Who we are

Tudor is a grant-making organisation with a 70-year history of supporting voluntary organisations and community groups driving positive social change across the UK. With £230 million in assets, the trust committed £15.9 million in grants during the 2023/2024 financial year. Its assets are managed responsibly across a diverse range of funds.

In 2025, following a transformative shift in its governance structure and grant-making strategy, Tudor made its first round of grants under the new Change We Seek strategy, confirming its commitment to advance racial justice by resourcing power within communities.

Changing our governance model

We recognise that philanthropy has traditionally held power in ways that reinforce injustice through its investments, programmatic priorities and funding allocations. We believe this form of exercising “power over” should be rebalanced by fostering “power with” and “power within". This means placing communities and individuals at the heart of our work, providing resources to support their collective ambitions for transformative change in society.

To address the power imbalances within philanthropy, Tudor undertook a transformative shift to reshape every aspect of our work: from establishing a more independent governance structure to rethinking what we do with our resources and refining our operational systems, policies, and practices.

In 2024, this transformation led to a significant governance milestone as the Board of Trustees shifted from a family-rooted membership to an independent group of trustees . This also led to decisions about grant-making shifting from trustees to staff.

Changing Tudor’s governance model was a key step in our transformation, enabling the trust to develop its Change We Seek strategy.

Evolution of our strategy

At this moment in Tudor’s history, we are committed to maximising our role in UK philanthropy by helping build the power and resilience of communities.

At the heart of this is our commitment to a total asset approach, recognising that all our resources contribute to our mission, not just our grant-making. For the trust, this means valuing the strength of our people, culture and relationships with our partners, alongside how we invest our assets and redistribute capital. The Staying Brave report, authored by Stephen Bediako, Louise Mousseau, and Fancy Sinantha, supported us to reimagine what this approach could mean for Tudor.

Tudor’s Change We Seek strategy sets out a new vision "for a world as it should be," with a mission to empower communities by centring racial justice and driving systems change.

New grant-making approach

In 2025, the trust began implementing this strategy with an initial £10 million in grants through an invitation-only funding round. This approach reaffirms Tudor’s long-standing commitment to strengthening community groups, charities and grassroots initiatives by directing resources to communities most impacted by racism and other forms of discrimination.

With the Change We Seek strategy now in place, we are winding down our previous grant-making programme, through which we still fund nearly 500 organisations driving positive change in communities across the UK.

Moving forward, our grant-making will focus exclusively on the Change We Seek strategy, which is currently operating on an invitation-only basis.

You can read more about our current grant-making approach here.