Our friends, partners and funders

We work closely with a broad range of partners from different sectors, from influential businesses to social enterprises, non-profits and foundations, governments and academic institutions that share our purpose of reinventing the way the world works.

We were the first non-profit organisation set up to work alongside, rather than against, business, and to help business do better by being better. Twenty five years on and we work with some of the world's most influential businesses, helping them deliver and refine the case for putting sustainability at the heart of their corporate strategies and relationships.

Over the years we’ve helped create myriad new partnerships, coalitions and organisations, all accelerating the big shift to a sustainable future. Together we represent a force of trailblazers ready and willing to create new ways of doing things and to transform the systems we all use and depend on.

There are many ways to get involved with Forum.

Become a Friend of Forum or a Partner

Friends of Forum make a contribution to support our work and receive a number of benefits in recognition. Our work with our Partners supports them to develop and deliver trailblazing sustainability strategies, design and convene collaborations to drive system change no critical sustainability challenge, and equip people to drive change.

Join one of our System Change Collaborations

Forum convenes multi-stakeholder system change collaborations that help to address critical global challenges.

Support our work

We are supported by a wide range of businesses, trusts & foundations and individuals who believe in our work.

Partners in 2022 included:

The 3M Foundation

AIM-Progress

Air New Zealand

Ahold Delhaize

Amazon

Aviva Investors

Belron International

Bentley Motors

Betty & Taylors of Harrogate

Betty Lawes Foundation, the grant making charity associated with Volac International

BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt

The Body Shop

Burberry

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch)

Capgemini

Cargill

Chanel

Coca-Cola Europe

The Crown Estate

David Rockefeller Fund

Diageo

Drax

Drosos Foundation

EDF Energy

Estee Lauder Companies

Flipkart

FTI Consulting

Gate One

H&M

Hat Trick Productions

Henkel

The Hershey Company

Inter-American Development Bank

International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association

Jebsen & Jessen Pte Ltd

John Lewis Partnership

Johnson & Johnson

Kering

Kimberly-Clark

KR Foundation

Luminate

Marine Conservation Society

Missouri Foundation for Health

Mondelez

Nestlé

NHS Trust Development Authority

The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)

Oak Foundation

OFI

Omidyar Network

Oxford Farming Conference

Panorama Global

Pearson

Pfizer

Prorustica Ltd

PSC Consulting

Pukka Herbs

Pure Table Top

The Purpose Factory

Robert Bosch Stiftung

Saint-Gobain

SC Johnson

SED Fund

Siemens

SIG Combibloc

Singapore Economic Development Board

Sir Alan and Lady Jane Parker

Sky

Small Foundation

Social Alpha

Stuart Fletcher

Suma Wholefoods

Textile Exchange

Travalyst

Treebeard Trust

Unilever

Volac

The Waterloo Foundation

Wates

Wates Family Enterprise Trust

Willmott Dixon

WBCSD

WWF

Zalando

Zoological Society of London

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