The FACET Foundation

Registered charity 1126003 · since 2008facet-foundation.org·Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa·Updated 29 October 2026

At a glance

$1.1M

Annual giving, year to 31 December 2025

From filed accounts

Key takeaways

The FACET Foundation's stated purposes cover education, health, community wellbeing and poverty relief, and it funds through local charities in its priority areas of Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa.
Its eligibility test is that applicants be suitable charitable organisations on the ground in Southern Africa whose objectives align with its own, so a group working elsewhere is unlikely to fit.
Its published information gives no grant range and no application process, so a small charity should contact the foundation first to ask about likely size and how to apply rather than assume a figure.
Because trustees decide where grants go based on reports from partner charities, a request is best framed as a partnership around a specific programme, showing how the work meets the foundation's aims and what outcomes it can report.
The information does not say how long decisions take or how competitive funding is, so ask about both at first contact.

Overview

The FACET Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1126003).

The FACET Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1126003) that aims to generate funds to relieve poverty, provide education and promote health causes, principally in Southern Africa. It works with local partners on programmes addressing the effects of poor health and limited access to basic education on disadvantaged children and young people. It continues to provide core funding to charities in Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa, and the annual report shows $1,093,000 paid, although the register does not confirm that scale.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The foundation supports education, health and well-being in communities in southern Africa, with poverty relief among its charitable purposes. It works with local partners on targeted programmes addressing the effects of poor health and limited access to basic education on disadvantaged children and young people. It makes grants to suitable charitable organisations on the ground in Southern Africa whose objectives align with its own; its reported core funding is channelled through local charities in Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa. Its approach is partnership-based and programme-focused, and trustees use reports from partner organisations to decide where grants are made.

Themes

Education
Health
Community wellbeing
Poverty relief

Geographic Focus

Priority: Lesotho; Botswana; South Africa.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

Applicants should be suitable charitable organisations on the ground in Southern Africa whose objectives align with the foundation's.
Trustees decide where grants are made based on reports from the partner charities.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Botswana
Lesotho
South Africa

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to The FACET Foundation.

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Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2021	£610,585	£795,099	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£1,712,299	£665,448	£593,866	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£915,868	£2,094,607	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£834,773	£37,695	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024
year to 31 December 2025	£1,069,023	£525,826	$1,093,000	Accounts for year to 31 December 2025

Year to 31 December 2025 not shown: grants paid were reported in US dollars and income in pounds.

Grants paid, year to 31 December 2022: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).
Grants paid, year to 31 December 2025: grants paid out in the year.

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.