The organisation raises money for selected climate charities and, by working with a number of partners, tries to make “climate philanthropy” a “mainstream” area.
A UK-registered charity, Global Returns Project (GRP), has
announced its partnership with national advice firm
Attivo.
Through this partnership, Cheltenham-based Attivo will include
GRP’s selection of climate charities into its Responsible Panel,
enabling financial planners to offer high-impact climate
philanthropy as an option for sustainability-minded clients, GRP
said in a statement.
“Our approach to financial planning is ‘Life Plan First’ where we
determine what matters most to our clients, and we’d be failing
in our duty if we couldn’t help clients achieve their
value-based, non-financial objectives in this area. GRP makes it
easy to embed a contribution to climate charities into any
financial strategy, which aligns very well with our idea of
progress, discovery and change when clients require accessible
and innovative solutions to stay ahead of the ESG curve,” Stephen
Harper, chairman of Attivo, said.
Using a proprietary methodology, GRP’s trustees work with a team
of environmental scientists to select high-impact climate
mitigation charities. GRP re-assesses charities every six-months
and replaces organisations if it identifies charities performing
even more strongly. GRP sends donations to a donor’s selected
charities, with no deductions. All donors receive exclusive
impact reports, every six months, it said.
“This partnership is an important milestone for us. Attivo is the
largest financial planning firm that we have partnered with so
far, which follows other advice firms teaming up with GRP in the
last year or so. Our aim is to make climate philanthropy
mainstream in financial planning. Each partnership takes us one
step closer to our goal of creating systemic change to fund the
highest impact charities at unprecedented speed and
scale,” Jack Chellman, chief project officer, Global Returns
Project, said.
This announcement, GRP said, is the latest in a series of
partnerships with financial institutions and trade bodies
recently established, including Fundment, Titan Asset Management,
TT International, ESG Accord, Octo Members, GrowthInvest and
PIMFA.
To date, the Global Returns Project has raised more than £600,000
($758,049) for its selected climate charities. Since April 2023
GRP has already exceeded the previous financial year’s total
fundraising for its selected charities.
