Our Annual Report

We are delighted to share the continued impact of the Foundation: early in 2023 we passed £1 million of grant giving, half our 10-year grant-funding target. We were also able to confirm our secure financial futures funding has reached over 4,800 young people in our first five years, nearly half our 10-year goal. Read more about this here.

None of this would have happened without our invaluable network of charity partners and friends of the Hymans Robertson Foundation. Our charity partners continue to be at the heart of our priority to secure better financial futures for young people. Our report reflects the impact they have, with the support of our funding and network of partners: we are grateful for the services our funded partners provide, including employability skills training, financial education, and mental health and wellbeing services for young people, and for the voluntary digital and technology support provided by our partners who support not for profit organisations.

The Foundation is now fully fledged with a strong governance structure. We are committed to the ongoing development of the governance framework and our Board supports a dynamic approach to strategic delivery ensuring we remain responsive to an ever-changing environment. In 2023 we were delighted to welcome a Young Ambassador to our Board, who makes sure the voices of the young people we want to impact are heard and is helping shape our focus and decisions.

We share our community impact goals with our funder, Hymans Robertson, with the Foundation facilitating relationships between Hymans Robertson volunteers and our charity partners.  This year people at Hymans Robertson achieved over 1,300 hours of volunteering, and fundraising activities at Hymans Robertson raised an additional £12,000 in matched funding from the Foundation.  In addition, the Foundation made humanitarian donations on behalf of the people at Hymans Robertson to DEC for the floods in Pakistan and the Turkey-Syria earthquake appeal.

As we came to the close of the 2022-23 financial year, we bid a fond farewell to our retiring Chair, Clive Fortes, who successfully steered us through the turbulence of the past few years. We are delighted to welcome our new Chair, Gill Tait. Gill has been on our Board since 2016 and brings a deep understanding and experience of the Foundation to the role.