Summary

Acumen is a global non-profit organisation that tackles poverty by investing in social enterprises serving low-income communities. It provides long-term patient capital alongside leadership development and ecosystem support to help entrepreneurs scale businesses that expand access to energy, agriculture, healthcare, education and dignified work.

Impact

With the support of the Seneca Trust, Acumen has achieved the following outcomes:

• Reached more than 719 million people globally through investments in social enterprises and related ecosystem initiatives.
• Trained 188 social entrepreneurs across eight regions through Acumen Academy. Its flagship fellowship program, known as ‘The Foundry’, forms part of a global alumni community of 1,998 leaders whose ventures collectively impact around 62 million lives.
• Disbursed $1.1m to 25 Acumen Angels awardees in 2025 to support business scaling, job creation and follow-on investment.
• Invested $9.5m in 2025 as part of a $194m patient capital portfolio spanning 212 companies.
• Advanced programs in clean energy (including the Pioneer Energy Investment Initiative and Hard-to-Reach Energy), climate-resilient agriculture (Trellis), education, gender equity and dignified work.
• Strengthened sector knowledge through research publications, convenings and participation in international development forums.

Summary

Camp Simcha is a lifeline for Jewish families facing serious childhood illness, providing culturally sensitive, whole-family support bringing stability and hope during their most difficult times.

Impact

Through the support of the Seneca Trust, Camp Simcha has over 2025:

• Strengthened the resilience and wellbeing of 1,640 family members across 283 Jewish families facing serious childhood illness.
• Delivered over 14,000 hours of family liaison and social work, 3,500 hours of respite care and 1,880 therapeutic sessions.
• Provided essential practical relief, including 3,821 crisis meals and 4,574 hospital transport journeys at critical moments.
• Mobilised 126,000+ volunteer hours to support families at home, in hospital and at events.
• Improved emotional wellbeing for parents and siblings through peer networks, mental health support and seven condition-specific Communities of Support.

Summary

Africa Food for Thought is a South African charity that provides food security and related support to children and vulnerable families, offering daily meals and educational assistance to thousands of those in need.

Impact

With the Seneca Trust’s support, Africa Food for Thought (“AFFT”) has:

• Supported four Early Childhood Development centres (preschools and day care centres), providing daily nutrition and learning support to 168 young children.
• Delivered 11,592 nutritious meals per month.
• Enabled facility upgrades, staff salary stability, and improved hygiene standards at preschools.
• Supported 15 vulnerable families (123 individuals) with monthly food parcels and mentorship.

Summary

People with profound and multiple learning disabilities (“PMLD”) are often excluded from cultural events because venues are not designed around complex sensory, communication and care needs.

Spiral House responds directly to this by creating an immersive, sensory-led daytime nightclub experience built for people with PMLD and the carers, friends and family who support them.

Impact

With the support of the Seneca Trust, Frozen Light managed to:

• Deliver a sold-out Spiral House event at the North Wall Arts Centre in Oxford, UK, for people with PMLD and their carers, friends and families.
• Reach 87 attendees and provided multiple sensory experiences across the venue, including interactive music, storytelling, art-making, one-to-one performance, and a live band/day-rave space.
• Reduce barriers with access-led provision (Mobiloo accessible toilet, picnic area, and an indoor chill-out space).
• Make 100% of survey respondents of people who attended the event feel safe and welcomed.
• Build momentum for continuation, with plans to re-stage Spiral House in June 2026.

Summary

Global Symbols is a UK based Community Interest Company that advances inclusive communication for people who rely on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (“AAC”). It provides a free, open platform where educators, therapists, developers, families and AAC users can discover, create and publish culturally relevant symbol sets, supporting communication access across education, healthcare and daily life.

Impact

Through the support of the Seneca Trust, Global Symbols has:

• Reached 288,143 platform users globally in 2025, representing a 20.58% increase compared with 2024.
• Increased Board Builder usage by 57.47%, reflecting growing demand for accessible tools that allow users to create their own communication materials.
• Advanced the Symbol Creator AI, enabling users to generate context specific, culturally relevant AAC symbols that address gaps in existing symbol libraries.
• Expanded international uptake across Europe, North America and Latin America.
• Maintained open access AAC infrastructure used by educators, therapists, families and developers worldwide.

Summary

Screen Share is a UK-based charity that tackles digital exclusion by providing refugees and people seeking asylum with access to essential digital technology, enabling education, employment and connection.

Impact

With support from the Seneca Trust, Screenshare has enabled:

• Refugees and people seeking asylum to access education and learning. 91% of those who received a device took part in further study and 763 courses have been applied to or completed.
• Pathways into employment, with 872 job applications completed using donated laptops.
• Digital confidence, with 87% of recipients reporting increased confidence using technology.
• Amplified Indigenous-led conservation voices from the region, including an article by John Aini of Ailan Awareness on biocultural diversity in Papua New Guinea.
• Reduction in isolation by allowing people in asylum accommodation to stay connected and communicate with family and support networks.

Summary

Synchronicity Earth’s Biocultural Diversity Programme supports Indigenous Peoples and local communities to defend their lands, waters and territories, sustain living cultures and influence conservation governance across 18 countries. The programme is grounded in the understanding that biodiversity cannot be protected without the leadership, rights and knowledge of the communities who steward many of the world’s most ecologically vital landscapes.

Impact

The Biocultural Diversity Programme has:

• Awarded GBP 969,288 to support 15 partners across 18 countries. Of these partners, 93% received multi-year grants.
• Supported Indigenous Peoples to register and manage 163 customary territories, meaning lands and waters governed under traditional community systems.
• Enabled 1,650 people to challenge destructive activities or defend their rights.
• Provided support to 27 Indigenous leaders through Indigenous-led funds, which direct resources through mechanisms shaped and governed by Indigenous leadership.
• Completed a strategic refresh focused on strengthening support for Indigenous and locally led networks.

Summary

Synchronicity Earth’s Congo Basin Programme supports Indigenous Peoples and local communities to protect one of the world’s most critical ecosystems in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It focuses on securing land rights, strengthening locally led conservation, and building resilient livelihoods in a region under increasing pressure from extractive industries and conflict.

Impact

The Congo Basin Programme has:

• Supported 21 partners across the region with over GBP 1m in funding in 2025, with 95% receiving core support.
• Secured and mapped 439,401 hectares of community forest in the Congo Basin since 2017, including 131,434 hectares in 2025.
• Strengthened local leadership, with 81% of partners African organisations and 67% receiving capacity building support.
• Trained 11,587 people in sustainable livelihoods and conservation approaches.
• Enabled communities to secure and manage 76% of legally recognised lands for Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
• Provided emergency and flexible support to partners operating in high risk contexts, including conflict affected areas in Eastern DRC.

Summary

Synchronicity Earth’s Freshwater Programme works to protect highly threatened rivers, lakes and wetlands by backing local conservation action, advancing scientific knowledge and strengthening collaboration across the freshwater sector. Its work responds to the long-standing neglect of freshwater ecosystems, which are essential to water security, food systems, livelihoods and cultural life.

Impact

The Freshwater Programme has:

• Supported 21 partners across 13 countries in 2025.
• Enabled the International Union for Conservation of Nature Biodiversity Assessment and Knowledge Team to deliver the first global Red List assessment of freshwater fauna.
• Advanced sustainable freshwater fisheries as a conservation tool through partners in Brazil, Peru, Thailand and Malaysia.
• Contributed to freshwater policy outcomes at the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress in 2025, where Synchronicity Earth and its partners co-sponsored, supported and provided input to eight of the 13 freshwater resolutions adopted.
• Convened funders, practitioners, researchers and Indigenous Peoples and local communities to raise the profile of freshwater conservation.

Summary

Working across Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and the Cook Islands, Synchronicity Earth’s Melanesia Programme supports Indigenous Peoples and local communities to steward the lands, waters and cultures of Melanesia. Launched in 2025, it brings terrestrial and marine work together under a single framework in one of the world’s most biologically and culturally diverse regions.

Impact

The Melanesia Programme has:

• Supported nine partners across two countries and the Cook Islands in 2025.
• Supported Port Moresby Nature Park, through its International Union for Conservation of Nature Centre for Species Survival, to host its first networking event on species gaps, national pledges and priorities for 2026 in Papua New Guinea.
• Supported Ailan Awareness, a Papua New Guinea-based organisation, to secure a solar panel for its environmental education centre, Solwara Skul, meaning Saltwater School.
• Amplified Indigenous-led conservation voices from the region, including an article by John Aini of Ailan Awareness on biocultural diversity in Papua New Guinea.
• Established a regional strategy that brings together marine and terrestrial conservation under one framework.

Summary

Working in the Lower Kinabatangan landscape in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, Synchronicity Earth’s More Than Carbon partnership with Hutan supports long-term forest restoration that reconnects fragmented habitat for wildlife. Combining reforestation, women’s employment, community nurseries and ecological monitoring, the partnership helps strengthen biodiversity, local livelihoods and long-term climate resilience.

Impact

More Than Carbon has:

• Supported Hutan’s all-female reforestation team to plant 254,085 trees across 13 reforestation sites in the Kinabatangan landscape since 2008.
• Supported the planting of 71,443 native trees in the Genting Wildlife Corridor between 2019 and the end of 2025.
• Supported a 2025 reforestation team made up of 25 women from the local community, alongside two drivers, with a further 10 women taking part in a paid internship programme.
• Enabled Hutan to relocate its nursery to a flood-safe site after severe flooding, with more than 10,000 saplings in the nursery by the end of 2025.
• Supported wildlife monitoring in the Genting Wildlife Corridor, where camera traps recorded frequent use by orangutans and elephants and detected bearded pigs for the first time since the 2020 African Swine Fever outbreak.

Summary

Working across 13 countries, Synchronicity Earth’s Ocean Programme supports locally led and strategic action on some of the ocean’s most overlooked conservation challenges. It combines research, advocacy and grassroots support to protect threatened marine species and ecosystems, while championing the role of coastal communities and Indigenous knowledge in ocean stewardship.

Impact

The Ocean Programme has:

• Supported 26 partners across 13 countries, with 54% receiving multi-year funding.
• Contributed to improved protection for 9,120 hectares of ocean from destructive activities through partner work.
• Delivered two capacity-building workshops supporting 44 academics and conservationists working on seagrass, sharks and rays in Southeast Asia.
• Used Synchronicity Earth’s accredited status at the United Nations Ocean Conference to provide attendance badges to four representatives from Ocean Voices, a platform supporting more diverse and locally grounded perspectives in ocean policy spaces.
• Continued to support advocacy that contributed to the High Seas Treaty entering into force on 17 January 2026.