Fran Perrin, OBE, is the Founder and Director of the Indigo Trust which she established in 1999.

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Fran is also founder of 360Giving, a campaign which supports grantmakers to publish their grants data openly, to understand their data, and to use the data to create online tools that make grant-making more effective.In its five years, 360Giving has changed the status quo for funding in the UK. With support from 360Giving, the UK’s leading funders are now publishing data about their grants in the 360Giving Data Standard. Thanks to their collaborative efforts, over £33bn of grants data has now been made open, meaning it can be accessed, compared and analysed with free tools such as GrantNav and 360Insights.

 

Fran was formerly an advisor at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit,  in the UK Government for both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.  She is a Board Member of New Philanthropy Capital and The Sainsbury Archive. In the past, she has also served as a Chair of the Board of Publish What You Fund and has been a member of DfID’s International Development Sector Transparency Panel.

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In 2012, Fran was named Philanthropist of the Year by Spears and in 2016 jointly received the Open Data Institute’s first ‘Women in Data’ award from Sir Tim Berners-Lee for her role in 360 Giving. She received an OBE in the 2020 Queen’s Honours List for services to charity during the Covid pandemic. In 2021 she received the Global Philanthropic Lifetime Contribution to Philanthropy award.