This year’s event provides ample opportunity for our sponsors to connect with delegates.
Our Official Partners
Cazenove Charities is the largest charity investment manager in the UK and is delighted to partner with ACF. The team has a track record of generating strong risk adjusted returns supported by the investment resource at Schroders. A dedicated team of charity specialists work with each of our clients to meet their financial and social objectives.
We are confident that we have the capabilities and resource to meet your foundation’s investment requirements, whatever your size and purpose.
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For over 50 years, Mercer has been partnering with endowments and foundations to build innovative, resilient and agile portfolios that are aligned to their mission and designed to deliver their individual governance and investment needs.
Mercer does this by leveraging their investment advisory heritage, its deep knowledge of the global investment universe, and its capabilities across research, advice and solutions.
As a partner to endowment and foundation portfolios, Mercer looks beyond any single perspective on the investment landscape to pursue outcomes that address today’s investment challenges and importantly, prepare its clients for the future. Find out more.
Our Corporate Partners
Bates Wells is a top tier UK charity and philanthropy law firm. Philanthropists come to Bates Wells for their intricate understanding of charity law and practical advice. Their specialist philanthropy advisors help individuals, corporate organisations and families to fulfil their philanthropic ambitions by providing astute and clear advice, rooted in decades of experience in the charity sector. They are ranked in the top band for charities by both independent legal directories, Chambers UK and Legal 500.
Farrer & Co have been providing cutting edge charity law advice to charities and not-for-profit organisations for nearly as long as they have existed. Farrer & Co anticipate regulation, help charities contend with the repercussions of ongoing political change, manage reputations in the hostile media environment and provide clear direction in a crisis. Their advice is commercial and to the point, assisting senior leadership teams and trustees in decision-making. Their values mean they gain their clients' trust, always strive to do the right thing, and aim for the best results.
Our sponsors
At CAF Bank, we are all about banking with purpose. We are dedicated to meeting the banking needs of charities and social enterprises and, assisted by our experienced customer services team, we support organisations of all sizes and cause areas – from micro charities to the UK’s best-known charitable and social purpose organisations.
Stop by their stand at the ACF conference 2025 to meet:
Explore their useful resources and article in the meantime:
Unity Trust Bank is an award-winning, commercial bank whose purpose is to help create a better society, not simply maximise profits.
With offices in Birmingham, Manchester and London, a UK-based call centre and a national network of relationship managers, Unity offers a range of banking services.
Customer deposits are only used to support organisations that make a difference to society. Every loan proposal is aligned against one or more of the UN sustainable development goals to ensure the bank’s financing delivers quantifiable impact.
➡️ Unity Trust Bank receives Investment Grade credit rating
➡️ Unity becomes first UK bank to invest in Local Climate Bonds
CCLA believes investment markets can only be as healthy as the communities and environment that supports them. We are committed to working with our clients and the investment industry towards a new era of promoting the common good through our distinctive approach to what we describe as 'good investment' - pushing for change on climate, addressing modern day slavery and other human rights injustices, and engaging with companies regarding the mental health of their workforces. For nearly two decades, CCLA has supported the Association of Charitable Foundations as they have sought to strengthen the vital work of trusts and foundations so they are ready and resilient for whatever the future might hold. CCLA Investment Management Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
At Ruffer, we have a distinctive approach to investing which we believe is well suited to the needs and goals of charities and their trustees.
We focus on delivering ‘all weather’ investment returns and protecting and growing the value of our client’s assets throughout the market cycle. Instead of following benchmarks, we aim not to lose money in any single year and to deliver a return significantly greater than the risk-free alternative of cash on deposit.
By aiming to avoid the cyclical gyrations of the market, we aspire to provide a less volatile experience for our charity clients.
If you would like to arrange a time to talk to Ruffer during the exhibition, please email Charles Lynne at [email protected].
Blackbaud is the leading provider of software built to power social impact. From grant management with Blackbaud Grantmaking™, peer-to-peer fundraising with JustGiving corporate impact with YourCause® and donor stewardship with Raiser’s Edge NXT™ - Blackbaud supports the entire social good community.
Stop by their stand at the ACF conference 2025 to explore Blackbaud Grantmaking™ - a purpose-built solution that streamlines the entire grant lifecycle. From receiving online applications to evaluating impact and sharing outcomes, it brings everything together in one efficient platform.
The first AI for grant management.
Foundations across the country think this has been 'transformational'. Read more or stop by their stand at the ACF conference 2025 to learn about how AI can also modernise your grant process!
In the meantime, see how they are approaching the challenges of growing demand for grant-makers:
Which grant management system?