The Patron Charitable Initiatives were established in 2010 to bring together charitable work ongoing in the Patron business and the philanthropic interests of the Breslauer family, with the following visions:

• Create positive change.
• Provide support where life prospects are impaired and empower individuals whose life prospects have become impaired to achieve their potential
• Reach out to break down barriers and promote understanding.

Updates

The COVID-19 pandemic is devastating the charities and non-profit organisations we work closely with, both in terms of a complete shutdown of traditional fundraising events creating financial shortfalls that threaten survival and the urgent and immediate need to develop means to serve beneficiaries in a lockdown environment.  This is leading us to redouble efforts to improve on all our help to change the world to a better place, activity has been intense both pre and post lockdown and we have been able to respond and provide practical and financial help in a huge variety of instances of identifiable need.

Women in Safe Homes Fund

The Women in Safe Homes Fund, believed to be the world’s first gender-lens property fund, has been created by Patron Capital with Resonance as a solution to the lack of affordable, safe, and secure homes for women who are experiencing homelessness, are, survivors of domestic abuse, or other complex needs.  With Patron’s initial anchor support of £1m, £15m+ of seed capital has been confirmed, and fundraising is ongoing with a £100 m target, agreements are in place and/or talks are progressing with a series of women’s aid charity partners and a pipeline of property has been established. This fund is massively important as it will provide homes for women in the context of COVID-19 significantly exacerbated domestic abuse with lockdown trapping women at home with their abusers.  Ensuring Patron continues to be a hugely charitable organisation by working hard to inspire and encourage the whole company, is key ethos, so we were hugely pleased by a self-started project by the Patron Admin team raised significant money to both purchase holiday gifts, for women spending the 2020 festive season in support amazing ongoing work in women’s aid as part of the fund launch.

• MacArthur Foundation invests in Patron's Women’s Safe Homes Fund
• New Property Fund Being Launched To Support Women At Risk Of Homelessness - Patron Capital - December 2020
• Patron Capital and Resonance launch world’s first gender-lens £100 million investment property fund, Women in Safe Homes, to support women experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness - December 2020
• Women in Safe Homes Fund Social Impact Report 2020-21

RMA - Royal Marines Charity

RMA - The Royal Marines Charity is almost completely reliant on public goodwill and donation and receive no government funding. Continuing lockdowns have shut down their traditional fundraising events to the point they were potentially not able to fund essential work including critical maintenance of the prosthetics many their disabled combat veterans rely on.  We created, arranged, and hosted a series of on-line interactive, briefings which brought together many of our good friends who are business and community leaders, with a panel of senior British military commanders to discuss the security environment in the context of increased volatility in global affairs. Attendees also caught up with the challenges being faced by the RMA – The Royal Marines Charity and collectively donated more than £400,000.