Who funds us?
We are currently funded by the following donors:
- The Joffe Charitable Trust – £197,295 over three years from March 2023
- The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust – £150,000 over three years from February 2022
- Open Society Foundations – USD 495,588 (£402,018) to support research and advocacy work on anti-money laundering reforms in the UK for three years from May 2022, also a supplemental grant of USD 102,000 (£80,764) for one year from May 2024 for further research and advocacy work on anti-money laundering reforms in the UK
- Open Society Foundations – USD 70,000 (£48,884) for work on anti-corruption sanctions, from September 2024 until March 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, July 2024 to June 2025
- 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, for twelve months from January 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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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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Analysing anti-money laundering supervision of the UK legal sector
Our major report on the UK’s legal sector and money laundering rules, A Privileged Profession?, was published in October 2022. The product of months of research, the report revealed that…
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Champions of open justice
Spotlight works hard to make sure that the courts are as transparent as possible so that the public can understand and scrutinise how effectively the justice system is operating. We…
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Securing the resources to fight economic crime
Even the best anti-corruption laws are useless if they aren’t enforced. That’s why Spotlight advocates robustly for increased funding of the UK’s economic crime fighting agencies. In January 2022, Spotlight…
