Stratton Chase Foundation

Stratton Chase Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1209249).

Stratton Chase Foundation is an independent grant-making foundation registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. It exists to tackle inequality, advance educational opportunities and promote literacy, including reading for pleasure and arts that help children experience joy and belonging. According to its annual report, it gave £1,714,800 in total. Its programmes include unrestricted annual grants, where possible, and RAOKs, grants to charitable organisations working on causes related to, but not necessarily aligned with, its main priorities.

Priority Areas

Stratton Chase Foundation is an independent grant-making foundation focused on tackling inequality, advancing educational opportunities and promoting literacy. It aims to tackle poverty and create opportunities for young people to thrive through durable and scalable solutions addressing systemic inequality. Its education work focuses on children and young people, especially reading for pleasure and building literacy skills. It also supports the arts to preserve childhood and help children experience joy and belonging. Its grant-making focus includes Africa, specifically East Africa, and India. The foundation works through proactive partnerships: it reaches out to potential partners and performs due diligence, while describing partnerships as genuine collaborations based on open dialogue and mutual respect. It trusts partners to know what works best in their context, seeks to reduce administrative burdens, and aims to provide flexible funding and sustain long-term partnerships.

Themes

• Tackling poverty
• Education and literacy
• Arts and childhood

Geographic Focus

Priority: East Africa; India; Buckinghamshire.

With Greenwood Place, the foundation proactively reaches out to potential partners and performs due diligence; grant proposals are by invitation only, and it does not accept unsolicited proposals.

What the charity says:

• It bases partnerships on open dialogue and mutual respect for each other’s expertise.
• It trusts partners to know what works best in their context and seeks to reduce administrative burdens.
• It tries to provide flexible funding and intends to sustain long-term partnerships.