The Future Fund does not have any specific diversity and inclusion targets but it is open to a broad range of matched funders across the UK to achieve as diverse a distribution of the funds as possible within the parameters of a scheme based on simple eligibility criteria.
The Future Fund will record the gender mix and ethnicity mix of the senior team of each company at the point of application and the region in which they are based, and publish these as anonymised, aggregated statistics.
The Future Fund has signed HM Treasury’s Investing in Women Code which is designed for all organisations that finance entrepreneurs. The Code commits organisations to advancing female entrepreneurship.
The Future Fund will also encourage matched funders to sign the Investing in Women Code, in order to support diversity in the equity ecosystem. The list of signatories to the Code is held by HM Treasury and is available from the HM Treasury website.