Bucks Data Exchange
The BDEx is a free resource designed to help small charities in Buckinghamshire better understand the needs of the communities they serve and show the difference they’re making.
Use the BDEx to equip your organisation with the insights needed to develop services that meet people’s needs and support your fundraising. The BDEx hosts Local Insight, a free and easy-to-use platform that lets you explore data about the area you work in.
Bucks Funders
The Rothschild Foundation is a founding member of Buckinghamshire Funders, a collaborative network of individual philanthropists and private and public funders working across the county.
Through quarterly meetings, members share knowledge, insights and funding experience to build a stronger understanding of local needs and opportunities. By working together, we can respond more effectively to challenges facing Buckinghamshire’s communities and make better-informed funding decisions.
The Buckinghamshire Funders aim to:
- Encourage more investment in Buckinghamshire by facilitating a funding environment that allows local, regional, and national funders to work together effectively.
- Elevate our grant-making quality and encourage best practice in local funding through a culture of learning.
- Help the local community by sharing funding information, giving access to resources and signposting effectively.
- Enable fact-based philanthropy and help direct funds to where there is greatest need through the sharing of insights, data and evidence
- Constructively work with fundraisers and grantees, creating dialogue and simplifying processes where possible.
Collaborations Currently Initiated by the Buckinghamshire Funders Includes:
Buckinghamshire Funders is currently chaired by the Heart of Bucks Community Foundation. If you would like to find out more about the group or join, please get in touch:
Funders | Buckinghamshire Funders
Lecture Series
The Rothschild Foundation Lecture Series is an annual platform for some of the most important creative thinkers of our time to engage in discussion and debate in the Benjamin West Lecture Theatre at the Royal Academy Arts in London. The series brings together thinkers and practitioners at a time when the arts are increasingly open to conversations with other forms of thinking and approaches.
Previous lectures can be viewed using the following links:
2024 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Writer’s Unknown Beginnings
2023 – Darren Walker: The Urgency of Art: Art and Justice during a Time of Crisis
2022 – William Kentridge: Words, Ah Yes, Words
2019 – Marina Abramović Hon RA: Exploration of her work in the context of the past, present and future of performance art
2018 – Dr Demis Hassabis: Creativity and Artificial Intelligence
