LSEG Foundation
The LSEG Foundation is a grant-making charity which helps people from underserved communities access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence.
About the LSEG Foundation
The LSEG Foundation has a goal to positively support and impact 1 million lives by 2030.
The LSEG Foundation helps people from underserved communities access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence.
Working with charity and NGO partners, the LSEG Foundation delivers a range of programmes across the globe enabling economic empowerment through education, employment and enterprise.
Support is focused where it has the greatest local impact, varying by geography and need. In some countries that can mean helping girls stay in school for longer, as part of a wider strategy to address gender inequality and community education. In other countries it could focus on increasing financial literacy in children, guiding young adults into secure work, reskilling for a fresh start, supporting social mobility or encouraging entrepreneurship.
Alongside this, the LSEG Foundation funds non-commercial initiatives which unlock finance to drive a just transition to a net zero economy. It also partners with disaster relieve and specialist charities during times of crisis, to help communities respond, adapt and recover.
The LSEG Foundation receives its funding through LSEG plc donations, LSE fines and corporate and colleague fundraising. It delivers its mission through funding a portfolio of charitable partners grouped into three main pillars: strategic partners; regional partners; and sustainable economy partners.
LSEG Foundation governance
The LSEG Foundation is an independent entity regulated by the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1182952.). It is governed by a Board comprising six internal and two independent trustees.
For more information on the LSEG Foundation, including governance and grant selection process, please visit the Sustainability Report 2024.
Our strategic partners
These are multi-year, high-impact partnerships delivering economic empowerment programmes across the world. Our strategic partners are detailed below.
Room to Read
Room to Read’s mission is to create a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality; it helps children in historically low-income communities develop literacy skills and by supporting girls as they build skills and stay in education. Through the LSEG Foundation’s funding it has developed financial literacy interventions at scale in Bangalore, support girls through crisis in Sri Lanka and expand the charity’s footprint in the Philippines.
Skills Builder
Skills Builder aims to build the essential skills of individuals throughout their lives in education and employment. The LSEG Foundation partnership has facilitated the expansion of its Global Accelerator Programme in more schools, further its partnerships with NGOs (to incorporate the Skills Builder framework) and create policy-level changes in countries across the world, including: the UK, Lebanon, Malaysia, India, South Africa, US, Australia, Uganda and Kenya.
Women’s World Banking
Women’s World Banking works to expand the economic assets, participation, and power of low-income women and their households by helping them access financial services, knowledge, and markets. LSEG Foundation has supported its continued efforts to empower women entrepreneurs in India, Mexico and Nigeria.
Girls Who Code
Girls Who Code works to close the gender gap in technology and computer science by inspiring more girls to become computer scientists and engineers. LSEG Foundation’s funding has expanded the charity’s free summer immersion programmes for students from across the world, enabling them to explore computer science in an education and employment context.
LSEG Foundation will also be funding the charity’s self-paced online computer science courses, which introduces students to web development and provides them with intermediate cybersecurity training.
Regional partners
The LSEG Foundation provides annual project and volunteering grants to a range of regional and locally selected charities, tackling the issues that matter most in the communities where we operate.
Sustainable-economy partners
These are non-commercial initiatives which unlock finance to drive a transition to a net zero economy. Our sustainable economy partners are detailed below.
| London School of Economics | IFRS Foundation | Chapter Zero | UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative (UN SSE) |
| LSEG Foundation is supporting the London School of Economics’ TPI Global Climate Transition Centre. This provides free and publicly available in-depth data on how companies are aligning with a net zero pathway, significantly scaling existing coverage across global equity markets. | LSEG Foundation is contributing to the IFRS Foundation’s ISSB Programme, which works to deliver a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability-related disclosure standards. These provide investors and other capital market participants with information about companies’ sustainability-related risks and opportunities to help them make informed decisions. | Chapter Zero aims to build a community of Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) globally, supporting them with skills and knowledge development on the strategic implications of climate change. LSEG Foundation funding has developed a toolkit to upskill NEDs on a range of topics from climate awareness to climate action. | UN SSE supports exchanges with the provision of training on climate transition plans to their network of issuers. LSEG Foundation funding has focused on the Climate Transition Plan education programme, for listed companies globally. |
Our disaster relief partners
The LSEG Foundation also partners with disaster relief and specialist charities during times of crisis, to help communities respond, adapt and recover.
The LSEG Foundation’s impact in 2024
The LSEG Foundation partnered with Amigos Dos Bem, supporting a group of socially vulnerable students in the northeastern dryland region of Alagoas in Brazil, through a transformational educational programme providing quality teaching, transportation, food security and classroom materials.
LSEG Foundation funding for Skillsbuilder partnership continued to focus on expanding its Global Accelerator Programme in 2024 to over 50 schools across the world, including skills learning integration into national curriculums and providing direct local teacher support, including the featured school in Bengaluru, India.
Read more about the LSEG Foundation and its impact in 2024 in LSEG’s Sustainability Report 2024