Who funds us?
We are currently funded by the following donors:
- The Joffe Charitable Trust – £197,295 over three years from March 2023, and £810,000 over three years from July 2025
- The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust – £100,000 over two years from April 2025
- Open Society Foundations – USD 64,282 (£47,113) to address SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) through strengthening legal regulation, from October 2024 to December 2026
- The Friends Provident Charitable Foundation – £104,300 over two years from June 2024, to support work creating more equal access to key economic decision-makers in government to ensure a fairer economy
- The David & Elaine Potter Foundation – £30,000 over one year from September 2024
- Sub-grant via the Foreign Policy Centre from the Joffe Charitable Trust – £2,500 for work on a report advancing practical solutions to address the UK’s enabling environment for corruption
- The JRSST Charitable Trust – £34,896 over one year from October 2024, for work on reforms to the UK’s framework for upholding political integrity
- Gower Street – £20,000 towards our work with civil society partners in Ghana, to ensure they have a voice in how the UK tackles corruption, money laundering and poor governance in measures to tackle climate change, over twelve months from January 2025
- Network for Social Change Charitable Trust – £17,935 towards our work preventing corruption in climate spending in the UK, over twelve months from March 2025
Who do we work with?
We work closely with other organisations that share our mission of ending corruption and are an active member of the UK Anti-Corruption Coalition. We believe strongly in the power of cooperation and coordination of civil society to achieve change.
Our Impact
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Defending integrity and ethics in UK public life
Given the political ethics scandals of recent years and declining trust in politicians, Spotlight has worked closely to reform how ethics in UK public life are regulated. In 2021, Spotlight…
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Shutting down the UK’s Golden Visa regime
In July 2021, we published a briefing, Red Carpet for Dirty Money: The UK’s Golden Visa Regime – which was covered in The Times – looking at the ongoing risks…
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Exposing the lack of senior executive accountability for economic crime
There have long been calls for greater senior executive accountability for economic crime but not much research to show the scale of the UK’s enforcement gap for senior executives. In…
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An end to impunity for big business?
The UK is, at last, poised to enact meaningful corporate criminal liability reforms. Three years ago, there was little realistic probability of the government ever introducing corporate liability reform. We…
