Tudor Trust

Who we are

Tudor is a grant-making organisation with a 70-year history of supporting voluntary organisations and community groups driving positive social change across the UK. With £230 million in assets, the trust committed £15.9 million in grants during the 2023/2024 financial year. Its assets are managed responsibly across a diverse range of funds.

In 2025, following a transformative shift in its governance structure and grant-making strategy, Tudor made its first round of grants under the new Change We Seek strategy, confirming its commitment to advance racial justice by resourcing power within communities.

Our culture and values

At Tudor, our commitment to people and culture is embedded in our behaviours framework, ensuring we remain accountable to each other and the communities we serve while staying transparent about our evolving strategy. Our behaviours - bravery, collaboration, compassion, creativity, humility, inquisitiveness, and integrity - guide how we work.

Internally, we prioritise the practices of learning and systems thinking, allowing us to adapt as our understanding of the complex, interconnected issues between different parts of the system deepens. We actively integrate this into our Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (JEDIB) principles, shaping our governance, leadership, policies, and roles.

Our behaviours

As we implement our Change We Seek strategy, we are committed to embedding JEDIB at the core of everything we do. These principles shape our organisational culture and are put into action through our behaviours. Our behaviours not only define how we work internally but also guide our relationships with staff, grant partners, and all those we collaborate with.

These are our behaviours:

• Bravery: working through challenges and difficulties in the spirit of meeting our goals.
• Collaboration: working with colleagues, grantees and trustees to actively communicate ideas, offer support, and participate in collective decision-making to achieve shared goals.
• Compassion: creating an inclusive workplace environment by respect for diversity, promoting equity and belonging and demonstration of empathy towards others' experiences and perspectives.
• Creativity: coming up with new and unique ideas or ways of doing things by using your imagination and thinking in different ways.
• Humility: being self-aware and showing modesty that enables you to understand other perspectives.
• Inquisitiveness: fostering an environment of inquiry by embracing new perspectives, engaging in ongoing exploration, and committing to continuous learning.
• Integrity: being honest and trustworthy, and to make decisions in line with our principles.