilities to safeguarding seriously, and require the organisations we fund to do the same. You can read our safeguarding policy below and some guidance to organisations about online safeguarding practice.