Our Supporters

Heathrow

Heathrow is Europe’s biggest airport, welcoming over 78 million passengers a year. Our ground-breaking partnership with Heathrow launched in October 2018 and ran until the end of 2020, during which time we enabled thousands of passengers and colleagues to support low-income entrepreneurs around the world through loans to develop their business ideas into solutions to address the problem of poverty.

Pentland Brands

Pentland Brands is a global family business bringing some of the most loved active and footwear brands to millions of people around the world. In May 2018, Pentland employees across the globe chose to support low-income entrepreneurs working in some of their key business areas though Lendwithcare. Pentland has established a substantial 'microloan pot' of £45,000 and regularly gives global teams the power to decide how the funding is allocated.

Unique Homestays

Unique Homestays curates a collection of extraordinary private homes across Britain and Ireland, offering experiential stays that go beyond the expected. Each home is hand-selected for its uniqueness and ability to inspire guests – whether rooted in history, situated in a beautiful setting or having won awards for its architecture or design. Carefully considering which charitable projects to support, Unique Homestays made the decision to support Lendwithcare in 2025, backing our work empowering entrepreneurs in low-income countries. Through allocating £1 from every stay booked to a loan pot, Unique Homestays will help to fund small loans that will transform lives and communities around the world.

Hogan Lovells

Hogan Lovells is a global legal practice with over 40 offices worldwide that advises corporations, financial institutions, and governmental entities on critical business and legal issues globally and locally. In January 2014, Hogan Lovells' staff worldwide chose lendwithcare as their global charity of the year through their global matched giving programme, Touch. Touch is based on the belief that the firm can do more collectively than individually and partners with global charities seeking to achieve the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. Hogan Lovells supports Lendwithcare by making loans to entrepreneurs and providing the organization with pro bono legal advice.

Jimmy Choo Foundation

Jimmy Choo is a leading global luxury brand which traces its roots to a bespoke shoemaker named Jimmy Choo, based in the East End of London in the early 1990s. The Jimmy Choo Foundation partnered with Lendwithcare to unite global teams to support a shared cause from 2016 to 2018. Together, employees have loaned more than £170,000 to over 2,300 low-income entrepreneurs.

Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton is one of the world's largest professional services network of independent accounting and consulting member firms that provide assurance, tax and advisory services. Grant Thornton is one of Lendwithcare's longest standing corporate supporters. They started funding low-income entrepreneurs through Lendwithcare in 2012 and across their UK offices, around 50 teams have loaned over £70,000 to support more than 5,000 entrepreneurs in need.

Launch partner - The Co-operative

The Co-operative stands apart from other major businesses in the UK as an organisation which is owned, not by investor shareholders, but by over eight million members.

The Co-operative was the launch partner of Lendwithcare and was, between 2011 and 2014, the title sponsor. Without The Co-operative and its members’ support for Lendwithcare, we would not have grown to our current scale.

Deborah Meaden, Ambassador

Deborah Meaden is a Lendwithcare Ambassador, she travelled to Cambodia in March 2011 to see first hand how Lendwithcare can help people work their way out of poverty. Deborah met our MFI partner BORVOR and some of the fantastic entrepreneurs supported through Lendwithcare. Speaking after her visit Deborah said "I believe that providing the opportunity and framework for people to help themselves is the only sustainable way forward and I saw this very clearly on my trip to Cambodia. The people there are willing to work to repair their lives, they just need even the smallest of leg-ups to get them started."

Deborah Meaden is an entrepreneur and panelist on BBC's Dragon's Den.

Charity Engine

Launched in 2011, Charity Engine is an ingenious PC app which automatically raises money for CARE and other charities whenever a home PC is idle. It also provides huge computing power to research into cancer, malaria, climate change and COVID-19. Download it here.

Bluefrog Fundraising

A Third Sector specialist agency, Bluefrog Fundraising proposed the concept for a peer to peer lending site to CARE International UK in 2008  Bluefrog's fundraising and digital expertise, along with CARE's decades long work in the field of microfinance resulted in the launch of Lendwithcare in 2010.