Who we support
Create
Established in 2003, Create is the UK’s leading charity empowering lives, reducing isolation and enhancing wellbeing through the creative arts.
Create has been delivering inspiring arts opportunities with the UK’s most marginalised children, young people and adults for twenty years, focusing always on providing support where provision is poor and arts engagement is low. Its work targets those furthest from arts engagement and works collaboratively to build programmes that are both impactful and inspirational.
University of Manchester
The Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Foundation has made significant and long-term contributions to philanthropy in higher education. Rory and Elizabeth have supported the University of Manchester since 2005, both in terms of direct giving, and in particular providing funding to set up the Brooks World Poverty Institution (now the Global Development Institute) and more recently to enable GDI to take its work to a new level.
Rory is a board member and former Chair of the University’s Global Leadership Board, and currently serves as the inaugural Chair of the University’s International Advisory Board. The Foundation has also funded two large international conferences in partnership with the University of Manchester – The Johannesburg Global Poverty Summit and the Capturing the Gains Summit, co-funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
Brooks World Poverty Institute
Brooks Doctoral College
The Foundation has made a significant contribution to the creation of world-class research into global poverty through its gift to set up, and ongoing support for, the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) at the University of Manchester, one of the world’s largest cross-disciplinary centres for poverty research. The BWPI has now merged with the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) to create the Global Development Institute (GDI).
At the GDI the Foundation now funds the Brooks Doctoral College – the first of its kind to focus on postgraduate research of international development and is enabling the creation of equitable partnerships between the GDI, one of the foremost development studies research institutions globally and Universities across the developing world.
The Brooks International Fellowship at Tate
Elizabeth has previously Chaired the Tate Patrons Executive Committee, which for over 30 years has helped secure the acquisition of more than 300 works of art and supported exhibitions, education programmes, conservation and archive projects. Currently, Elizabeth serves as co-Chair of Tate’s Photography Acquisition Committee and is a member of the International Council. Rory and Elizabeth are members of the International Council.
The Brooks International Fellowship programme at Tate, now in its ninth year, enables two fully-funded curators, researchers, art historians or other museum professionals to work with Tate colleagues for six months on designated projects at Tate while participating in a residency at Delfina Foundation.
Articulation
Articulation is a national public speaking initiative, championing the appreciation and discussion of art. It enables a wide range of students aged between 14 and 23 to develop critical thinking, analysis, presentation and public speaking skills through a series of workshops to deliver the annual Articulation Prize. Working with 50 museums, galleries, universities and arts associations, over 4,000 young people from 200 schools currently take part in Articualtion events every year.
Articulation was originally established in 2006 by the Roche Court Educational Trust, an arts education charity based at the Roche Court Sculpture Park and New Art Centre in Wiltshire. In 2022 the National Gallery became the new home of Articulation where it is a key part of the National Gallery’s work to reach out to communities around the UK, playing a bigger role in the wellbeing and education of the nation.
IntoUniversity
IntoUniversity is a leading national charity supporting young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed in school and attain either a university place or another aspiration – be that an apprenticeship or a vocational qualification. IntoUniversity operates a nationwide network of community-based learning centres supporting students aged from 9 to 18.
Academic attainment is a crucial factor in determining the options available to young people when they leave school. Young people have suffered severe learning loss as a result of school closures, and those from disadvantaged backgrounds have been among those hardest hit.
Core to its model is the belief that underachievement is best addressed in the context of long-term pastoral engagement. Rory has served as a trustee of IntoUniversity since 2019 and is currently also Chair of the Campaign Committee.
Rugby Portobello Trust
The Rugby Portobello Trust is a children’s, youth and family support charity that has been supporting Rory and Elizabeth’s local community for over 135 years. In 2009 RPT merged with national charity People Potential Possibilities (P3) and Elizabeth served as a Trustee on the board of P3. RPT remains a local charity for local people and the Foundation has supported a number of projects, most currently the RPT Football Academy.
Quintessentially Foundation
Quintessentially Foundation is a grant-making and awareness raising charity that has provided over £14m to 50 aspiring charities including The Felix Project, Greenhouse Sports and The Rugby Portobello Trust. Funds have typically been raised by exciting and innovative events including the annual Bike Ride and The Fayre of St James. Rory was appointed Chair in 2021 and supports the founder Ben Elliot and CEO Joel Davis.
Following the pandemic the Foundation has refocused its efforts to support small but ambitious and scalable charities in London that help disadvantaged youth. It has launched a Patrons program and actively engages its donors in the works of its partner charities.
The CSJ Foundation
Rory is a previous Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Social Justice and an inaugural Trustee of the newly formed CSJ Foundation.
The CSJ’s mission is to put social justice at the heart of British politics. Much of its knowledge is generated by the CSJ Alliance, a nationwide network of over 300 grassroots charities that are helping people who are experiencing poverty. The Alliance charities gives the CSJ a unique understanding into what is actually happening in the real world.
The CSJ Foundation was created in 2021 to generate and direct philanthropic giving to charities in the Alliance thereby strengthening the bonds between the CSJ and Alliance members and helping them to sustain and expand their operations.
The Platinum Jubilee Pageant
The Trustees of the Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Foundation are proud to support The Platinum Jubilee Pageant, in celebration of Her Majesty The Queen’s 70-year reign.
Whitley Fund for Nature
The Whitley Fund for Nature is a UK based fundraising and grant-giving nature conservation charity that provides funding, training and recognition to wildlife conservationists working across countries in the Global South, that are rich in biodiversity but lacking in the financial resources to safeguard it. Through Whitley Awards presented annually by Patron, HRH The Princess Royal, local environmental heroes acting on the latest science receive the backing they need to create and scale up lasting benefits for wildlife, climate, landscapes, and people. The Awards raise the awareness of their vital work around the globe.