Become an Angel
Use your success, experience and networks to help charities go further
Angels’ Den gives entrepreneurs, philanthropists and business leaders the opportunity to support exceptional charities in a more personal, practical
and powerful way.
As an Angel, you are not simply donating to a cause. You are backing ambitious charities with funding, belief, experience and connections that can help unlock their next stage of growth.
At each Angels’ Den event, selected charities pitch live to a panel of Angels and an invited audience. Every finalist has a clear funding ask, a compelling story and the potential to create meaningful change with the right support. Your role as an Angel is to listen, engage and help decide how funding is allocated on the night. But the opportunity does not have to end there. Many Angels go on to champion the charities they meet, opening doors, sharing insight and helping them build momentum long after the event has finished.
Angels’ Den is philanthropy with purpose, energy and connection.
Why become an Angel?
Angels’ Den was created for people who want their giving to be more active and more impactful.
Many charities have brilliant ideas, strong leadership and deep knowledge of the communities they serve. What they often need is access: access to funding, networks, expertise, confidence and people who believe in them. That is where Angels can make a real difference.
By becoming an Angel, you can use your own success and experience to help charities overcome barriers, reach new audiences and turn potential into progress. Your support could help a charity launch a new project, scale a proven service, reach more people, strengthen its infrastructure or take a bold next step. And because you hear directly from the charities themselves, you get to understand the people, passion and impact behind each ask.
What Angels bring
Angels bring more than financial support. They bring the kind of practical insight, entrepreneurial thinking and real-world experience that can be transformational for charities.
As an Angel, you may be able to help by offering:
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Your financial commitment contributes directly to the funding awarded to charity finalists on the night.
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Your business knowledge, leadership experience and strategic perspective can help charities think differently and grow with confidence.
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A single introduction can change what is possible. Angels can open doors to potential funders, partners, advisers, supporters and opportunities.
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By championing a charity’s work, Angels can help raise its profile and give others the confidence to support it too.
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Sometimes the most powerful thing an Angel can offer is confidence: the sense that someone experienced sees the value in what a charity is doing and wants to stand behind it.
How it works
Let us know that you are interested in becoming an Angel for an upcoming Angels’ Den event.
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Register your interest
We’ll talk you through the opportunity
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Our team will explain how the event works, what being an Angel involves and how your contribution will support the finalist charities.
Local charities apply to Focus Foundation and are reviewed through a due diligence process. A shortlist of finalists is selected for the live event.
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Charities are selected
Finalists receive pitch coaching
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Every charity finalist is supported with professional presentation coaching to help them define their ask and prepare a clear, focused two-minute pitch.
On the night, you will hear directly from the charity finalists as they pitch their organisation, project and funding need. Angels can ask questions after each pitch.
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Attend the live event
At the end of the evening, funding is allocated across the finalists. Every charity finalist receives funding.
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Funding is awarded
After the event, Angels may choose to stay connected with the charities they support, offering introductions, advice, advocacy or further support where appropriate.
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The impact continues
What makes Angels’ Den different?
Angels’ Den is not a traditional fundraising event. It is a live, high-energy giving experience built around storytelling, connection and practical philanthropy. The charities are carefully selected. The pitches are short and focused. The funding is meaningful. The conversations are real.
For Angels, it offers a direct route to discover inspiring charities and understand exactly how your support could make a difference.
For charities, it creates a rare opportunity to access funding, visibility and people who can help them grow.
The result is a model where giving becomes more engaged, more personal and often more powerful.
Angels are typically entrepreneurs, business leaders, philanthropists or individuals who want to use their resources and experience to create lasting social impact.
You do not need to have supported charities in this way before. What matters is that you are willing to engage with the process, listen to the charities, commit meaningful funding and explore how your wider experience or networks could help.
Angels’ Den is particularly suited to people who:
Want their giving to feel more direct and personal
Are interested in backing high-impact charities
Can contribute meaningful funding
Have business, entrepreneurial or leadership experience
Enjoy meeting passionate people with bold ideas
Want to use their networks and influence for good
Are open to building longer-term relationships with charities
Who can become an Angel?
Why your support matters
Charities are often closest to the solutions their communities need, but they may not always have access to the people, funding or platforms that could help them grow.
Angels’ Den helps bridge that gap.
By becoming an Angel, you are helping to create a space where brilliant charities are seen, heard and backed. You are giving them the chance to tell their story to people who can make things happen.
Your support could give a charity the confidence, funding and connections to reach more people, respond to greater need or take a step they could not take alone.
That is the power of becoming an Angel.
Ready to become an Angel?
If you are looking for a more meaningful way to give, Angels’ Den offers a direct and personal opportunity to support charities with the potential to create lasting change.
Become an Angel and help ambitious charities access the funding, confidence and connections they need to go further.