Our distinguishing characteristics
- SHINE's trustees fund all SHINE's annual operating costs.
- Every penny of every donation reaches the projects we fund.
- Our trustees' skills provide innovative management for our endowment.
- We make a small number of large grants.
- We are committed to developing a broad range of partnerships.
- We have an absolute determination to achieve measurable outcomes.
How we work
- We are committed to providing outstanding returns for our donors.
- We proactively search for projects to fund.
- We link with respected organisations to fund innovative projects.
- We define measurable outcomes with grantees prior to funding.
- We monitor and evaluate to ensure delivery of these defined outcomes.
- We are keen to replicate successful projects and are actively seeking new donors to help us achieve this goal.
Children with poor reading skills are five times more likely to be excluded from school||One study found that 63% of pupils excluded from school had criminal convictions by the age of 24||Since August 2000, we have invested more than £9.4 million in projects in London and Manchester||This money is now helping more than 18,600 children from nearly 620 schools