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PREVIOUS PROJECTS
GMT has worked on a variety of projects for different clients. Check out some of our more recent projects.
FRiends Provident Foundation
GMT is currently working with Friends Provident Foundation (FPF) to measure and map its impact. This bespoke measurement system is being designed to ensure that the Foundation’s goals are implemented in a consistent way across all areas of its organisation – from investment policies to the grants that it funds.
We have worked with Sylvia from Green McLain Turner on a range of projects and have found her professional, creative, receptive to feedback and timely in the production of outputs. She is content to work iteratively in a way that enables effective co-production and outputs that meet sometimes evolving client needs. She used numeracy and problem solving skills to work with staff at all levels to develop effective solutions. — Danielle Walker Palmour, Director, Friends Provident Foundation.
Foundation Practice Rating
The Foundation Practice Rating (FPR) is an initiative that rates UK grant-giving foundations on diversity, accountability and transparency in order to incentivize change in their practices in these areas. It was designed as an external intervention, which uses only publicly available information about the foundations in order to rate them on their practices. Sylvia, at GMT, worked with Giving Evidence and a group of funders headed by Friends Provident Foundation to develop the methodology used in the FPR. The criteria used were drawn from existing standards of good practice under the pillars of diversity, accountability and transparency – from the government guidelines to transparency initiatives like Glasspockets and the Association of Charitable Foundations. These objective criteria were used to formulate a rating system which gives the included foundations a letter grade (A, B, C or D) on their performances in each individual pillar as well as an overall score.
Royal Patronage ANALYSIS
Over 1200 UK charities have Royal patrons. By having a Royal patron, a charity might expect greater economic and publicity benefits from Royal visits. Sylvia, at GMT, teamed up with Giving Evidence see if this were the case. Using quantitative methods, we found that most charities with Royal patrons do not get any visits from their patrons. In 2019, 74% of UK-registered patronized charities had not a single visit from their patron. Only 1% of the charities actually visited by their patron have more than a single visit in a year. Although there are some charities with Royal patrons that get many more visits, these are almost always the charities that were set up by the Royals in the first place. Charities set up by the Royals are 2% of the all of the Royal-patronized charities yet they comprised 36% of the Royals’ public engagements with any patronised charity in 2019. We also found that there is no clear relationship between having a Royal patron and an increase in revenue. You can read more about the Royal project by downloading th report below:
london funders
GMT worked with London Funders to capture the key insights from their Festival of Learning, held in May 2022. The Festival of Learning conference is a two week long conference that brings London-based charities together to discuss new and innovative practices in collaboration, community, equity, process and place. Capturing these insights is key to understanding how to improve best practice to better deliver to the communities that these charities serve.
