Our work is guided by the following principles:
- Intelligent: seeking intelligence from those on the ground about what is needed and feeding this in continually to funder responses.
- Straightforward: seeking to do the possible not the perfect in a fast-changing environment and dealing with unexpected difficulties in a straightforward way.
- Easy: simplified processes to multiple funders for applicants under severe personal and professional stress: a single application form, light-touch due diligence, and one reporting channel.
- Quick: a commitment to appropriate speed, recognising that crisis responses need to be very fast but there will also be a need for more reflective responses over time.
- Trusting: managing risk through relationships, putting trust at the heart of what we do.
- Equitable: ensuring that funding decisions are as inclusive as possible and take account of the diversity of the sector - particularly of smaller organisations and organisations working with and led by marginalised communities.
- Flexible: making grants flexible in order that organisations can adapt activities, outcomes and deadlines as the situation changes.
- Reflective: building in learning and insight about how the sector is changing and preparing to embed the best elements in day to day practice when the crisis is over.
- Influential seeking to use the learning and insights gathered through the fund and collaboration in order to influence the wider environment to support the sector in its response.