William Anderson
Director
Faith-led enterprise stewardship across the UK
Quakers And Business Group
We convene directors, donors, and community leaders to turn Quaker values into measurable economic inclusion, responsible governance, and locally rooted opportunity.
Board leadership
Board Member Photos Strip
A cross-sector board guides grantmaking, stewardship, and strategic partnerships from a lived commitment to plain dealing and practical accountability.
Eleanor Marsh
Chair
Ravi Desai
Treasurer
Martha Llewellyn
Governance Lead
Jonah Beckett
Partnerships Trustee
Amina Clarke
Programmes Trustee
Shared practice
Programs
Each programme is built to connect enterprise discipline with community outcomes, and each one is reviewed against financial, social, and governance indicators.
Ethical Enterprise Circles
Quarterly peer circles for founders and executives testing supply-chain ethics, worker voice, and responsible capital decisions.
2025 delivery included 18 facilitated cohorts, a practical decision framework for procurement, and 42 participating businesses across England and Wales.
Community Wealth Labs
Hands-on advisory support for neighbourhood anchors building local hiring pipelines, trading subsidiaries, and revenue resilience.
Lab teams receive financial modelling support, trustee coaching, and links to aligned donors willing to fund transition costs.
Faith And Finance Dialogues
Public sessions bringing investors, faith groups, and local authorities into practical conversation on stewardship, risk, and place-based impact.
The series now informs our annual policy submissions and helps partner organisations translate values into board-level metrics.
Small Grants For Inclusive Trade
Targeted grants for early-stage social ventures improving access to fair work, enterprise support, and cooperative trading networks.
Grant recipients receive milestone reviews, visibility to donors, and a twelve-month governance support pathway.
Evidence and reporting
Annual Impact Report
Stewardship that moves from boardroom commitments to community outcomes
The latest report sets out programme reach, audited allocations, governance changes, and board attendance alongside outcome stories from partner organisations.
£1.8m
Funds deployed
127
Enterprises advised
31
Grants awarded
Governance
Governance Policies Grid
Conflict Of Interest Policy
Trustee declarations, annual reviews, and recusal thresholds for funding decisions.
Reserves And Risk Policy
Operating reserve levels, downside planning, and escalation triggers for material variances.
Board Attendance Code
Meeting expectations, committee accountability, and public disclosure practice.
Grant Due Diligence Standard
Assessment criteria covering mission fit, safeguarding, controls, and reporting cadence.
Financial oversight
Financial Dashboard
Budget allocation is reviewed quarterly by trustees and published in a form donors and delivery partners can understand quickly.
Budget allocation by function
Quarterly controls snapshot
- Liquidity cover: 7.4 months of core operating costs held within board-approved reserves.
- Restricted funds: 93% deployed against donor intent within the planned twelve-month cycle.
- Admin ceiling: Governance and operations remain below the 15% board threshold.
- Independent review: External financial examination scheduled before the June 2026 AGM pack.
Field insight
Case Study Spotlight
From a fragile local supplier base to a stable community-owned trading network
A manufacturing cluster in Leeds entered our programme with declining margins, weak procurement transparency, and no route for smaller community suppliers to compete. Twelve months later, the anchor buyer had rewritten its supplier terms and launched a supported onboarding route for cooperative ventures.
- 1Challenge: Procurement rules unintentionally excluded smaller mission-led suppliers from tenders.
- 2Intervention: We facilitated board workshops, cash-flow modelling, and donor-backed transition support.
- 3Outcome: Nine local suppliers secured new contracts, and average payment times fell from 54 to 24 days.
External voice
Stakeholder Testimonials
“Their board asked harder questions than our funders did, and that made our plan investable.”
Partner organisation • Community enterprise lead
“The reporting is unusually plain: I can see where each pound lands, what changed, and what still needs work.”
Donor • Family foundation trustee
“We were treated as collaborators, not beneficiaries, and that shifted how our own board now makes decisions.”
Beneficiary • Cooperative founder
Calendar
Upcoming Board Meetings/Events Timeline
14 May 2026
Board Finance Committee
Quarterly budget reforecast, reserves review, and audit preparation session.
04 June 2026
Annual General Meeting
Approval of the annual report, trustee rotation, and open stakeholder questions.
23 July 2026
Faith And Finance Dialogue
Public event on patient capital, local ownership, and measuring enterprise dignity.
17 September 2026
Autumn Grants Panel
Trustee review of inclusive trade applications and programme milestone reporting.
Donor clarity
Donor Transparency Section
Impact per pound is reported against direct outputs and longer-term systems change
We publish unit-cost indicators because donors should know both what their money buys immediately and what infrastructure it helps sustain over time.
£1
Unlocks £6.20 in follow-on local investment
£25
Funds one hour of enterprise advisory support
£250
Covers a full governance health check for one grantee
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