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Funding Futures Launch

Background Children from disadvantaged backgrounds too often start school already behind their peers, and these gaps frequently widen as they move through education and into adulthood. While this pattern is familiar nationally, some local areas are successfully bucking the trend and putting disadvantaged children on a much more positive trajectory. Launching the Funding Futures resources Over the past year, with funding from Collective Futures, the Henry Smith Foundation and the Ethos Foundation, we have worked with Isos Partnership and the Education Policy Institute on a major early years project: Funding Futures. This new set of research reports and online tools is designed…
Steve Preston
December 12, 2025
Mime at the Association of Charitable Foundations Conference Company News

Mime at the Association of Charitable Foundations Conference

At Mime, we’ve always believed that data is more than just numbers on a spreadsheet—it’s a powerful lens through which we can understand our most pressing social issues. Last month, we were honoured to bring this message to the Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) Annual Conference. This year’s theme, "Future-ready foundations: building resilience, relevance and readiness," set the stage for vital conversations about how the sector can adapt to a rapidly changing landscape. We were invited to lead a workshop on using data to make informed decisions, and the response was overwhelming. Not only was our workshop the most popular of…
Steve Preston
December 4, 2025