The Telos Foundation
Supporting charitable organisations and their leaders to achieve and sustain success.
How The Telos Foundation makes a difference
At Telos Partners, our principles matter. That’s why in 2019 we established The Telos Foundation as a charity to help leaders to be successful within their charitable organisations and sustain that success over time.
We care about sustainable success. To support this, we provide bursaries to charity leaders and support charitable organisations leading the debate in this field.
We also facilitate impactful conversations between leaders of charities and provide grants to further research into the drivers of sustainable success.
The Telos Foundation in action
Supporting present and future leaders of charities
We provide bursaries to the leaders of charities to attend Windsor Leadership programmes at Windsor Castle.
Windsor Leadership provides transformational, experience-led leadership development programmes for senior leaders across all sectors, including not-for-profit. These challenge leaders to think differently as they strive to support ‘Exceptional Leaders, Leading for Good’.
Strengthening organisations leading the debate
We are stewards of the name and legacy of Tomorrow’s Company – an independent, non-profit think tank founded in 1996 that inspires and enables business to be a force for good.
Today, Tomorrow’s Company focuses on how the next generation learns about business and, with our support, has two pioneering programmes: the Future Skills Programme (for Key Stages 3 and 4) and Business as a Force for Good (for first-year undergraduates).
Facilitating conversations between leaders
We facilitate impactful conversations between leaders of charities as Friends of Cumberland Lodge.
Founded in 1947 to empower people to tackle social division through dialogue, Cumberland Lodge hosts multi-sector conferences, panel debates, seminars and retreats on pressing societal and ethical issues, involving people of all backgrounds, ages and perspectives.
Empowering young people to develop their skills
We support Young Enterprise, a charity that empowers young people to develop their business and personal skills.
Through its pioneering school, college and university programmes, Young Enterprise inspires young people to thrive in the fast-changing job market by equipping them with essential work skills, knowledge and confidence.
Our yearly donation supports Young Enterprise’s annual essay competition.
The Telos Foundation – our people
With experience of national and global senior leadership roles, our Board of Trustees is drawn from diverse sectors – ranging from accountancy, healthcare and education to finance and sport.
• Alan Davies, Chair and Trustee
• Peter Ward, Trustee
• Iain Cameron, Trustee
• Sarah Wright, Trustee
• Coralie Hooper, Trustee
• Jennifer Liska, Secretary
Get in touch with The Telos Foundation
To find out more about what we do please email enquiries@thetelosfoundation.org
Please note that we don’t currently encourage unsolicited applications for financial support.
The Telos Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales (No. 1183271). Registered office: Ground Floor, Admiral House, St Leonards Road, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 3BL.
Our purpose is to:
• Advance education and research for charity leaders to enable charities to sustain their services into the future in subjects relating to leadership
• Make grants and donations to charities chosen by the Trustees that are specifically recognised for their ability to design and deliver training programmes to develop the individual capabilities, competencies and understanding of future strategic leaders, to enable charities to sustain their success over the long term
• Make grants and donations to charities chosen by the Trustees that are specifically recognised for their ability to design, conduct and publish research to add to the collective knowledge of an approach to the leadership of organisations, that creates benefit for stakeholders and society through a focus on purpose, values, relationships and the long term.
The Telos Foundation owns intellectual property licensed to Telos Partners LLP and Telos Partners Group Limited.