We recognise that as a funder we have more assets than just the money we distribute. We have the ability to share the work we do with other funders who may not currently support work in the areas we focus on. We also are able to identify strengths and weaknesses in the portfolios we have and find ways of bringing together organisations with shared interests, challenges or who are doing new and interesting things that others may benefit from hearing about.

Running an organisation comes with many challenges and we want to provide grantees with help in this area alongside our grant funding. Since 2020 we have been working with Cranfield Trust to support our grantees and in 2021 we launched the Spark Programme.

This provides free consultancy and mentoring support to grantees during their funding period to help support long-term growth and resilience. All grantees also participate in Peer2Peer Exchanges with other groups of grantees which provide opportunities to learn from each other and hopefully develop some new ideas and ways of working.

Triangle Trust also works with Upshot to support our grantees with their approaches to Mentoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL). MEL is critical to any successful programme and is the basis for measuring impact to enable organisations to drive social change. The Upshot system helps grantees collect and manage data, monitor progress in real time, measure impact effectively and evidence the stories about their impact.

Triangle Trust is always looking at new and different ways of adding additional value to our grant funding and we are excited about the possibilities this provides to share and learn. We also know that brilliant charities are made up of brilliant people who sometimes need some additional help to take the organisation on the next stage of its journey.