Our Impact

Programmes and initiatives launched by the Trust

Disbursing over £7 million to charitable causes in the UK and developing world

The Utkrisht Development Impact Bond

An early intervention programme designed to improve the quality of healthcare for pregnant women and newborns in Rajasthan, India.

  • ECD
  • 2018

Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

A research centre focusing on solving fundamental mathematical problems and the methodology for processing data.

  • STEM
  • 2016

Hope and Homes for Children

An initiative in South Africa designed to desinstitutionalise children by closing orphanages, preventing family separation, and putting in place alternative family-based care for children who need it.

  • ECD
  • 2016
About the UBS Optimus Foundation

One to One Children's Fund

A project aiming to reduce child mortality rates by training local communities to provide quality home-based care and support for children and their families in South Africa.

  • ECD
  • 2015

The Power of Nutrition

A global initiative designed to speed up the end of childhood undernutrition by intervening in the countries most affected by this issue.

  • ECD
  • 2015

The Turner-Kirk Fellowship Programme

A fellowship programme at the University of Oxford aimed at supporting a wide spectrum of zoological research projects across Africa and South-East Asia.

  • Conservation
  • 2013

The Turner-Kirk Visiting Fellowship

The Trust endowed the Isaac Newton Institute to launch the Turner-Kirk Fellowship to bring some of the world’s most acclaimed mathematicians to Cambridge.

  • STEM
  • 2013

SolarAid – The ‘SunnyMoney Brains’ Unit

Launching SolarAid’s new innovation hub in Kenya to find new sustainable trading models to distribute solar lights across sub-Saharan Africa.

  • STEM
  • 2013