August 2023 - Steve Morgan Foundation

Steve Morgan Foundation and LFC Foundation shortlisted for international award

One of the most prestigious awards in the sporting industry has recognised the work of LFC Foundation and Steve Morgan Foundation.

The Leaders Sports Awards acknowledge industry success and achievements on a global scale with global brands highlighting their work in breaking down barriers and bringing communities together.

Steve Morgan Foundation and LFC Foundation have been shortlisted for our work within five community hubs across the Liverpool City Region.

Matt Parish, LFC Foundation Chief Executive Officer said,

“Working with a partner like Steve Morgan Foundation has been unbelievable.”

“When we started this journey just over two years ago our goal was to identify and help community centres in need and support them and the people who used those spaces.”

“With the help of Steve and his team, I’m delighted with what we’ve achieved. We’ve grown our number of people supported year on year and to provide life changing opportunities to more young people and adults.”

Liam Eaglestone, CEO of the Steve Morgan Foundation added

“We are delighted that our partnership with LFC Foundation has been shortlisted for this prestigious award.”

“We are proud of the place-based impact made by the five community hubs and we look forward to working closely with the team at LFC Foundation to extend their reach across the Liverpool City Region.”

“As a leading charitable foundation, we firmly believe that it is through long-term partnerships such as this that we can make the greatest impact and difference to those in need.”

The future now looks bright for our community hubs in Toxteth, Birkenhead, Bootle, Kirkby and Anfield with those centres being given a brand-new lease of life. They are now multi-purpose spaces, with people of all ages coming together for sport, play, to gain employability skills and training or a place to a community to gather.

Looking ahead, we will use this model to grow and expand our network of community hubs, and to reach and support more people.

Find out more about our partnership with the LFC Foundation.

View the Leaders Sports Awards Shortlist here.

Steve Morgan sixth on the Sunday Times Giving List 2023

Steve Morgan (CBE) – our Founder and Chairman of Trustees – has been named as number 6 in the Sunday Times Giving List 2023.

Sunday Times Giving List 2023

The Sunday Times Giving List, in association with the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), tracks the philanthropic activity of almost a third of 350 of Britain’s wealthiest people. It is based on the proportion of total wealth donated or pledged to charity by those who appear in the Sunday Times Rich List.

Steve Morgan CBE was named number six out of the top 100 this year, having donated an incredible £59.6 million, via the Steve Morgan Foundation.

Collectively, the top 100 gave £3.431 billion – up by more than a billion on last year’s total giving. Seven members of The Sunday Times Rich List gave more than £100 million in the past year, 42 gave £10 million or more, while 90 were members of the £1 million donors club.

Giving money away well

At the age of 21, Steve established Redrow, which grew to be one of the UK’s most successful housebuilders. But despite his obvious success in business, Steve has never forgotten his roots on some of the toughest streets in Liverpool.

It was this desire to give something back that prompted him to set up the Steve Morgan Foundation in 2001 to help bring positive change to the communities closest to his heart and beyond.

He explains: “I am enormously proud to be on the Sunday Times Giving List, not just personally but also on behalf of the team at the Steve Morgan Foundation, who work exceptionally hard not just to give money away, but to give money away well.

“We’re supporting so many great charities to help change the lives of those in greatest need, and we’re committed to working with fantastic partners that share our vision of changing lives for good. I’m proud of and thankful to our staff and trustee team for all their dedicated work.”

The Steve Morgan Foundation

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. We provide funding, support, expertise and best practice to the charities and organisations we support.

By harnessing the power of working together, we address a range of areas including poverty, homelessness, health and wellbeing, and education and training, and have helped to improve the quality of life for more than four million people.

Steve continues to prioritise the ongoing support of the Foundation alongside his business interests and has donated over £300 million to it since 2001.

You can read some of the stories from individuals and communities who have benefited from support from the Steve Morgan Foundation here.