About the LSEG Foundation
The LSEG Foundation helps communities access economic opportunities and build a secure financial future. Working with charity and NGO partners, the LSEG Foundation delivers economic empowerment programmes around the world focusing on education, employment and enterprise. Support is focused where it has the greatest local impact, varying by geography and need. Alongside this, the LSEG Foundation also funds disaster relief charities and non-commercial sustainable economy partnerships.
The LSEG Foundation delivers its mission through funding a portfolio of charitable partners grouped into four main pillars:
Strategic: multi-year, international high-impact partnerships delivering economic empowerment programmes across the world.
Regional: annual project and volunteering grants to a range of regional and locally selected charities, tackling the issues that matter most in the communities where we operate.
Sustainable economy: non-commercial initiatives which support the development of a sustainable economy.
Disaster relief: partnerships with disaster relief and specialist charities during times of crisis, to help communities respond, adapt and recover.
LSEG Foundation governance
The LSEG Foundation is a charitable incorporated organisation registered with and regulated by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. As an independent grant-making charity, it is governed by a dedicated trustee board currently comprising six internal and two independent trustees. The quarterly Board meetings are chaired by LSEG’s Chief People Officer.
Day-to-day management of the charity is the responsibility of the Head of the LSEG Foundation, who is supported by a dedicated team, supplemented by other subject matter experts from across LSEG who provide part-time support to the LSEG Foundation.
Proposals for new strategic partnerships are developed by the LSEG Foundation management team and prospective partners are invited to apply and present to the Board of Trustees. The proposal is then assessed and determined by the Board.
Prospective regional charity partners apply for grants during an annual application window, after which applications are assessed using a scorecard approach, on factors such as its alignment with the LSEG Foundation’s objectives, clarity on programme delivery and impact measurement, and level of engagement across LSEG communities.
Three regional charity committees evaluate funding requests across the Americas, Asia Pacific and EMEA. Community action teams operate across 30+ LSEG office locations and activate colleague engagement, volunteering and fundraising. Additionally, charity ambassadors act as a bridge between charity partners and the LSEG Foundation.
Our strategic partners
In 2025, the LSEG Foundation selected four multi-year strategic partners (for the 2025-2027 period):
2025 impact
In 2021 LSEG Foundation set a goal to positively support and impact 1 million lives by 2030, by activities funded through LSEG Foundation grants since 2022. The impact of programme funding has accelerated rapidly and at the end of 2025, LSEG Foundation passed that number, positively supporting a cumulative total of 1,097,845 lives. To reflect the success of the programme, the LSEG Foundation has doubled its ambition, aiming to positively impact two million lives by the end of 2030.
In 2025, LSEG Foundation granted £3,941,566 to 140 charity partners in its portfolio, across more than 30 delivery countries, plus a further £563,521 of matched funding for employee donations and fundraising.
Strategic, regional and sustainable economy partners are required to track and report annually on the impact of their work on behalf of LSEG Foundation. Impact data is collected through dedicated impact reporting questionnaires, charity impact reports and bespoke interviews for larger grants. This data is collected, collated and validated by a third party on behalf of LSEG Foundation.
Key outcomes in 2025 included:
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21,887teachers and coaches trained
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1,505people helped into employment
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1,638enterprises set up and supported (697 by women)
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7,899people supported with education
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263,617people supported with financial literacy and/or numeracy training
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72,876people supported with vocational training
Colleague volunteering
LSEG Foundation encourages colleagues to get involved through a range of engagement opportunities, with volunteering playing a central role in connecting employees to the LSEG Foundation’s work and charity partners.
We have a set a long-term goal for 50% of colleagues to participate in volunteering annually by 2030.
In 2025, 32% of the workforce (8,518 colleagues) took part in volunteering activities, reflecting an increase of 6% compared to previous years. Collectively, this totalled 82,718 volunteer hours across LSEG in 2025. This increase has been driven by an expansion of our global volunteering platform, increased promotion of skills-based volunteering opportunities and the introduction of new team-based volunteering opportunities.
LSEG Foundation charity partners continued to be the main beneficiaries of this volunteering activity, with 63% of regional charity partners having LSEG colleagues volunteer on their behalf during the year.
From 2025, the beneficiary impact of this volunteering activity is also being tracked and published as part of LSEG Foundation’s annual metrics.