Strategic Initiatives – The Foyle Foundation

From time to time the Foundation will embark upon strategic initiatives where, following research, the Foundation will fund a programme of activities or a special scheme or project to address specific concerns and which will achieve higher overall impact than single grants would have made. Examples include the following: Devised and administered by The Poetry Society, The Foyle Foundation has invested in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year since November 2001 as the national poetry competition open to young writers aged between 11 and 17 years. Since 2001 our investment in the awards has totalled £2.23M, including a major legacy grant of £500K, enabling the competition to develop, fulfil its potential and become one of the premier literary awards in the country. Each year 100 winners (85 commendations and 15 overall winners) are selected from over 11,000 entries to receive their awards at the annual prize giving event on National Poetry Day.