The business side of Redwood earns its living by doing good work for people and organisations. The foundation side exists for the work that should never depend on whether someone can pay: giving people a start, a mentor, a second chance and a stage for their story. It keeps the whole of Redwood honest about why it exists.

Everything that comes in through the foundation goes to the foundation’s work. [Exact legal name, registration and any tax status after the notary has confirmed them.]

Community-funded tracks for students who want to develop themselves academically and for young professionals who want to learn on the job. Institutions and corporations can offer a position, offer mentorship or fund a scholarship. Individuals can fund a scholarship, give monthly towards someone’s education, or mentor. [How a candidate is chosen and how much a scholarship covers: set by the foundation board.]

We mentor children and young people from primary school to higher education, and youth and adults in detention. We help them find the balance between school and private life, we teach life skills, and we prepare them for a life of personal development. We do mediation where a conflict needs it, and we help teachers deal with students who carry more than a student should.

Every volunteer is screened, and every programme runs under a written safeguarding policy and an agreement with the school or institution. [Described here once they exist.]

Ordinary people with extraordinary stories. We make documentaries about lives that touch many parts of the community, and so tell a piece of local history nobody put in a textbook. The films grow into live evenings: a premiere, the person on stage in a live interview, questions from the audience, a chance to meet them afterwards.

[First story, place and date.] Know someone whose story should be told? Tell us.

The foundation could also run a crowdfunding platform with no profit in mind, for ideas and projects with a community, social or sustainability heart that need exposure and funding. Have an idea or a project that helps people and the planet? Tell us what you are working on, and we will tell you when the podium opens. [Status: planned. Whether this appears on the site before it exists is an open question.]

A gift to the foundation stays with the foundation. It never buys a membership, a discount or a say in the business.

We will publish what we receive and what it does, once a year, in plain words. [Only once the board has approved the promise.]