Steve Morgan Foundation - Charitable Foundation Providing Funding, Support and Advice

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Steve Morgan Foundation 2024 Awards finalists on stage

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Liverpool FC Foundation St Helen's Hub launch funded by Steve Morgan Foundation

Steve and Sally Morgan on a Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge lab tour

Sally and Steve Morgan with Dr Victoria Salem, Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge Senior Research Fellow

About us

The Steve Morgan Foundation is passionately committed to changing lives for good, by working with partners that make a positive difference to those in need. Founded in 2001 by businessman and philanthropist, Steve Morgan CBE, we provide funding, support, expertise and best practice to the charities and organisations we support. By harnessing the power of working together, we’re proud to have helped hundreds of local charities improve millions of lives across our region.

But the problems we face today are deeper than ever. Despite everyone’s best efforts, too many people still struggle with social disadvantage – poverty, poor health and limited opportunities. As we approach our 25th anniversary, now is the time for meaningful change and a new strategic direction. We are significantly scaling up the our philanthropic work by implementing a new, innovative strategy to our funding and grant making to create lasting solutions for our communities.

#ChangingLivesForGood

£300m

Donated by founder since 2001

10m +

Individuals
supported

2,500 +

Grants
 awarded

£100m +

Awarded to our strategic partners

Our £100m funding pledge

We have pledged £100 million over the next five years (2025 – 2030) to kick-start the next 25 years in the Foundation’s work of changing lives for good.

This £100 million will be focused on tackling the root causes of social disadvantage in our region and will support projects that improve education, expand access to provision and increase employment opportunities. Through collaborating with key strategic partners, providing long-term funding to our associate partners and offering regional grants, our aim is to break the cycle of social disadvantage so everyone has a fair chance at a good life.

We will continue to invest in groundbreaking research into a cure for Type 1 diabetes, a cause that is close to our hearts.

By combining our financial resources with our expertise and energy, we will work strategically and consistently to create lasting regional impact with national influence.

Steve’s story

Steve Morgan is an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and Chairman of Bridgemere. At the age of 21 he established Redrow, which he grew to be a FTSE 250 company, and one of the UK’s most successful homebuilders. Steve stepped down as Chairman of Redrow in 2019 having guided the business to record levels of trading and profitability, with a turnover of £2.1 billion and profit before tax of £406 million. He founded the Steve Morgan Foundation in 2001, which is one of the largest funding charities in the UK. Steve has personally donated over £300 million to date. In 1992 Steve received an OBE for Services to the Construction Industry and, in 2016, received a CBE for Philanthropic Services.

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Our strategic partnerships

Strong relationships lie at the heart of everything we do at the Foundation and we relish working with like-minded strategic partners to best achieve our vision of changing lives for good. Through our work with both large national, and local organisations, we believe that the greatest impact and difference to those in need is realised by working together over the long term. We work alongside our strategic partners to achieve our joint ambitions and goals; we share our expertise, knowledge and best practice, in addition to funding to ensure that our joint impact can be maximised.