Special interest groups

Our special interest groups provide foundation representatives with opportunities to connect with peers on specific areas.

     

Social Impact Investors Group (SIIG)

The Social Impact Investors Group (SIIG) exists to support foundations thinking about making an investment and those who have been investing for years. Membership is open to foundations and organisations with a charitable or social mission with investible assets. Find out more about the SIIG here. Existing members can access the SIIG members-only community here.

Finance, Investment, Resources Management group (FIRM)

  • Membership is open to charitable foundations with investment portfolios over £100m (to join it is not essential to be an ACF member but recommended)

  • New members have the opportunity to meet informally with the FIRM steering group members to explore membership 

  • Professional advisors cannot be a member of the network, even if connected to a trust or foundation.

FIRM is a network where confidentiality is key to ensure the highly valued openness, honesty and non-judgmental peer support it delivers.

Access the Finance, Investment, Resources Management group here.

Foundations for Social Justice

Foundations for Social Justice is a network of leaders of foundations working to promote social justice. 

The group meets four times a year and provides:

  • A thinking space to make sense of the changing context of work for social justice
  • A safe environment for peers to share their ways of working, leadership challenges and opportunities
  • Connections to a peer group of leaders
  • The opportunity to learn from national and international practitioners.

Through these meetings, members identify, shape and participate in emerging collaborations.

Membership of Foundations for Social Justice is open to ACF members and there is an additional annual cost of £1,595 to join.

Read more about Foundations for Social Justice.

If you are a foundation leader (chief executive or equivalent) whose organisation has a strong focus on social justice issues, possibly within a broader remit, and if you have a personal commitment to collaborative action, please email [email protected] to express an interest.