Our expenditure is divided into four categories:

• Communities Support: Money spent at the foundations to support communities, such as resource development and supporting joint fundraising.
• Direct support to communities: Money channelled through the foundations to communities. We are aiming to have 85% of funds raised go to communities over the coming years. In this phase of our development, where we focus on building sufficient capacity to support communities, this is not yet possible.
• Knowledge Exchange and Education: Costs incurred on the ERC Knowledge Exchange Platform and our educational offering, including dedicated staff-costs.
• Overheads: Costs incurred outside the above categories, such as salaries of the directors, fundraising, general IT costs, office and travel costs, bank and payment-service provider costs, and finally accountancy and bookkeeping costs.