Who funds us?
We are currently funded by the following donors:
- The Sigrid Rausing Trust – £75,000 for one year from March 2026
- 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 Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust – £50,052 over one year from November 2025, for work on stronger checks and balances in the regulation of UK political parties and their finances.
- 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
- The Cobalt Trust – £4,253 towards our core work
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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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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Highlighting a major UK-Saudi bribery scandal
After several years campaigning to ensure the Serious Fraud Office’s investigation into bribes on Saudi defence contracts was not derailed by political interference, we were delighted when it did finally…
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Visualising data on the fight against economic crime
Spotlight has always placed great emphasis on founding our policy recommendations on a solid evidence base. That’s why our researchers delve deep into data archives in search of the crucial…
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Making the most of the UK’s new sanctions powers
Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine led to a large expansion in the use of sanctions by the government, but also consumed most of its sanctions capacity. We have worked with…
